GD Issues

[timothytrice]

I'm exec the following code from the PHP site:

header ("Content-type: image/jpeg");
$im = @imagecreatetruecolor(50, 100) or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
$text_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 233, 14, 91);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5,  "A Simple Text String", $text_color);
imagejpeg($im);
imagedestroy($im); 

However, the output is simply the url of the page.

This has been a recurring issue I'm just no revisiting. I can't even tell if GD is installed (though I only get "Call to undefined function" errors with imagecreate, imagecreatefromgif functions). Other times I get this type of output. This is not my site but a friends whom I'm trying to fix.

Any solutions?

Thanks.

Tim Trice

[Son Nguyen]

Probably because GD is not installed, try to see the output of phpinfo(). In Firefox, if the image is broken, I believe it would show the URL string instead.

[clamcrusher]

the output is not the url of the page, thats just what your browser displays.

right click > view source to see the output of the page. or just stop sending the header so you can debug more easily.

[peterb]

I threw that on my server and it produced a black box with red text, no problem.

[timothytrice]

Yes, it was a GD issue. Fortunately, the host allowed me to restart the server w/ the lib installed so it wasn't too bad of a deal. Much better than I feared.

Definately expected an error output from PHP like the others. Threw me for a twist seeing the URL there...didn't realize it could be FF.

Thanks for input guys.

Tim Trice