Re: imagecreatefromgif fails for a valid image

Hi Tijnema It does appear to be a GIF. See output from file command below: for now, to get by I have copied over a libgd.so verion from a working centos installation over /usr/lib/libgd.so thanks, thushara >> file >> /home/thushw/mocha_src/LiveMocha/trunk/src/wwwroot/app/webroot/img/new/button-middle.gif /home/thushw/mocha_src/LiveMocha/trunk/src/wwwroot/app/webroot/img/new/button-middle.gif: GIF image data, version 89a, 1 x 28 On 9/24/07, Tijnema <tijnema@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/24/07, thushw <thushw@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I get a failure in creating a gif. php error log shows this: > > > > Sep 24 00:25:47 thushw-laptop apache2: PHP Warning: imagecreatefromgif() [ > > function.imagecreatefromgif function.imagecreatefromgif ]: > > > > '/home/thushw/mocha_src/LiveMocha/trunk/src/wwwroot/app/webroot/img/new/button-middle.gif' > > is not a valid GIF file in > > /home/thushw/mocha_src/LiveMocha/trunk/src/wwwroot/app/webroot/button.php on > > line 30 > > > > the gif can be viewed by gthumb. it seems ok. > > > > the problem is only for some gifs. Most gifs, all pngs, jpegs that i've > > tested so far work. > > > > i'm running php5 on ubuntu (uname -a : Linux thushw-laptop 2.6.20.3-ubuntu1 > > #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 11:26:58 PDT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux) > > > > phpinfo shows: > > > > gd > > GD Support enabled > > GD Version 2.0 or higher > > FreeType Support enabled > > FreeType Linkage with freetype > > FreeType Version 2.2.1 > > T1Lib Support enabled > > GIF Read Support enabled > > GIF Create Support enabled > > JPG Support enabled > > PNG Support enabled > > WBMP Support enabled > > > > from what i've read so far, seems like i need gd lib >=2.0.28. from phpinfo > > output it is not clear if i have the right version. i use: apt-get install > > php5-gd to install gd > > > > these are the files i think are of importance: > > > > /usr/lib/libgd.so.2.0.34 > > /usr/lib/libgd.so.2 > > > > [the second is a symlink to the first] > > > > >> ls -l /usr/lib/libgd.so.2 > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2007-09-24 00:25 /usr/lib/libgd.so.2 -> > > libgd.so.2.0.34 > > > > how do i debug this further? any help greatly appreciated. this problem > > doesn't appear with the gd we have installed on our centos servers. seems to > > happen only on my ubuntu install. > > > > thushara > > > > Hello Thushara: > > My guess is that your .gif file isn't actually a GIF image (but jpeg, bmp,...). > > If you have access to SSH/command line try running > file /home/thushw/mocha_src/LiveMocha/trunk/src/wwwroot/app/webroot/img/new/button-middle.gif > and see if it's really a gif, if you don't have access to above, open > the image with any text editor, and see what the first 3 letters say.. > If it's an GIF image, it says GIF (GIF89 probably) > if it's an JPEG image, it says something like ÿØÿà > if it's an BMP image, it says BM (BM6) > and if it's an PNG image, it says ‰PNG > > I hope this helps you.. > > Tijnema >