THANK YOU SO MUCH GUYS ITS NOW WORKING, 
I did not have php-gd installed once installed its working phew, could not have done this without sitepoint members help, anything i can do to support this site i will just ask.
so to fix the issue:-
install php-gd on Arch linux run command:-
pacman -Sy php-gd
then restart apache:-
then check info.php for gd enabled
open webpage and thats it working.
now i can play around and learn the code what i would like to do first is to get the counter to go up everytime i refresh