Making work Pixelpost with PHP 4.3.1 and GD 1.6.2

[ced]

Hello
i want to install pixelpost 1.4.1 or another release on hosting service lacentraleinternet...
they have PHP 4.3.1 and GD 1.6.2 installed on the server...
now, i have installed pixelpost 1.3 on it, all is working excepted thumbnails...
and i get an error :
"Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imagecreatetruecolor() in /data/clients/6151/cfdesign.cc/httpdocs/pixelpost141/includes/functions.php on line 69"

to see phpinfos on my server :
http://www.cfdesign.cc/etat.php

could someone help please
thanks
cedric

Cedric,

well, PHP should be ok, the minimal requirement is PHP 4.3.0
I am not sure about the version of GD, it seems a little bit old

but: did you search the forum? There are many posts with "Undefined functions"

but what makes me wonder:

did you install PP 1.3 or PP 1.4.1? /includes/functions does not exist in version 1.3 and you should not install an old version

what is the image-path? etc...

tell us information from the admin/general info-page please as well

[ced]

Hello Connie
thankyou for your answer, may be i need to change my Hosting provider...
no exif, old version of php, and GD...
With the 3 versions of PIxelpost, all is working except the thumbnails
if you want to see :
www.cfdesign.cc/pixelpost141 (1.4.1)
http://www.cfdesign.cc/pixelpost13 (1.3)
i got same error for the 2 versions

Admin login : ced
password : casa


infos for PP 1.3

Pixelpost Version
You are running version 1.3 of Pixelpost. Released 16 november 2004.
Latest pixelpost version: Check
Looking for help or want to give feedback, please step into pixelpost forum.
www.pixelpunk.se/software/forum/


Host information
PHP-version 4.3.1
MySQL version 3.23.55

GD-lib 1.6.2 or higher

Server software Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_perl/1.29 mod_watch/3.18 AuthMySQL/2.20 mod_throttle/3.1.2 PHP/3.0.18 mod_ssl/2.8.18 OpenSSL/0.9.7d mod_pointer/0.8

EXIF Your php does not seem to be compiled with exif-enabled.

Permissions
Images folder
Images folder is writable, which is a good thing.
Thumbnails folder
Thumbnails folder is writable.


For PP 1.4.1
Pixelpost Version
You are running version 1.4.1 of Pixelpost. Released 24 April 2005.
Latest pixelpost version: Check
Looking for help or want to give feedback, please step into pixelpost forum.
www.pixelpost.org/forum/


Host Information
PHP-version 4.3.1 (Pixelpost's min requirement: PHP version 4.3.0)
MySQL version 3.23.55 (Pixelpost's min requirement: MySQL 3.23.58)

GD-lib 1.6.2 or higher with JPEG support

Server software Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_perl/1.29 mod_watch/3.18 AuthMySQL/2.20 mod_throttle/3.1.2 PHP/3.0.18 mod_ssl/2.8.18 OpenSSL/0.9.7d mod_pointer/0.8

EXIF Pixelpost is using exifer v1.5 for EXIF information.


Paths
Guessed imagepath: /data/clients/6151/cfdesign.cc/httpdocs//pixelpost141/images/
Configured Imagepath /data/clients/6151/cfdesign.cc/httpdocs//pixelpost141/images/

Image Directory: OK - Can we write to the directory? YES.

Thumbnails Directory: OK - Can we write to the directory? YES.

Language Directory: OK

Addons Directory: OK

Includes Directory: OK

Templates Directory: OK

[ced]

hello Connie
i have found an solution to make work pixelpost 1.4.1 with GD 1.6
in /admin/functions.php i have replaced imagecreatetruecolor with imagecreate, and now it work well... Thumbnails are created...

do you think with this replacement, certain things will don't work well?

thanks
ced

[raminia+]

I think there would be some problems with number of colors in thumbnails.

you will have only 256 colors...

[ced]

hello
thanks for your answer
is ther an issue wich working with GD 1.6 to get million of colors as with createtruecolors?
thanks
i have found in the php manual, than imagecreatetruecolor isn't supported by GD before 2.0

ced,

if you have read the php manual already then you know exactly the same as we know

there is only a restricted number of commands and I see absolutely no sense to waste time to program around things which are already solved, to write workarounds for nothing

a hoster should offer actual versions or the client can either change the hoster or accept what he gets

[ced]

hi connie
in fact i'm really a beginner in php , i just have searched for the function in php doc to make pixelpost work on my very bad hosting provider...
i just asked because you seem knowing php really better than me
i will going to stop working with lacentraleinternet.com, this month they created me a lot of problem, (erasing my email alias for the second time), dont answer to mail, changed 3 time their admin interface, without finishing 1 of them correctly...
thankyou for help
i hope this small hack could help someone in same case...