Echoing text to the screen is a very useful debugging tool when creating images from php, if you type the full location of the image script in the address bar, rather than specifying it as an image that is opened by a html page.
If you do this Teresa, you should get the PHP error message, and if you give this to us it would help. Alastair Battrick Senior Developer Lightwood Consultancy Ltd http://www.lightwood.net > -----Original Message----- > From: Jordan S. Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 12 March 2002 11:29 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] Re: Can't display PNG images > > > The icon essentially means that it was a broken image, or that > they code did > not work. I know that wasn't much help. > > On another point, in my opinion, it doesn't make a whole lot of logical > sense to have a die("Error text") statement in code that creates > an image.. > If an error does occur, it will still display the same broken image icon. > However, I am not the definitive word on the matter, and if you or anyone > else has a different opinion on the matter, I would be more than happy to > hear it. > > Jordan > > "Teresa Narvaez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Hello, > > Background info: > > ---------------- > > I'm running > > o PHP 4.1.1 on a linux server kernel(2.2.16). > > o Using Netscape Communicator 4.75 > > o Compiled and installed the gd(1.8.4) library > > > > Problem(2 problems): > > -------------------- > > 1.- The following code won't display an image(I get an icon of some type > of > > piece of paper). > > <?php > > header ("Content-type: image/png"); > > $im = @ImageCreate (50, 100) > > or die ("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream"); > > $background_color = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 255, 255, 255); > > $text_color = ImageColorAllocate ($im, 233, 14, 91); > > ImageString ($im, 1, 5, 5, "A Simple Text String", $text_color); > > ImagePng ($im); > > ?> > > > > 2.- The configure Command from phpinfo() is different than what > I actually > > typed at the > > command line. Also, phpinfo() area for GD does not show PNG or JPEG > > support. why? > > from phpinfo() > > -------------- > > './configure' '--with-mysql' '--with-apxs=/var/apache/bin/apxs' > > '--with-gd=/home/builder/downloads/untarred/gd-1.8.4' > > '--enable-sockets' > > '--enable-calendar' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-trans-sid' > > What I typed at the command line: > > --------------------------------- > > ./configure --with-mysql --with-apxs=/var/apache/bin/apxs > > --with-gd=/home/builder/downloads/untarred/gd-1.8.4 > > --with-png-dir=/usr/lib --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-ttf > > --with-jpeg-dir=/home/builder/downloads/untarred/jpeg-6b > > --with-t1lib=/home/builder/downloads/untarred/t1lib-1.3.1 > > --enable-sockets --with-zlib-dir --with-xpm-dir > --enable-calenda > r > > --enable-ftp --enable-trans-sid > > > > OUTPUT from phpinfo() > > ----------------------- > > GD Support enabled > > GD Version 1.6.2 or higher > > WBMP Support enabled > > > > I would really appretiate any ideas you could give me. > > Thanks in advance! -Teresa > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
