This is not a critical issue.

I have installed version 5.3.3 of PHP5 as directed in the documentation (unzipped into directory c:/php and used the suggested AbelCam template for php.ini). PHP appears to be running fine with AbelCam 3.2.3. However, I've installed a third party PHP script which does a hyperlinked directory listing (no index.html file required) in order to dynamically display all of my motion captured jpegs which I put in a separate directory. That script is basically working fine and can be found here:

http://www.evoluted.net/community/code/directorylisting.php

The only problem I have is that the script says that automatic thumbnail generation requires gd2 and I can't seem to get that to work on my rig. I can click on each file and it opens nicely, but the demo of the script shows that a mouseover will display a pop-up thumbnail which would be very nice for me.

AbelCam documentation does say that PHP is only partially supported, so this is NOT a complaint. However, I have been knocking myself out by modifying my php.ini file (the AbelCam version) and will stop my efforts if external modules, or just gd2, just aren't supported.

Here is what I've done to the php.ini file (these two line were originally made invisible as comments):

extension_dir="c:\php\ext\"
extension=php_gd2.dll

I've actually tried every possible value of extension_dir to no avail. What SHOULD happen is that php should find php_gd2.dll in the extension_dir directory and all will be well.

When I run phpinfo.php there are no modules listed and the following line is a mystery to me:

extension_dir => C:\php5 => C:\php5

Any thoughts on this? Anyone else doing extensive php work with AbelCam? I'm actually VERY pleased that basic php is working and will help me solve a lot of other problems.

Is it worth just setting up Apache and use that on another port to serve up that directory?

St. Louis, Missouri, USA