[Resolved] PHP:GD and Windows.

[Azkoyen]

Hi All, new member, first post and all that, and I'm of course having problems with GD. I get the feeling I'm not the first one either!

Here's my situation:

Windows 2000 Advanced Server
PHP v4.3.1 running on IIS v5.0

I've read that GD is supposed to be bundled with v4.3.1 of PHP, but after searching the directory and not finding it I downloaded php_gd.dll from some site. I see that the php.ini mentions a php_gd2.dll, but I haven't been able to find it anywhere.

Anyways, I put the php_gd.dll into my c:\php\extensions directory, modified my php.ini extension_dir line to point to c:\php\extensions, uncommented the extension=php_gd.dll line and put the dll in the extensions directory. No luck sadly, and restarting the web server doesn't do anything to help. I still get the message 'Unknown(); Unable to load dynamic llibrary 'c:\PHP\extensions\php>gd.dll' - The specified procedure could not be found.'

Sadly I don't have a C compiler so downloading the GD source files is useless to me. Does anyone know where I might download php_gd2.dll? Does anyone know a fix to this problem?

Just one more question, anyone know of a good free SQL Server that works well with PHP? I'm totally new to all this, so it'd just be for use on my local machine.

Thanks in Advance,

Az.

p.s. This is also posted in the Windows forum, sorry for the double post but I wasn't sure where it should go...

[Azkoyen]

I saw that the new version of PHP (4.3.2) is supposed to have the php_gd2.dll bundled with it, but when I installed it there was STILL no gd2 dll. I searched around and found the dll on this page, and when it's put in the extensions directory everything works fine. I can't be sure if this is the correct version though, so I'll just have to hope and pray...

[hi-liter]

if you installed PHP via the installer package, it doesn't come w/ any extensions, you can download the windows binary zip package from PHP.net. unzip this, and copy the "extensions" directory to C:\PHP

then modify php.ini as follows:

change

extension_dir = ./

to

extension_dir = ./extensions

change

;extension=php_gd.dll

to

extension=php_gd.dll

maybe if you installed the binary, you'd only have to uncomment the extension in php.ini? not sure.

depending, you may want to upgrade to lastest version of PHP and just reinstall it, then copy the extensions over and edit the php.ini...

hth.

[Azkoyen]

As usual my problem was caused by me not reading all the info on the download page.

Thanks hi-liter!

[stolzyboy]

Originally posted by Azkoyen

Just one more question, anyone know of a good free SQL Server that works well with PHP? I'm totally new to all this, so it'd just be for use on my local machine.

ever heard of mysql

or

postgresql

[stolzyboy]

btw, delete your other post in the windows help forum