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If you want to run GD1.8, you need to do it with a PHP 4.2.3 script.
GD1.8 won't run under PHP 4.3.1+.

Here's a sample script starting as 1st charatcer position, line 1 of a
file named test.php:
#!/usr/local/bin/php-4.2.3
<?
   dl("local/gd-1.8.so");
   if($test) {
         header ("Content-type: image/png");
         $im = @imagecreate (50, 100)
                     or die ("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
         $background_color = imagecolorallocate ($im, 255, 255, 255);
         $text_color = imagecolorallocate ($im, 233, 14, 91);
         imagestring ($im, 1, 5, 5,  "A Simple Text String",
$text_color);
         imagepng ($im);
         exit;
}
else {
   echo "PHP version: ". phpversion() ."<br>";

   if(extension_loaded("gd")) 
       echo "GD Loaded. <a href=$PHP_SELF?test=1>".
                "create test image</a><p>";
   else echo "Couldn't load GD";

   $arr = get_extension_funcs("gd");
   for($i=0; $i<sizeof($arr); $i++)
        echo $arr[$i] ."<br>\n";
}
?>

Also make sure do do not try to load extension = gd.so from /etc/php.ini
otherwise you will get Internal Server errors. The gd.so in php.ini
refers to GD 2.x compiled for PHP 4.3.1+ so turn it off by following
this:

   http://www.modwest.com/help/kb.phtml?cat=5&qid=99

Last, you need to create a /libexec dir and copy gd.so from 4.2.3's
/usr/local/libexec/php-4.2.3 like this:

    mkdir /libexec
    cp /usr/local/libexec/php-4.2.3/gd.so /libexec/gd-1.8.so

Then load that gd lib like the above script does by using dl().

If you are trying to use GD 2.x under PHP 4.3.2, and finding that GD
under that version of PHP is broken, then you should have run the
previous version of PHP to execute your GD code.

1. From your home directory at a shell prompt:
    mkdir libexec
    cp /usr/local/libexec/php-4.3.1/gd.so libexec

That copies the non-buggy shared object that was compiled for the last
version of PHP.

2. The php script that executes GD functions must have as the very first
line:

    #!/usr/local/bin/php-4.3.1

That must start at the 1st position of the first line. An Opening php
tag begin on any  subsequent line.

3. The php script that will execute any GD functions must have this line
before any GD function is used:

    dl("local/gd.so");

That loads the object that you copied into your home directory's libexec
in Step 1. If you named the file dkjfhdf.so in Step 1, then you load
"local/dkjfhdf.so" here.

4. Make sure you have the gd.so extension turned off in your
/etc/php.ini file by making sure that line is commented out with a
semicolon as the 1st character.