Here is a nice page where you will find patches so that even new gd supports gif http://www.rime.com.au/gd/gd.html I think its a patent thing why gd dropped gif. Depending on where you live you are still allowed to use it
/Alexander ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rasmus Lerdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nick Couchman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-INST] GIF Support? > PHP did not drop GIF support. Newer versions of the GD library did, so if > you compile PHP against a newer version of GD, you will not have GIF > support. > > -Rasmus > > On Thu, 30 May 2002, Nick Couchman wrote: > > > Anyone know how (if it is possible) to enable GIF support in PHP 4? > > When I was trying to work with the version that came on the RedHat > > package I got an error that GIF support wasn't enabled. When I > > downloaded the sources I didn't see any configure option to enable it. > > Did PHP4 drop GIF support? > > > > --Nick > > > > -- > > You can't make a difference until you are willing to be different. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP Install Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > -- > PHP Install Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Install Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
