New Issue - Can't upload GIF Student Pics...

New Issue - Can't upload GIF Student Pics...

by Jim Hale -
Number of replies: 2

Maybe I just haven't noticed yet since I've been using .jpg images (and they upload fine) - but when I try to upload a .gif image into the student profile, it just sits there, and sits there, and sits there until it comes back and says 'Page Not Found'.

I checked the logs for my httpd server and it says that the gif format is not supported (it's probably from GD, but I'm not sure).

Anyone else run into this perchance?

Thanks! smile

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Re: New Issue - Can't upload GIF Student Pics...

by Sean Keogh -
Yup, some versions of some of the image manipulation software around had gif support removed a while back, after the gif patent issue cropped up.
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Re: New Issue - Can't upload GIF Student Pics...

by Stefan Frank -
Hi Jim,

we configured PHP (4.3.0) like that:
'./configure' '--with-apxs=/opt/www/apache-1.3.26/bin/apxs' '--with-mysql=/opt/www/mysql' '--enable-ftp' '--with-gd' '--with-zlib' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib'
(from our phpinfo())

The GD-version we use is "2.0 compatible" and I think it's one of the latest versions of GD. "GIF-*read* support" is enabled, while GD can't write GIFs due to these license restrictions.
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