(Advanced) PHP generates verification code program code

//首先开启session
session_start();
//定义前台显示验证码长&宽
$image_width = 120;
$image_height = 40;
$characters_on_image = 6;
$font = './monofont.ttf';
//The characters that can be used in the CAPTCHA code.
//avoid confusing characters (l 1 and i for example)
$possible_letters = '23456789bcdfghjkmnpqrstvwxyz';
$random_dots = 10;
$random_lines = 30;
$captcha_text_color="0x142864";
$captcha_noice_color = "0x142864";
//定义要生成验证码的字符串
$code = '';
$i = 0;
while ($i < $characters_on_image) { 
$code .= substr($possible_letters, mt_rand(0, strlen($possible_letters)-1), 1);
$i++;
}
$font_size = $image_height * 0.75;
$image = @imagecreate($image_width, $image_height);
/* setting the background, text and noise colours here */
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255);
$arr_text_color = hexrgb($captcha_text_color);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($image, $arr_text_color[&#39;red&#39;], 
        $arr_text_color[&#39;green&#39;], $arr_text_color[&#39;blue&#39;]);
$arr_noice_color = hexrgb($captcha_noice_color);
$image_noise_color = imagecolorallocate($image, $arr_noice_color[&#39;red&#39;], 
        $arr_noice_color[&#39;green&#39;], $arr_noice_color[&#39;blue&#39;]);
/* generating the dots randomly in background */
for( $i=0; $i<$random_dots; $i++ ) {
imagefilledellipse($image, mt_rand(0,$image_width),
 mt_rand(0,$image_height), 2, 3, $image_noise_color);
}
/* generating lines randomly in background of image */
for( $i=0; $i<$random_lines; $i++ ) {
imageline($image, mt_rand(0,$image_width), mt_rand(0,$image_height),
 mt_rand(0,$image_width), mt_rand(0,$image_height), $image_noise_color);
}
/* create a text box and add 6 letters code in it */
$textbox = imagettfbbox($font_size, 0, $font, $code); 
$x = ($image_width - $textbox[4])/2;
$y = ($image_height - $textbox[5])/2;
imagettftext($image, $font_size, 0, $x, $y, $text_color, $font , $code);
/* Show captcha image in the page html page */
header(&#39;Content-Type: image/jpeg&#39;);// defining the image type to be shown in browser widow
imagejpeg($image);//showing the image
imagedestroy($image);//destroying the image instance
//设置session，做验证
$_SESSION[&#39;6_letters_code&#39;] = $code;
function hexrgb ($hexstr)
{
  $int = hexdec($hexstr);
  return array("red" => 0xFF & ($int >> 0x10),
               "green" => 0xFF & ($int >> 0x8),
               "blue" => 0xFF & $int);
}