Hi Experts,

I recently moved to PHP from ASP for the main reason of great free resources available in PHP.

One of the reasons is the free image resizing utility using "GD graphics library"

I found that this library is normally shipped with PHP but not enabled in php.ini (it's commented)

On windows 2000 I just uncommented "extension=php_gd2.dll" in php.ini file and worked great.

The problem is I have hosted my files in a web hosting company server running on Linux server

They say that they cannot enable this and adding that the third party dlls or dlls other than standard OS requirements will not present in the server.

I told them that this is coming with the PHP package, but still they don't agree

As it's on the linux server I can't understand how it works as I don't have linux server to test.

You experts need to help me on this to give a valid reason to our host to enable this

Thanks for your help
Ahmad
Hong Kong

    There is a lot of hosts out there who have php installed on their servers, but don't run important libraries like imap and GD. They are realy easy to install, but since the server admins don't have enough knowledge about php they often don't know how.

    I would change host, since it is often impossible, or it will take to long time, to make them change!

    Take a look at all the cool GD scripts in hotscripts.com and http://www.boutell.com/gd/

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