imagecreatetruecolor parse error

brian_mather

I'm no doubt missing something obvious but I can't get even the simplest example of imagecreate to work. this code:
<?php
header ("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreatetruecolor(50, 100)
__ or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5, "A Simple Text String", $text_color);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>
generates this error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /Library/WebServer/Documents/test/php_button/simple_image.php on line 3

example is unmodified from it's original author here:
http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.imagecreatetruecolor.php

platofrm details:
Max OS 10.3.9
php 5.0.4
according to phpinfo:
configured ... --with-gd' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/php5' '--with-png-dir=/usr/local/php5' ...

gd bundled (2.0.28 compatible)
gif, jpg, png all enabled.

I'm at a loss and would appreciate anyone explaining what I'm missing.

-brian

rachel2004

Just to be clear, I had to clean up some underscore symbols that were either in your origianl code or somehow got worked in when you posted. This is what worked for me:

<?php
header ("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreatetruecolor(50, 100)
    or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5, "A Simple Text String", $text_color);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

If that snippet of code doesn't work when you try it, I stronly believe it has to the fact that you've pointed to your php5 directory as the source of your jpeg and png directories. You can go about grabbing the source for either of them from the links provided at the php manual or you can just grab everything from Marc Liyagne's site

I tested the snippet on my PB (OS X 10.3.9) with PHP 5.03

brian_mather

interesting. I installed php from the binary available at Marc's site - http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/ . Must I rebuild it (and gd?) from source to ensure things get put where I need them?

Further confusing to me is that my hosting provider IX webhosting enables PHP and once posted remotely the same behavior is exhibited that I see locally.

From phpinfo() on that machine:
with-jpeg-dir=/usr' ... '--with-gd' '--with-ttf' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--with-png-dir=/usr' ...

gd version bundled (2.0.28 compatible) gif, jpe, png again all enabled.

brian_mather

fugured this out. rachel2004 was exactly right that there were garbage characters in the original code I posted. Didn't think that was the issue because I again cut and pasted the code she supplied and hit the same issue. After eanbling the view of invisible characters in bbedit and knowing what to look for, I saw the issue. Removing them seems to have made all the difference.

I have proof of concept and now need to figure out exactly how I should use these tools.

thanks.

rachel2004

Brian,

Good to hear it. If you can deal with the cost, you may want to look into Zend Studio. I use it under Windows XP when at work and under OS X when i'm on my PowerBook. Works well under OS X.

http://www.zend.com/store/products/zend-studio/index.php