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    Sorry, this server doesn't support imagecreatefromgif()

    I'm getting

    Sorry, this server doesn't support imagecreatefromgif()

    on a Microsoft-IIS/6.0/php 5.2.5 server.

    The site is joomla and virtuemart and was originally on a linux box, vm stop displaying thumbnails if the images were fairly large and I think the imagecreatefromgif() message could be the reason why, I get that message if I put it in as a direct url, ie

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    http://www.tssc.org.uk/components/com_virtuemart/show_image_in_imgtag.php?filename=b2b9fdf0c03c34911364149054839eb4.gif&newxsize=90&newysize=90&fileout=
    on the actual page virtue mart page it just displays no thumbnail, the images do exist on the server.

    Any ideas anyone?

    edit Abit more research points to me having a GD version that does not support it.
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    Re: Sorry, this server doesn't support imagecreatefromgif()

    <snip>
    Last edited by DavidM; 29-07-2008 at 05:09 PM.

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    Re: Sorry, this server doesn't support imagecreatefromgif()

    Gifs require LZW, and as such are a bit of a legal minefeild in some retarded legally backwards countries.
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Re: Sorry, this server doesn't support imagecreatefromgif()

    This is the phpinfo for the server, don't know if that helps.

    http://www.tssc.org.uk/phpinfo.php

    One of my bosses brainwaves was telling someone we'd host there php website on our windows server when we have not previously had any dealings with php
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    Re: Sorry, this server doesn't support imagecreatefromgif()

    your boss is a bit of a retard, enless there was some massive gain to be made he has just:

    Increased cost by adding a product you've no experiance/inhosue expertese
    Increased risk by adding another peice of software to the mix of production server
    Decreased security by adding another attack vector too the mix (and not one with a good record, even in recent years).
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Re: Sorry, this server doesn't support imagecreatefromgif()

    He is a self confessed whore when it comes to saying yes to anything that involves money.

    Still cant get this to work though, I've uncommented the gd extension dll in the php.ini, the extension dir is pointing to the correct place as the mysql ones work, and the dll is there.
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    Re: Sorry, this server doesn't support imagecreatefromgif()

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    Re: Sorry, this server doesn't support imagecreatefromgif()

    I cant even do that, gd_info() returns nowt
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    Re: Sorry, this server doesn't support imagecreatefromgif()

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    Re: Sorry, this server doesn't support imagecreatefromgif()

    I really am going to beat my boss one day

    Sorted though, restared IIS with the php.ini changes made.

    His latest brainwave after all the trouble I had setting up SBS in our office is to quote someone for me to now go and sort out there not working SBS installation, major fail, when he was typing up the quote he said "what would you like to be named? a 'windows exchange server analyst'", I told him just to refer to me in the quote as a monkey, I think he used his idea.
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    Re: Sorry, this server doesn't support imagecreatefromgif()

    After enabling GD you must restart your HTTP server.
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