ImageMagick Question

[courtney.]

I have Coppermine installed & it is working, but I do not have ImageMagick working on it. I talked to my webhost provider & he says he beleives that ImageMagick is already installed. But I done the info.php thing, and this is what it showed:

(https://coppermine-gallery.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fversatilecreations.webhostingcafe.com%2Fimages%2Fgd.jpg&hash=65a0fd6fcfca810ee56c1b056295e88391a4228a)

Now does this mean that all I have is gd? and with gd can I have graphics saved as gif format and if so how do I configure coppermine to do this, because right now, all I am allowed to have are jpg and png formats.
Thanks on any help given.

[kegobeer]

ImageMagick isn't a PHP extension, so it won't show up in your PHP information.  You say your host believes it's installed?     I'd say it's time to find another host!  If ImageMagick is installed, you host will give you the path to the binaries (usually something like /usr/local/bin/).

GD 2.0.28 supports GIF creation (which you don't have), but Coppermine doesn't have to code to handle GIF filetypes when using GD to manipulate images.  The next version will support GD/GIF.  Curretnly if you want to use GIFs you must use ImageMagick.

Please review the documentation that comes with Coppermine.

[courtney.]

Thank you for answering me back,
You said next version will support gifs are you meaning next version of Coppermine?

[Casper]

The next version will support normal upload of gif, with gd, if the gd also supports it.

You can however, upload gif files now with gd, but you have to make a change in the database to hadle gif's as documents, not images.   You then need to upload a custom thumbnail.   There have been a couple of threads on this.

[courtney.]

Do you know when the new version is due out? I will probably wait for it rather than making custom thumbnails, etc. with the version I have now.

[kegobeer]

Do you know when the new version is due out?

No.