What is the best way to draw an ASCII image using PHP?

When drawing an ASCII image using PHP, the best way is to create a multi-dimensional array representing the image, where each element corresponds to a character in the ASCII image. Then, loop through the array and print out the characters to display the ASCII image. 

<?php

// Define the ASCII image as a multi-dimensional array
$ascii_image = [
    ['*', '*', '*', '*', '*'],
    ['*', ' ', ' ', ' ', '*'],
    ['*', '*', '*', '*', '*'],
    ['*', ' ', ' ', ' ', '*'],
    ['*', '*', '*', '*', '*']
];

// Loop through the array and print out the characters
foreach ($ascii_image as $row) {
    foreach ($row as $char) {
        echo $char;
    }
    echo "\n";
}
?>

Keywords

ASCII art image generation PHP GD library text manipulation character encoding

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