Flash Album Gallery – Introduction
Are you looking for a better way to manage and display photos on your blogs??? Then you must try this fantastic Flash Album Gallery plugin. It provides a comprehensive interface for managing photos and images through a set of admin pages, and it displays photos in a way that makes your web site look very professional.
Flash Album Gallery – Installation
Upload the files to wp-content/plugins/flash-album-gallery.
flagallery-skins folder with skins
flash-album-gallery in the plugins folder
Activate the plugin. Be sure that after activation ‘flagallery-skins’ folder created successfully. If not, create it manually and install skins through admin Skins page or via ftp.
Add a gallery and upload some images (the main gallery folder must have write permission).
Galleries on FTP
Add/Manage Galleries
Insert Shortcode
Go to your post/page and insert shortcode tag easy with FlAGallery button
Insert shortcode
[flagallery gid=all name="Gallery"]
Additional shortcode parameters
If you use gid=all:
[flagallery gid=all name="Gallery" orderby=title order=ASC exclude=3,5]
Insert shortcode with custom sort options
This shortcode will display all galleries (except ID=3 and ID=5) sorted by title, ASC order.
Wanna display only three galleries in specific order? No problem:
[flagallery gid=4,2,5 name="Gallery"]
Above shortcode will display first gallery with ID=4, then with ID=2 and ID=5 in flash categories.
Custom skin parameters in shortcode
Check custom settings when insert shortcode and go to Skin tab:
[flagallery gid=3,4,5 name="Weddings" w=100% h=480 skin=green_style_pro]
Shortcode custom settings
GRAND Flash Album Gallery – Configuration
Before you do anything, go to the Options page. From here you’ll notice a number of options tabs for configuring different parts of the plugin, including General, Thumbnails, Images, Sorting and Roles.
General Options
General Options
- Gallery path. Most people won’t have to change this.
- Default size (W X H). Specifies the default size of the flash. This is the size at which flash are displayed. Height can’t be set with per cent. Defaults to 100% x 500.
- Delete image files. Uncheck if you want to the image files not to be deleted from the FTP when you delete images from a gallery. Enabled by default.
Thumbnails
After making changes to thumbnail options, you will need to regenerate thumbnails in all galleries.
- Width x height (in pixels). Specifies the maximum width and height for thumbnail images. Recommended size is 115 x 100.
- Set fixed dimensions. Ignores the aspect ratio of images and generates a thumbnail to the exact dimensions specified above. Enabled by default.
- Thumbnail quality. This is a percentage of maximum quality. Defaults to 100%.
Images
- Resize images. Specifies the width and height that images will be resized to. These are maximum dimensions and aspect ratio is maintained. Images are only resized when you choose to do that specifically. Images are not resized when you upload them. Defaults to 800 x 600.
- Image quality. This is a percentage of maximum quality. Defaults to 85%.
Sorting
- Sort thumbnails. Specifies how thumbnails are sorted when displayed in a gallery. Defaults to Custom Order.
- Image ID – Sorts thumbnails by the ID of the image. This works well if you import them in the order you want them displayed.
- File name – Sorts thumbnails by the name of the image file. This works well if your image files are named the way you want them sorted.
- Alt/Title text – Sorts thumbnails by the alt/title text specified for each image.
- Sort direction. Specifies the direction for sorting (ascending or descending). Default is Ascending, but if You display all galleries in shortcode default is Descending
Roles
Do you need help with your WordPress gallery? You can assign different roles to allow users to help you. This tutorial will show you how to assign different roles.
- Main Flash Album Gallery overview – This allows for the assigned role to have complete control of the FlAGallery. If there is a user that you want to assign to this position, drop the box down and select the user.
- Use TinyMCE Button / Upload tab – This option allows assigned users to upload images and slideshows. Drop the box down and assign this role to the user of your choice.
- Add gallery / Upload images – With this option, the assigned user can only create galleries and upload images. Again, drop the box down and select the user of your choice for this role.
