GD GIF support in 4.3.7

By Harry Fuecks | June 18, 2004 | PHP

Just quick tip off. With patents finally running out, looks like PHP 4.3.7′s GD extension may have GIF support again. More info from Tobias here.

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Harry Fuecks

Harry has been working in corporate IT since 1994, with everything from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. Outside of office hours he runs phpPatterns: a site dedicated to software design with PHP that aims to raise standards of PHP development. He also maintains Dynamically Typed: SitePoint's PHP blog.

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exiang July 26, 2004 at 3:02 am: gd now support output gif.
but php 4.3.8 is not ready yet.
HarryF June 20, 2004 at 7:49 am: Ooops ;) Thanks what comes of quick tips… Anyway – may be sometime soon…
mmj June 20, 2004 at 1:48 am: I recall seeing information on the GD website that GIF would never be supported again because PNG is superior to it.
Admittedly, though, the information about the return of GIF on the GD website is contradictory in places.
schst June 19, 2004 at 7:03 am: This is very unlikely, as PHP4.3.7 has already been released two weeks ago :)
See the changelog for this: http://de3.php.net/ChangeLog-4.php#4.3.7
There has been a discussion on internals, that GIF can only be supported if the patent has expired worldwide (which will be July 7th).
Best regards,
Stephan
Lukas June 19, 2004 at 3:32 am: tsk tsk .. copying tobi’s typos :-)
4.3.7 is already released.