GD configuration with php 4.4.0 and windows.

[i11uminati]

I've tried all the tutorials online concerning the GD configuration and I cannot get it to work no matter what I do. So far I've uncommented the line extension=php_gd2.dll and changed the extensions directory to "C:\home_server\php\". I was told I shouldn't have to download the dll because it already comes with my php installation. Is this correct because I cannot find any dlls or extension folders?

Can someone please give me, or point me to, detailed instructions for my php installation? Thank you.

[Maiku]

Are you using Apache? Did you copy the php_gd2.dll (is that what it's called?) extention into your Apache Group/Apache2 folder?

If there are no dlls in your extention folder, download this, and put the contents in the extentions folder.

Here is a decent tutorial for setting up PHP5 with Apache 2: http://www.webmasterstop.com/86.html. It has some spelling errors when it lists the dll files to copy however, but you should be able to figure it out 🙂

[tamill]

Hey
what version of php u have. if u have the php 4.3 (and greater) the gd library comes with the php bundle.
all u have to is

go to the php.ini file and take the semicolon from php_gd2.dll

it will be similar to this

;Windows Extensions
;Note that MySQL and ODBC support is now built in, so no dll is needed for it.
;
PHPExt
;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 (check out the semicolon is taken)

this will enable the gd library.

if u wanna check whether gd is enabled

write a simple name sampe.php

<?php
echo phpinfo();
?>

run the file in http://localhost/sample.php

the html document will show u the details
hope this helps u.