GD image example causing syntax error

[pict3000]

Even though I literally copied and pasted the code below directly from the php.net manual on gd and image functions, I'm getting a syntax error message "unexpected t_variable" when I try to run the code. The culprit, according to the error message, is line 6 here:

$gd = imagecreatetruecolor($x, $y);

But there are NOT any missing semicolons or brackets in that line or before it. So why won't this code run for me? Here's the entire code:

<?php

$x = 200;
$y = 200;

$gd = imagecreatetruecolor($x, $y);
 
$corners[0] = array('x' => 100, 'y' =>  10);
$corners[1] = array('x' =>   0, 'y' => 190);
$corners[2] = array('x' => 200, 'y' => 190);

$red = imagecolorallocate($gd, 255, 0, 0); 

for ($i = 0; $i < 100000; $i++) {
  imagesetpixel($gd, round($x),round($y), $red);
  $a = rand(0, 2);
  $x = ($x + $corners[$a]['x']) / 2;
  $y = ($y + $corners[$a]['y']) / 2;
}
 
header('Content-Type: image/png');
imagepng($gd);

?>

Here is a link to that page (scroll down a tiny bit) if it helps:

 

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagesetpixel.php

 

BTW, my server is gd enabled. Maybe that version is too new? Somewhere in the back of my mind I remember that a newer version might exclude some functionality? I don't know...

[mac_gyver]

what programming editor are you using?

[Barand]

gd or gd2? imagecreatetruecolor() requires the latter;

[pict3000]

It's g2.

 

My programming editor, JEdit, wasn't used. I copied and pasted the code into a simpletext file and uploaded.

[mac_gyver]

and how did you get it into the simple text file? how did you upload it?

 

short-answer, there's nothing wrong with the syntax of the code (i just copy/pasted the php.net source and it works.)

 

you likely ended up with some non-printing characters or some htmlentities as characters due to the methods used.

[Barand]

Except for a missing

imagedestroy($gd);

after the imagepng($gd), that code was fine and ran without a hitch.

 

That missing line wouldn't stop it running, it would just waste memory.

[pict3000]

Okay great! Good catch.

 

That was my hello world for image manipulation and I botched it.

 

Thanks!!