- Import images folder – This option allows assigned users to import image folders from FTP.
- Manage gallery – This option allows the assigned user to manage the gallery. By managing the gallery, they can delete galleries, edit galleries, and more.
- Manage others gallery – This option allows the assigned user to manage the galleries created by other users. By managing the gallery, they can delete galleries, edit galleries, and more.
- Change skin – The skins option will only allows the assigned users to change the skin of the FlAGallery.
- Add skins – The skins option will only allows the assigned users to add new skins to the FlAGallery.
- Delete skins – The skins option will only allows the assigned users to delete skins through Skins page.
- Change options – This option allows assigned users to change the options of the WordPress gallery. This option gives users a lot of authority too.
After you have assigned the roles to the users of your choice, click the Update button. Be careful when assigning these roles. Someone can mess the entire gallery up if you assign the different options to different users.
Flash Album Gallery – Image Management
Add Gallery
The first thing you will want to do is upload some images. Before you can do that, you have to create a gallery. You do that on the Manage Galleries -> Add Gallery tab. Galleries are created below the path specified on the General Options page, typically wp-content/flagallery/. Creating a gallery actually creates a new folder on the server to store the images.
Add New Gallery
Choose the name of your gallery very carefully as once it’s been created it is very difficult to change it. You’ll have to rename the folder on the server’s disk.
Adding Images
Once you’ve created a gallery you can add images to it. There are two different ways to add images to a gallery, by uploading them and by copying them to a location and then scanning the directory.
Note that when uploading images, check that the php.ini file for your sever sets the maximum file upload size high enough.
Upload images one or more at a time. This is done from the Upload Images tab on the Manage Galleries page. You can select multiple files to upload and see progress of each image as it is being uploaded.
Upload Multiple Images
Import images already in your gallery folder. To do this:
- Go to the Manage Gallery page.
- Click on the Edit link for your gallery.
- Click the Scan Folder for New Images button.
Scan Folder for New Images
Here is a summary of the operations that can be performed on the gallery on the Manage Gallery page.
- Edit the name and description of the gallery.
- Edit the path (although this only changes the path, it doesn’t rename it).
- Delete the gallery.
Managing Images
Once you get images into a gallery, you can perform a number of different operations on them. Probably the first thing you’ll want to do is to annotate them. While you’re at it you may as well add a description to your gallery.
Manage Gallery Images
The Manage Gallery page provides a lot of flexibility and allows you to make a lot of changes at once. One thing you’ll want to be careful of, however, is to avoid doing to many operations that take a lot of time, such as regenerating thumbnails. Doing so can cause the operation to timeout.
Here is a summary of the operations that can be performed on images on the Manage Gallery page.
- Specify a description for each image.
- Specify alternate title text for each image.
- Delete an image. The image file itself will only be deleted if the Delete image files option is enabled on the General Options page.
- Generate new (create custom) thumbnails for selected images. This is especially useful when you change the thumbnail options.
- Resize images. This is useful when you set resize parameters on the Images option page.
- Scan the folder for new images as described above.
- View image meta data.
- Sort images. Only when Custom order option is selected on Options page.
- Lock images for unregistered users.
Skins
Add Skins
Important:
From plugin version 0.40 there is separate folder for skins outside ‘flash-album-gallery’ folder named ‘flagallery-skins’ (see screenshots at the begining of review). Plugin should automatically create this folder and move all skins in it. But some servers don’t let to do that due folder write permissions. So you need manually create ‘flagallery-skins’ folder and click Reset settings on Overview page.
Make sure that one of the skin is active and there must be default skin (Midnight). Never delete default skin (Midnight skin).
Skin Options
Each skin has own color settings, which can be changed here.
