What is GD

[fishing4u]

Can somebody let me know what GD is and were i might find it as i am trying to get the code to work when visitors try to register on my board but it says i need to have GD any help please.

[Spank]

Where does it say this?

[fishing4u]

If i go into my admin panel and the goto user reg and goto the Image Verification - underneath this it says

"If you do not see an image below then your Image settings are wrong or not enabled. Verify the options set in "Image Settings""

so i go to the image setting and i find this

"Choose the image processing library that vBulletin will use for processing thumbnails and avatars. GD is more widely available but ImageMagick is more robust, supporting more image types. ImageMagick must have a valid path chosen below."

But no matter which setting i choose i still cannot see the code.

[Stingray27]

It's the software that builds the images.

[fishing4u]

Any ideas were i might get it from?

[Paul M]

AFAIK, it comes with apache - I've never seen a server without it.

[fishing4u]

:)Ok thanks guys i,ll go hunting in my server for it to make sure its enabled

[StuntFactoryX]

when i moved from shared to vps i had a simular issiue. imagemajik was installed there but no gd. i found instructions in the cpanel forums. it was quite easy i just had to rebuild apache and tick the gd box.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

You can also use ImageMagick instead of GD.

[R1lover]

What operating system are you using?

[StuntFactoryX]

You can also use ImageMagick instead of GD.

i was doing that for a few months then i installed a articles hack (madebymary) and ran into issues w/o gd. i updated apache w/ gd and all my problems went away. so i guess its nice to have both : )

[Marco van Herwaarden]

For standard vBulletin you can use either, we can not control if modifications support both methods.