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Dave Cohen

Member

Registered: 2008-09-27

Posts: 126

Cant get PHP and GD to work, after uprade (and then downgrade)

Recently performed a system upgrade.  Worked well, thanks to the entire Arch community.

Then I had to downgrade my PHP, from a 5.3 to 5.2 version.  Had to do this because I run Drupal, and Drupal 6.x does not yet support 5.3.  But that's another topic.

Now, I find PHP unable to use the GD graphics extensions, which used to work.  I have the gd.so line uncommented in my php.ini, and I see the gd.so file in the place where php looks for extensions, the suspiciously-named, /usr/lib/php/20060613/ (looks like a date from 3 years ago!)

So what extra steps do I have to take to get my old PHP version running as well as it once did?

Thanks for any help.  I realize this is not exactly an arch-specific issue.  But since I'm using Arch and people here are super-smart, I thought I'd ask.

-Dave

Cheifchimp

Member

From: Queensland Australia

Registered: 2009-05-07

Posts: 69

Re: Cant get PHP and GD to work, after uprade (and then downgrade)

I'm stuck with the same problem, been going round in circles with it all day

Dave Cohen

Member

Registered: 2008-09-27

Posts: 126

Re: Cant get PHP and GD to work, after uprade (and then downgrade)

I solved by not downgrading.  Instead, install community/php52.

Cheifchimp

Member

From: Queensland Australia

Registered: 2009-05-07

Posts: 69

Re: Cant get PHP and GD to work, after uprade (and then downgrade)

I solved by not downgrading.  Instead, install community/php52.

genius, I'm back in business, many thanks