NOTE: New Image thumbnail broken since upgrade? Is it a .gif? It might be GD...

wlanni · November 15th, 2005, 04:25 PM

Hello folks,

I was searching for a while for why some thumbnails weren't working. I found the answer in this thread, but wanted to make a new thread to help people searching for keywords that don't include .gif (I didn't realize it was only .gif, I thought I had busted something when I upgraded to the latest vBulletin and Gallery).

GIF support was added back in version 2.0.28 of GD library. To find out what version of GD you have installed, go into your admincp, scroll to the bottom in the left nav, and click 'View php info'. hit find and search for 'gd' (you want the entry that is an entire section on gd, not just a piece of a line of code) or scroll down to the gd section. This will tell you what version of gd you have.

My next task to figure out if it is possible to upgrade ONLY the gd library in php without having to recompile all of php. I would appreciate any guidance on this.

Thanks!

Will Lanni

bulbasnore · June 21st, 2006, 10:56 PM

Well, I found your post and it was very helpful. I transferred my database to a new server and reloaded PPvB 1.0.2 for vB 3.5.4. I updated my templates/phrases. This brought back the thumbnails (which are direct access via the file system). Once that happened, I could NOT get the regular images (which are shown by displayimage.php, showimage.php), but I could see the ORIGINAL images if I clicked on the place where the regular images would normally display. ORIGINAL images are also direct from the file system.

I began to suspect I was missing GD, based on some other posts.

OK, to do my part.

How do you update php to add/recognize GD without recompiling PHP?

I have a Fedora Core System. Its built from RPM packages. I noticed that PHP had a core package and then added package modules for things like MySQL & LDAP. I used a package updating mechanism (there are many, in this case YUM) to find a php-gd package. I used the package updater to add it to my system & whammo, back in business.

Thanks for your thoughtful post.