why is php_gd not installed?

Hi

I have resently installed a gd support on php4 on my windows platform and i just copyed the dll file into the DIR /extension and putted the required line
;extension=php_gd.dll
into php.ini

the php_info();

show that the GD support is enabled but it´s not working,

I tryed now to check with IF statement wheiter the module was on or not:

PHP Code:

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IF (extension_loaded(php_gd.dll)) {
    print ("yeah he´s loaded!");
}
else
{ 
    print ("men! it´s not loaded!");
} 


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it return the false statement :(

but the Gd is working fine now beacause
i just loaded it directly with
DL("php_gd.dll");
before i loaded the GD syntaxes

Well this is a solution in the end :)

But why is it not working before i used the DL() ???

Do i have to recompile php? on a a windows platform?

Did you restart your web server after placing gd.dll in the extensions folder? If not then PHP won't have loaded it, so your DL() option works cause its loading it dynamically, you must restart the server to get the dll loaded into runtime

offcours did i restart it

Well that would be the number one mistake, so I guess you made it past that one. Okay I just noticed you said you put

Code:

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;extension=php_gd.dll

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into your php.ini file. That is the wrong syntax, the semicolon means comment this line out. It should be

Code:

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extension=php_gd.dll

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Offcours it don´t work men! :)

this is the php.ini file where the modules are loaded

PHP Code:

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;Windows Extensions
;Note that MySQL and ODBC support is now built in, so no dll is needed for it.
;
;extension=php_bz2.dll
;extension=php_ctype.dll
;extension=php_cpdf.dll
;extension=php_curl.dll
;extension=php_cybercash.dll
;extension=php_db.dll
;extension=php_dba.dll
;extension=php_dbase.dll
;extension=php_domxml.dll
;extension=php_dotnet.dll
;extension=php_exif.dll
;extension=php_fdf.dll
;extension=php_filepro.dll
;extension=php_gd.dll
;extension=php_gettext.dll
;extension=php_ifx.dll
;extension=php_iisfunc.dll
;extension=php_imap.dll
;extension=php_interbase.dll
;extension=php_java.dll
;extension=php_ldap.dll
;extension=php_mhash.dll
;extension=php_mssql65.dll
;extension=php_mssql70.dll
;extension=php_oci8.dll
;extension=php_openssl.dll
;extension=php_oracle.dll
;extension=php_pdf.dll
;extension=php_pgsql.dll
;extension=php_printer.dll
;extension=php_sablot.dll
;extension=php_snmp.dll
;extension=php_sybase_ct.dll
;extension=php_yaz.dll
;extension=php_zlib.dll 


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all this lines are "comment" out like the help text in the file so all this modules are not loaded.


Silly me!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks for the help dude :)