Re: PHP GD library installing

Quoting Robin Vickery <robinv@gmail.com>:

On 10/04/2008, Thijs Lensselink <dev@lenss.nl> wrote:

Quoting Robin Vickery <robinv@gmail.com>:

On 10/04/2008, Thijs Lensselink <dev@lenss.nl> wrote:

Quoting Luca Paolella <luca.paolella@gmail.com>:

How do I install/activate the GD library with my existing PHP version? I'm quite sure it isn't already, since I got this error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function imagecreate() in

/Volumes/Data/Users/luca/Library/WebServer/Documents/reloadTest/image.php on

line 6 Please forgive my ignorance, and thanks for your help

On windows it's as easy as downloading the dll from pecl4win.php.net.. But from your directory structure i presume you have some sort of *nix system. So you have to reconfigure and rebuild PHP.

Ouch... first try installing the php gd module through whatever package manager your *nix distribution uses. For instance, on Ubuntu linux you'd do: sudo aptitude install php5-gd

Ouch? That's exactly what i added to my post "Make sure GD is installed on the system."

Making sure GD is installed on the system is a very sensible thing to do. The "ouch" was aimed at the suggestion that if you're on a *nix system, the course of action is to recompile php. Normally these days you'd just install the gd module (the equivalent of your windows dll) through your package manager.

My bad! :) I always compile everything from source....