Background Color. Specifies the color of the background for flash. Background transparent, if checked option ‘transparent’. You also can specify color of text and buttons and color when rolling over them.
hi there
do you have video of flash album gallery – installation
Flash Album Gallery – Installation
Upload the files to wp-content/plugins/flash-album-gallery
Activate the plugin
Add a gallery and upload some images (the main gallery folder must have write permission)
Go to your post/page an enter the tag ‘[album]’.
If you would like to use additional Flash Skins (only a option), go to Flash Skins, download the skin and upload the file through Skins page in WordPress admin panel or through ftp in “skins” folder inside plugin
kind regards
egill magnusson
Hi, Awesome plugin! Do you have any idea how this site (saw your link) http://www.fotoimpressions.com/blog/ got the images to go across so large? I am sizing mine to be 900×600 but they are now showing that large. This link is how I’d like them to look.
Mine currently look like this: http://jcleggphoto.com/?page_id=240
Any ideas would be great, I’d love to get them to stretch across the whole blog post like my normal pictures do. Fotoimpressions and my blog use the same theme.
Thanks so much!
here what you can do:
1. Set size of the flash in General options tab to: 100% x 900
2. Add this to your theme styles (style.css):
.flashalbum { margin: 0 -20px; }Great work. It is definitely the plugin that makes my site look alot better.
I have one tiny “problem” though: I wrote a mini-plugin that displays a random Image from my galleries and one page where all gelleries can be accessed. I link from the random Image to the picture file itself and with an additional link below the picture to the page with all galleries.
What I would like to do is link to the page with all galleries and make it start with the specific picture. Is there any way (parameters etc) to link to a specific image in a specific gallery (while allowing the viewer to browse through the rest afterwards)?
Greetings from Germany,
Jens
I found a solution to my problem, it is more of a quickhack though, since I had to change the xml.php file in the skin directory of the plugin. It seems I cannot link to my solution files here directly, but they are available for download on my linked website. I hope this helps someone out there. :-)
Hello,
I have installed the plugin and it looks beautifull.
But I have one problem. When i select the page (with the gallery tag) for the first time (with Internet Explorer) nothing happens. After refresh the page or slect the gallery page for the second time the gallery displayed. When i tried the same under Firefox it works perfect directly the first time.
Do you know the solution
With regards,
Albert
I’ve tested on all browsers and everything is ok. I can’t see any problem
Hi
Thanks for this great plugin
I am just wondering…can I make the default to be that it is a MOVING slideshow ?
Thanks
Hany
There is a skin with auto slideshow you can download on PhotoGalleryCreator
hello
after have put the [flagallery gid=all name=”My Gallery”] i have this error
[IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2032"]
can u help me?
TKS
I need to see that
I’ve got the same error. How can I fix this?
This is .htacess file problem. Flash file can’t get access to xml and get “500 Internal Server Error”.
For whatever reason, the .htaccess file can become corrupt. So all you have to do is correct your .htaccess file.
How To Fix The WordPress Internal Server Error
Here is what you need to do :
1. Back up your current .htaccess file.
2. Delete all of the information from your .htaccess file and save it i.e. upload a blank .htaccess file.
3. Your blog should now be usable again so go into the admin area and set your permalink structure again.
4. Open your new working .htaccess file in an editor. Now copy over all the non WordPress .htaccecss information from your old backed up .htaccess file eg. any search engine htaccess information, ip blocks etc – basically everything Non-WordPress that you added before.
If you find that adding all the code from the previous .htaccess file is causing an Error again then remove it all and enter the information back to the working .htaccess file line by line to see what is causing the problem.
I am having a similar error but it’s #2036…is this the same thing? Will the .htaccess fix work for this error?
Thanks! I LOVE this plugin!
Vickie
And, actually, it was working yesterday..so this error just started happening today for no apparent reason. :(
nevermind! I found the problem! I had changed the path for my uploads after the fact, so the gallery couldn’t find them. That’s the #2036 error…so, problem solved. :)
Hi
I am just wondering if some helping me how to display the gallery!
