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PHP GD Image question....

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 4:37 pm
by JPlush76
What can you do if your host will not install the GD library for images? are there any alternatives that you can FTP up?

thank ya!

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 7:54 pm
by McGruff
Not as far as I know.

http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk have free webspace with GD - but it ain't too fast as a server.

Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 3:28 am
by pootergeist
The other primary image manipulation alternatives (the Gimp and ImageMagick) are both accessed through the shell, so I'd figure there's even less likelihood of your host having them.

Unfortunately a lot of hosts either disable or just ignore GD due to scripters misusing it (the functions available are rather resource hungry if not used properly) and some memory overflows in older builds. Thomas and crew have done a great job fixing the memory leaks though, especially in builds since 2.0.2. Just have to educate the scripters to write more optimized code with cacheable functionality.

Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 3:33 am
by []InTeR[]
Won't dl() do the trick?