installing GD

can someone please explain to me how to install the GD extension into php 4.

How do I do it?

I was also wondering the same thing

I am also watching this topic - The manual they give you is TERRIBLE
I have no idea where to start!

lol lots of people looking for this, i am to!

The best advice i could find was just an instruction to
apt-get install php4-gd
but that didn't work.

Someone told me to install apache2, so i might give that a go.

I don't think installing apache2 will help. GD is like an add-on mod.

Open php.in file.

scroll down more than half way and you will find a list of extensions starting with a semicolon. The extension for GD you will find is

;extension=php_gd2.dll

Now remove the semicolon at the start of the above line and save the php.ini file.

Restart your webserver. Thats it. GD is ready.

You can check the installation by running the
phpinfo() function.

yea, but when you download it, where to you extract the files to?
If you're using EasyPHP, which file is the settings? PHP.INI-DISC or PHP.INI-RECOMMENDED?
And, I've done all that, tried both of the settings but it won't display it in my PHPINFO page!

too bad that explanation is only for the windows php version.

for windows, like he said. Uncomment the gd2 extension.

Then where you have your php directory (if you dont know check in your php ini)

there will be a folder called extensions and add it into there (if its not there already)

I use for production wamp5. It comes with all the extensions and all you gotta do is uncheck the ones you want... It works perfect.


However

Installing extensions for unix I dont know. I have cpanel and you can build apache with the extensions that you want, It works however I have another server that does not have apache, and I would like to figure out how to install it...

Ah well. I'll be watching this topic for more replies

I was always under the impression that PHP under Unix-like operating systems needed to be compiled specially for GD support. At least http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php says that is the case.

At http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.php is a slew of instructions that describes how to compile and install PHP on unix systems. This might seem scary and might cause you to learn things, and it might not even work the first time .

The apt-get instruction mentioned above applies only if you have the 'Advanced Packaging Tool' on your system, which might not be true. (Whether or not it is there depends on what distribution/operating system you are running -- the APT was originally developed for Debian.)

If you're on an RPM based system, you can just get the php-gd rpm, or "yum install php-gd" - I'm pretty sure you can also "apt-get install php-gd" on apt systems.

Outside of those, I'm thinking it's be best to follow the directions at the links Sam provided above.

after having read a book on LAMP, and having understood how to install php. It all makes clear sence now


Also. For those of you who are using cpanel/whm. In WHM just scroll down to the bottom and click on update apache. Then check off GD library and it will install with ease.

What about for cPanel users? There is no "Update Apache" link anywhere

its not in CPanel for accounts, its in the whm

if you have your own dedicated host and/or you have a root login to your webhost manager then its there on the big list to the left

http://www.yourdomain.com/whm

on linux you can try adding:

to your scripts.
It's worked for me in a few instances where GD is compiled as a seperate module