I'm using Slackware 10 and installed GD as an install package. I also changed some lines in the php.ini file for GD. Tom: I have no idea how this program works, all I know is that I need it for the captcha program to display the image. I wouldn't even bother otherwise. Thanks..... B -----Original Message----- From: Ray Hauge [mailto:ray.hauge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: June 12, 2006 7:35 PM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Beauford Subject: Re: GD On Monday 12 June 2006 16:11, Beauford wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get GD working so I can use a captcha script and not > having much luck. I can get it to work in Windows, but not Linux. > > I have seen a few comments suggesting that PHP needs to be compiled > with the GD switch. Is there another way to do this? I have PHP, MySQL > and Apache installed and working great, I don't want to have to > recompile PHP and have it screw up everything just for one program. > > Any help is appreciated. > > B Depending on your Linux distribution, you might be able to find a GD module for PHP. That way you don't have to re-compile PHP. If you use an RPM based distro, this would be very easy. Free-BSD you could just compile the port. -- Ray Hauge Programmer/Systems Administrator American Student Loan Services www.americanstudentloan.com 1.800.575.1099 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php