[RESOLVED] php 5; GD library missing?

leatherback

Hi,

In my scripts I seem to be missing GD librar y suport?
(Error: imagecreatetruecolor...) when I check php_info() I do not see the GD library in the list. In php.ini however I have enabled:

extension=php_gd2.dll

Am I missing something obvious (In the ext. folder the php_gd2.dll is available).

bradgrafelman

Where is this php.ini file located? Does phpinfo() show the correct path to it? Have you enabled "display_startup_errors" and restarted your webserver?

leatherback

Hi Brad,

Thanks! That helped a lot! The path was not pointing to the right folder (exts instead of ext). The display_startup_errors was off, when I switched it to on, a whole array of files popped up.

I modified the path, which solved it for most files. However..
php_mbstring.dll and php_exif.dll can still not be found.

I added both the php install directory ad the extension folder to the system PATHS and they are both in the ext folder. I tried copying them in the php main folder, but that was completely wrong: Apache died as soon as I tried to start it.

What could be happening here?

bradgrafelman

Modify your php.ini file so that the mbstring extension is loaded before the exif extension.

It's nice that the PHP developers alphabetized the extension list in the .ini file, but some extensions don't play nicely if they're not loaded before others.

EDIT: Finally found the manual page that talks about this - lookup the [man]exif[/man] page and read the warning for Windows users under the Installation heading.

leatherback

Hi Brad,

Thanks for that. That should solve it. I'll check tonight.

However, may I -in general- comment that that is just silly!?

They have it on the website for one module. Yet.. They do not provide the ini sorted in the right way.. right...

bradgrafelman

leatherback wrote:
However, may I -in general- comment that that is just silly!?

You may indeed.

I have both exif and mbstring enabled on my dev server here at home - it drove me crazy when I first went to enable exif. I read the manual page and it sorted it right away, but boy was I shaking a first or two at the PHP devs. Sure, it's nice to have an alphabetized list I suppose... but I'd rather have it out of order than all nice and neat and... nonfunctional. :p