GD module

willebanks

Howdy all,

I am setting a Photo blog so my family get visit and view(dl) pictures of the kids and such!
Everything has gone smoothly until I tried to upload some photos...I get an error message that GD module is not install. I tried to install the current version (gd.2.0.33) yet nothing seemed to happen.
I used the ./configure line command and a whole bunch of stuff went flying down the screen yet when I try phpinfo.php I can't tell if the GD module is working and I still can't upload pictures...

Here is my system info!

Fedora Core 4 Linux
Apache Server 2.0.54
PHP 5.0.4
mySql 4.1.16

Frankly I'm at a loss...I have read so much stuff yet I am confused as to how to continue...It would be a shame to get so far then have to scrap the whole thing and go to a Windows system! Any direction and/or help will be grately apprecatied!

Will Banks

Houdini

Just enable your gd2 libraries in the php.ini it should be in your apache/bin directory, and it looks like this.

;extension=php_filepro.dll
;extension=php_fribidi.dll
extension=php_gd2.dll
extension=php_gettext.dll

If there is a semicolon there then remove it, then restart your Apache server so it can read the change to your configuration, then run phpinfo() again and it should be there.

willebanks

Houdini

Thanks for the info...but I think that only work in a windows enviroment...I'm using Linux!

Houdini

To enable GD-support configure PHP --with-gd[=DIR], where DIR is the GD base install directory. To use the recommended bundled version of the GD library (which was first bundled in PHP 4.3.0), use the configure option --with-gd. GD library requires libpng and libjpeg to compile.

You said you have already downloaded the libraries, to you also have the libpng and libjpeg as stated from the quote above?

willebanks

Houdini,

Sorry this is taking so long to return a reply, I am so fustrated that I needed a break from computers for a day!

Any way from what I can tell by doing a search for "libpng" and "libjpeg" there are files and directories on my computer with various "libpng" and "libjpeg" names...the rest is a guess! I have looked all over the net and was unable to find how I am suppose it include the extension into the php.ini file! It is my belief that this is the last step...I may also have to "include" the "DIR" location of the GD module yet I can't seem to locate where that is! IT appears as if the Fedora OS may be placing everything in different directories....or I still don't have what is needed!