UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads 7 Discussion Version 7 Assistance Captcha with GD2

I see GD2 as enabled in my phpinfo, but when I go to Registration Settings for enabling Captcha Settings, it says

"It appears you do not have access to GD2 or Imagemagick."

and there is no option to "Enable" Captcha?

help please

In order to use GD2, PHP will also need to support freetype, as these two work together. If you're on a hosted server you can see if your host can enable this. The other option is to use ImageMagick. If you have ssh access to the server, you can install this yourself, even if you don't have root access.

Rick, Free Type is already enabled. I am already using GD w/o issues for Gallery and VBulletin.

Here are the GD info:

GD Support enabled
GD Version bundled (2.0.28 compatible)
FreeType Support enabled
FreeType Linkage with TTF library
GIF Read Support enabled
GIF Create Support enabled
JPG Support enabled
PNG Support enabled
WBMP Support enabled
XBM Support enabled

You actually need GD2 and FreeType,
they normally come bundled as one, you can also see that
information via your php.info

Hope that helps.

I didn't have FreeType and went the imagemagick v6 Route.
I think it was version 6.

Thanks Mark,

But As I mentioned in the thread above, I already have GD2+FreeType but still Captcha is not enabled.

One the same account, I am using VB + Captcha w/o any issues

I don't know if this is connected but what about Convert and Mogrify?

CP / DB, Paths & URLs / Paths & URLs / ImageMagick Settings

Path to Convert: /usr/bin/convert
Path to Mogrify: /usr/bin/mogrify

Sorry missed that,

Its over my head, sorry i cant help any more.

What you may consider is a Support Ticket
as it doesn't sound like its the norm what's happening.

Mark

Basically it looks for the imagefttext() function before it gives the option to use GD2 for CAPTCHA. Is PHP compiled with freetype support? You can see some notes on the function at the link I gave.

It could be this portion: FreeType Linkage with TTF library as that appears to be using the Truetype font library and not the freetype library. I'm not sure if that makes the function unavailable to php or not.

To verify if the function exists, you can make a quick php script:

thank you all. I resolved this by using ImageMagik instead of GD...such a simple solution thanks to those who suggested this solution

Glad to hear you got it up and running. There is a large benefit to using ImageMagick, it has a larger color depth, so users who have trouble seeing the images will be able to see them easier.