How do I install GD Graphic library on my webhost?

vigour

I talked to my webhost and they said that I can run GD on their servers, but that it was not installed. Then they gave me two links and refused to help me more then that. This is the two links:

http://www.boutell.com/gd/

http://foks.se/gallery2/

Can someone please tell me what I'm supposed to do to get GD working on my domain?

I did a var_dump and got this info:

array(12) { ["GD Version"]=> string(27) "bundled (2.0.34 compatible)" ["FreeType Support"]=> bool(true) ["FreeType Linkage"]=> string(13) "with freetype" ["T1Lib Support"]=> bool(true) ["GIF Read Support"]=> bool(true) ["GIF Create Support"]=> bool(true) ["JPG Support"]=> bool(true) ["PNG Support"]=> bool(true) ["WBMP Support"]=> bool(true) ["XPM Support"]=> bool(true) ["XBM Support"]=> bool(true) ["JIS-mapped Japanese Font Support"]=> bool(false) }

jazz_snob

I talked to my webhost and they said that I can run GD on their servers, but that it was not installed.

If its not installed, how'd you get that var_dump?

Don't you need root access to install it? I don't know how else you could do it. You'd have to have access to php executable's configuration to turn on the gd module.

IMHO, any decent host with php comes w/ GD already. I'd switch hosts. Seriously.

If you do have root access the best bet is thru the package maintainer for the OS (rpm or .deb files). Thats why if I'm ever root on a machine I make sure its Debian-based so I can just use "apt-get install" and I'm done.

vigour

I talked to the support again but another guy this time. He said that GD and GD2 is already installed and that I don't need to do anything. Bad support I think...

I just tested this example code but nothing happens.

<?php

// example1.php

// set the HTTP header type to PNG
header("Content-type: image/png"); 

// set the width and height of the new image in pixels
$width = 350;
$height = 360;

// create a pointer to a new true colour image
$im = ImageCreateTrueColor($width, $height); 

// sets background to red
$red = ImageColorAllocate($im, 255, 0, 0); 
ImageFillToBorder($im, 0, 0, $red, $red);

// send the new PNG image to the browser
ImagePNG($im); 

// destroy the reference pointer to the image in memory to free up resources
ImageDestroy($im); 

?>

jazz_snob;10898925 wrote:
If its not installed, how'd you get that var_dump?

Don't you need root access to install it? I don't know how else you could do it. You'd have to have access to php executable's configuration to turn on the gd module.

IMHO, any decent host with php comes w/ GD already. I'd switch hosts. Seriously.

If you do have root access the best bet is thru the package maintainer for the OS (rpm or .deb files). Thats why if I'm ever root on a machine I make sure its Debian-based so I can just use "apt-get install" and I'm done.

ingemars

Hi,

To verify that everything is installed correctly make a online php file with a call to phpinfo() and run it from the server at the ISP.

You would then get get A LOT of information, about the system the ISP has.

I just saw that you probably used PNG file types, and sometimes (most of the time) the ISP would have to have special libraries in addition to GD/GD2 to support PNG (and some other grapics file formats).

phpinfo() tells you most anything you want to know about the ISPs system.

Also, check the logs for your website, you often get hints at least at what line of code you would start having problems.

Hope this helps a bit.

IngemarS