Installing/Integrating GD with PHP on local server

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plinares
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Installing/Integrating GD with PHP on local server

Post by plinares »

Hi everyone

I installed WAMP5 in order to be able to test Joomla locally. I wanted to create a basic gallery and installed a component for Joomla, Zoom Media Gallery. Everything worked fine except it can´t generate thumbnails because (and I quote):

"PHP running on your server does not fully support the GD image library. Please compile GD with jpeg support, or switch to ImageMagick. Warning: PHP running on your server does not support GD version 2.x, please switch to GD version 1.x on the config page"

I went to http://php.net/gd and read and 8O didn´t understand a thing. I then went to http://www.libgd.org and downloaded GD-2.0.35RC2 but i´m not sure what to do with it.

I´m all new to these things, and I´m used to downloading and double clicking on some sort of install file. But this is another kettle of fish!!

Would someone be so kind as to point out how to solve this problem? (How to "install" GD with my PHP)I would kindly ask you to explain it to me as if I was a 6 year old, really, otherwise I feel I´ll never be able to solve this!

Sorry for the long winded message and thanks so much to anyone that can help me out on this one.

Patri.
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Post by pickle »

It sounds like the simplest thing to do would be to change the way Joomla is set up so that it can use version 1.X. From the error message, it sounds like that's just a simple config setting.
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