note 21351 modified in function.imagecreatefromgif by cece

Since gif support is removed from the more recent GD libraries, you can still use it via an external program. I've read somewhere about using ImageMagick and I tried myself but it's a quite big package and needs the X11 libs which are not available in some servers. The other option I found is to use a little prog "gif2png" http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/gif2png/ to convert gif files to png ones. It works under Unix and dos/win32/winnt and is very straightforward. If you need to modify an user uploaded gif file to save it into your site just use this: $path=$_FILES["photo"]["tmp_name"]; passthru("/usr/bin/gif2png -d -O ".$path); $src_img=imagecreatefrompng( dirname($path)."/".basename($path, ".gif").".png"); This will convert the gif to a png and delete the gif file, then it will open the png with the GDlib so you can perform any operation on it. --was-- Since gif support is removed from the more recent GD libraries, you can still use it via an external program. I've read somewhere about using ImageMagick and I tried myself but it's a quite big package and needs the X11 libs which are not available in some servers. The other option I found is to use a little prog "gif2png" http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/gif2png/ to convert gif files to png ones. It works under Unix and dos/win32/winnt and is very straightforward. If you need to modify an user uploaded gif file to save it into your site just use this: $path=$_FILES["photo"]["tmp_name"]; passthru("/usr/bin/gif2png -d -O ".$path); $src_img=imagecreatefrompng( basedir($path)."/".basename($path, ".gif").".png"); This will convert the gif to a png and delete the gif file, then it will open the png with the GDlib so you can perform any operation on it. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagecreatefromgif.php