How to open and verify the php gd library? (Pictures + Videos)

This article mainly introduces how to open the gd library in PHP and test and verify it.

First of all, everyone needs to understandWhat is the GD library?

The GD library is an extension library for PHP to process graphics. The GD library provides a series of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for processing pictures. You can use the GD library to process pictures, or generate pictures, or You can add watermarks to pictures.

On the website, the GD library is mainly used to generate thumbnails, add watermarks to pictures, generate Chinese character verification codes, or generate reports for website data, etc. to achieve some graphics-related functional effects.

The GD library is not enabled by default in PHP, so how to enable the GD library?

Step 1. In the PHP environment, open the configuration file and find the php-ini file.

Step 2. Find extension=php_gd2 in the php-ini file, and then remove the semicolon in front of it.

Step 3. After modification, save. Restart the PHP environment and check the gd library installation information. If you can see the gd library information as shown in the figure below, it means that the GD library has been successfully opened.

There are two ways to view the gd library installation information:

1. Create a php file, and then output phpinfo(), the code is as follows:

2 .Enter "127.0.0.1/phpinfo.php" in the browser's address bar and press Enter.

The results of these two methods are the same.

After opening the gd library according to the above steps, we will verify it through a simple usage code example.

      
Here we use some interfaces in the gd library to make a simple picture. The final effect is as follows:
      

      
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