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Thanks for the process description, lightningstrike. I may end up doing something just like that if nothing else works. Unfortunately, the admins are swamped at the moment and may not become unswamped until next semester. However, maybe if I sent them a link to easy installation instructions, they could run with it. Clarification: The server is linux/apache. I don't have much access to the server: no cpanel, no cron jobs, nothing but secure ftp. My account is messed up - I have access to the entire server including all /var, /etc, and so on, so I can read the conf files for Apache if that helps. However, I prefer not to muck about in an area where I shouldn't be. Wow, this sounds promising - I'm very much a newbie when it comes to these sort of things, so bear with me: I gather that I need the admins to add 'extension=php_gd2.so' (or the equivalent library) in the php.conf file. They also need to place php_gd2.so in the modules directory. Where do I download php_gd2.so (I couldn't find it on the server. )? Will there be different library versions for different versions of php (the school's server is running php 4.3.9)? Thanks so much for all your help. I just need these two questions answered and I might be able to get the admins to set this up for me.

Bump for clarification. All I want to do is this: A user on web site A submits a large photo to site A. Site A forwards the photo to site B, asking for a resize to thumbnail. Site B lets site A know when the thumbnails are done, and either sends back links to the thumbnails or sends the thumbnail images themselves. Site A uploads the thumbnails from site B. Also, this: Site A requests a captcha from site B. Site B responds with the captcha. It's complex. Is it doable? Where do I even begin? Thanks again. Hope someone can help me out.

Hi all. First time poster. =) I've just finished a website for the university newspaper. It's very snazzy, and I'm proud of myself because it's the first real project that I've ever worked on that involved php/mysql/css/etc. The back end for the website is SMF, but the front end is all custom coded and reasonably gorgeous. However, I've run into one problem: the website must be hosted on the school's servers, and the servers do not have a GD library installed. Thus, I'm missing these two critical functions: I can't resize pictures that are uploaded... so my reporters can upload stories, but when the photographers upload their pictures, they're 10 megapixel, 3 megabyte monsters. I want to resize them down to thumbnails so I can display them next to my stories. I can't do captcha images for the forum. This is lame, because of potential bot registration/posting. But... I have fast web hosting on another server, and that server just so happens to have GD2+PHP. Can I potentially use another server's GD2 library for image manipulation? Thanks so much for your help!