getting and loading gd

[habbardone]

Hi
I am running php 4.3.6 on Apachie 1.3.29 on my Winows 98 v2

Aparently I need to have gd so i cam manipulate image files

Does anyone know the best place to
get this patch and how to apply it.?

does it take much disk space ?

Thanks
David

[planetsim]

Take a read here http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php

GD is bundled however it is not installed so that it will work on Windows

In Windows, you'll include the GD2 DLL php_gd2.dll as an extension in php.ini. The GD1 DLL php_gd.dll was removed in PHP 4.3.2. Also note that the preferred truecolor image functions, such as imagecreatetruecolor(), require GD2.

[habbardone]

Hi , I still can not use the gd !

My php.ini includes this :

; The directory under which PHP opens the script using /~username used only
; if nonempty.
user_dir = "c:\web"

; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside.
extension_dir = "c:\php\extensions"

and ....

;Windows Extensions
;Note that MySQL and ODBC support is now built in, so no dll is needed for it.
;
;extension=php_bz2.dll
;extension=php_cpdf.dll
;extension=php_crack.dll
;extension=php_curl.dll
;extension=php_db.dll
;extension=php_dba.dll
;extension=php_dbase.dll
;extension=php_dbx.dll
;extension=php_domxml.dll
;extension=php_exif.dll
;extension=php_fdf.dll
;extension=php_filepro.dll

extension=php_gd2.dll

;extension=php_gettext.dll
;extension=php_hyperwave.dll
;extension=php_iconv.dll
;extension=php_ifx.dll

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and I checked that the php_gd2.dll is in the extentions directory.

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and my php program starts like this but fatally errors at line 15:

which is :
$im = imageCreate(50,50);

<?PHP

error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);

/
simplepng.php
Generates a 50 x 50 pixel png of the color passed in parameter 'color'
/

// convert guaranteed valid hex value to array of integers
$imColor = hex2int(validHexColor($_REQUEST['color']));

// Step 1. Create a new blank image
$im = imageCreate(50,50);

// Step 2. Set background to 'color'
$background = imageColorAllocate($im, $imColor['r'], $imColor['g'], $imColor['b']);

I don't know anything about but from what I have read, this should be working !

Can anyone help a bit more ?

Thanks.