is GD Enabled or not

[jays_rhino]

Hello, I am having some trouble with graphics support. I did not compile and install php on our server but am now in charge of managing it, and I am not sure what I am doing. I wanted to try out the graphics capabilities as I have never used this. To test it I used the following code straight from the php online manual.

header("Content-type: image/png");
$im = @imagecreate(100, 50)
   or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$background_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5,  "A Simple Text String", $text_color);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

The only output I got from it though was the following string:

‰PNG IHDRd2ûìýPLTEÿÿÿé[‘˝£eIDAT(‘cfxÄÀÃÇ ÀçÀÁÀÀÒÄ [vKÇɁ§’ ì ‡Â\6p¦)ð¸u.``iP o9ÀÙ¦Á©Ty܍¯€ã¥€ŒŠ¬ÈX&Z¸u Y¿´@¢mÂIEND®B‚

i pulled up phpinfo() and it shows the following;

GD Support enabled

GD Version bundled (2.0.28 compatible)

FreeType Support enabled

FreeType Linkage with freetype

FreeType Version 2.1.10

GIF Read Support enabled

GIF Create Support enabled

JPG Support enabled

PNG Support enabled

WBMP Support enabled

XPM Support enabled

XBM Support enabled

but I also noticed it does not show --with-gd in the configure command.

can any one tell me what I might be missing and what I need to do? I have written php code for a while but I have never been involved in the server installation of it and am at a bit of a loss. Any help our guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

the version of php is 5.0.4

[_theworks]

Hmmmm thats sounds very strange....

GD must be enabled... but its weird how your using the correct header

header("Content-type: image/png"); 

but its still only showing the png's code

have you tried using functions like [man]createimagefrompng[/man] instead of imagecreate? try doing it with an existing image see if it makes a difference

[jays_rhino]

Thank you for your quick reply!

I tried using imagecreatefrompng() with an existing image as you sugested. It gave me about 10 pages worth of PNG code.