[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] – no GD Library ??

Hi

I promise this is the last time I answer to my own post 🙂

I have looked at the npgallery code now. When I select the Gallery tap in the WP admin, the file /npgallery/admin/wp25/overview.php is loaded (why the wp25 and not the one in /npgallery/admin/ ?)

In this file there is a function ngg_gd_info() which checks for GD support:
if(function_exists(“gd_info”))
{echo ‘<h4>’.__(‘GD support’, ‘nggallery’).'</h4><ul class=”settings”>’;}
else {echo ‘<h4>’.__(‘No GD support’, ‘nggallery’).’!</h4>

‘;

I keep seeing “No GD support” in the admin tap.

Now I wrote a php script
if(function_exists(“gd_info”))
echo “it EXISTS”;
and placed it in the same folder…and what do I get? it EXISTS

I am totally lost how this is possible. Any ideas anyone?

hi
thanks for the answer

yes I can, the core uploader works fine. I also tested a few other scripts that use the GD library, they all work on the same server.

I am really extremely clueless. Clicking on the “Gallery” tap loads the overview.php page in the wp25 folder.
In that file the function checking for the GD lib goes into the “else” part of the function_exists loop.

If I add an additional line to the script at the end:

if(function_exists(“gd_info”))
echo “it EXISTS”;

the text appears (somewhere) on the page, i.e. the function is found.
The only part in the GD lib setup that is disabled is on the server is
T1Lib Support: Disabled
I don know if this matters.

Anyway, I do NOT understand how two identical “if” statements in the same file can result in two different outcomes. I am totally baffled by this.

Hi again
my progress is limited…but I am learning alot about php at least. So here is what I know now (also, the info in my last post has been slightly incorrect)

1) GD library is not loaded by default on my server, but can be added by
extension = gd.so
in the php.ini file. Somehow the settings on this server (as far as I could figure it out) require that such a php.ini file is placed directly into the folder from which the script in question is run.
This I have tested with the small test script:

$array=gd_info ();
foreach ($array as $key=>$val) {
if ($val===true) {
$val=”Enabled”;
}
if ($val===false) {
$val=”Disabled”;
}
echo “$key: $val
\n”;
}

As soon as a php.ini with the above mentioned line is in the same folder, this script works and lists the GD settings. But it really only works if php.ini is in the folder.

2) Thinking that this might be my problem, I have copied the php.ini created by WordPress into each and every folder that contains php-files, both of the WordPress installation and the NGGallery plugin.
As a consequence, the test script now works in all of these folders.

3) I went further and tested the GD functions with an example from the php-manual:
header (‘Content-type: image/png’);
$im = @imagecreatetruecolor(120, 20)
or die(‘Cannot Initialize new GD image stream’);
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5, ‘A Simple Text String’, $text_color);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

This works also in all the NGGallery and WordPress folders.

4) When I now click on the Gallery tap in the WordPress admin (the link opened is ./wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php?page=nggallery)
I still get the “No GD support” line.
My last post was incorrect that
if(function_exists(“gd_info”))
returns true elsewhere in the file that creates this page (overview.php). In this script it does not work anywhere.

5) My idea was that probably the script that produces the shown output (overview.php) is in practise not executed from the folder where it is stored but from somewhere else. Hence I copied the required php.ini to each and every folder in the WordPress installation, but it does not change anything.

I still suspect that this is my problem, somehow the NGGallery code is executed within WordPress in such a way that the php.ini files with extension = gd.so are not used.
Here my (very limited) php knowledge is long exhausted. I have no idea if and how this is possible and how it could be fixed.

Any ideas?