1 image.inc image_hex2rgba(&$hex)

Converts a hex string to RGBA (red, green, blue, alpha) integer values and tidies up the input hex color string.

Parameters

$hex: A string specifying an RGBA color in the formats: '#RGB', 'RGB', '#RGBA', 'RGBA', '#RRGGBB', 'RRGGBB', '#RRGGBBAA', 'RRGGBBAA' or '0xRRGGBBAA'. The color is passed by reference to tidy up the string for consistency.

Return value

An associative array with 'red', 'green', 'blue' and 'alpha' as keys and corresponding: color decimal integer as values or FALSE on an invalid color hex string.

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File

core/includes/image.inc, line 498
API for manipulating images.

Code

function image_hex2rgba(&$hex) {
  // Remove the leading '0x', if any (legacy).
  if (strpos($hex, '0x') === 0) {
    $hex = substr($hex, 2);
  }

  // Save a uppercase version without leading "#" for later processing.
  $hex_color = backdrop_strtoupper(ltrim($hex, '#'));

  // Normalize shorthand versions.
  // '#FA3' will become '#FFAA33', '#FA37' will become '#FFAA3377'.
  if (strlen($hex_color) <= 4) {
    $hex_color = preg_replace('|([0-9A-F])|', '\1\1', $hex_color);
  }

  // Ensure consistency for the color string.
  $hex = '#' . $hex_color;

  // Return FALSE if is not a valid hex color string.
  if (!preg_match('/^([0-9A-F]{2})([0-9A-F]{2})([0-9A-F]{2})([0-7][0-9A-F])?$/', $hex_color, $colors)) {
    return FALSE;
  }

  return array(
    'red' => hexdec($colors[1]),
    'green' => hexdec($colors[2]),
    'blue' => hexdec($colors[3]),
    'alpha' => isset($colors[4]) ? hexdec($colors[4]) : 0,
  );
}