GD2 Installed but won't work

[serblowa]

Hello,

 

I'm fairly new to PHP, and I'm trying to get the GD2 library working but I am having no luck. I have installed the library, and when I run phpinfo(); it shows that it is up and running, and all file types are supported. However, when I run the following code snippet nothing is displayed:

 

<?php

  $im = @imagecreate (200, 100) or die ( "cannot create a new gd image.");

  $background_color = imagecolorallocate ($im, 240, 240, 240);

  $border_color = imagecolorallocate ($im, 50, 50, 50);

  $text_color = imagecolorallocate ($im, 233, 14, 91);

  imagerectangle($im,0,0,199,99,$border_color);

  imagestring ($im, 5, 10, 40, "a simple text string", $text_color );

  header ("content-type: image/png");

  imagepng ($im);

?>

 

I have been struggling with this for a couple of weeks now with no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[scootstah]

It works fine for me. Try taking the @ out of @imagecreate, and make sure error reporting is on.

error_reporting(-1);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);

[serblowa]

Well I enabled error logging and removed the @ sign, but still no luck. I entered some obviously wrong code and the error logger did show an error. However, I'm not seeing any errors when I execute the code segment above. I tried opening the script in several browsers, and I did find that Firefox threw the following error:

 

Error: Image corrupt or truncated: http://192.168.0.176/simplegraph

Source File: http://192.168.0.176/simplegraph

Line: 0

 

 

[serblowa]

So still no luck. I have tried some sample code online that appears to work. I have tried calling my php script from an html file and I still can't get any kind of image to display. So I am wondering if there is a minimum system requirement to get GD2 to work properly. I am using an old computer (Celeron 2Ghz with 256MB of RAM), and I am wondering if GD2 just needs more resources. I tried looking for some documentation on this and found nothing.

 

Does anyone know if this could possibly be the problem?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Temporarily comment out the header(... ...); line of code and browse directly to the url of the .php file (i.e. don't use an <img src='' tag in a html page.)

 

The URL you posted doesn't have any extension. Are you using some url rewriting that perhaps doesn't work? Does any .php code work on your localhost system?