I have installed plugin and is fine but i don’t know how to display the gallery if i need the code where to put it
can u help me ?
Hi, It is clearly stated above this page, However Go to any page that you like to display this gallery, then use your mouse CLICK on the FIAGallery Button on the top of your editing box then select any gallery you may have..
then it will drop a short code in your pose or page then view it..
very simple
Good luck
maj
[IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2032"]
I have the same problem as Lorenzo
Hi
can we delete the icon PGC in the bottom corner of the gallery?
on commerce skins no PGC button
hey Madam…. please say clearly. i also the same problem. can u help me? what can i do for hide that pgc link. pleassssssse
After rummaging through the masses of optional Slideshows and Galleries I am torn between two.
I wish to make the images I display on my page clickable to pave the way to a previous post I have done e.g. The IAMX album image I currently have I’d like to be able to click the picture and be directed to the post I have written.
I can do that on another gallery but yours is far more superior due to simplicity but it doesn’t appear to have that option. Could you help at all please? I intend to use it as an advert platform as well, I can put your site in it too if you can help at all.
Hello,
Very good job with this plugin !
I have a problem.
The pages of the gallery are black on Google Chrome. But on Firefox and IE8 all is OK !
I have the version 10 of flash installed.
What is wrong with Google Chrome ?
I thank you in advance for your answer.
I can’t get it working on neither Chrome or IE8. Both Firefox and Opera are working just fine!
Does anyone have a clue?
I installed this plugin and it worked wonderfully in FF but it showed up as a black screen in IE 8.
What I finally ended up doing was right-clicking on the screen in IE and disabled hardware acceleration and the pics magically appeared. At least this worked for me.
I should have been clearer. I disabled hardware acceleration in Adobe Flash Player by right-clicking on the black screen.
I wish there was a place that would list the gallery code. I never get it after it is created and I am not very good at code, to take your hint to know what to put in.
Having it show up as a column in the list of galleries would be nice.
Hi lisa, there is a video in this site that explain exactly how to do it, you don’t need to know coding at all.
watch this video, i hope it help you :)
By the way there is a little button on the top FIAGallery Button, if you click on that, then you select your gallery, then automatically will drop the code in your page, it means nothing to you, but it will display your gallery
http://codeasily.com/category/wordpress-plugins
Hi!
Thanks for a great plugin. I purchased the green-style-pro a few days ago and it is working fine, except I was wandering if there is a way to turn this into an autoslide show? [I realise you have a free download version of autoslide show, but since I've already purchased this template, I'd rather use this one]. Is there some simple code I can insert etc?
Thanks in advance for your help =0)
there is no way to turn slideshow on all skins excerpt skin named “SLIDESHOW”. For easy inserting shortcode in the post see video tutorial
Exactly the plugin I’ve been looking for to insert/display cartoon segments in my WP posts. Great features, excellent options. Altogether a great piece of work. Thanks!
Hi! Thank you for a great download :)
I installed GRAND Flash Album Gallery yesterday and add a Gallery to http://victoriavives.com/media/gallery and today is not appearing. Do you know why this can happen?
I was installing Google Analytics last night and I noticed that if I would put it in the Gallery page, the gallery won’t appear, so I removed the analytics part and the Gallery worked again, but today it doesn’t work and I am not sure why.
Thank you in advance for your help!
V
check your shortcode, please. I am sure that it is written with an error.
Oh! Thanks for your prompt response :)
I had try the shortcode for a while… I finally reset the settings and now it appears again! So everything is good now :)
Thanks again! V
I love this plugin. One question I have, can I use a link in the blog text to open a new page for viewing the gallery? I have several static pages where I will have a number of galleries on each page. Rather than having the static page have all of the galleries each with its own viewer appear one below another (with a bunch of shortcodes), I was hoping I could just insert links and then when clicked it would open a new window to view the specific gallery. (rather than have the shortcodes)
Thanks for the help,
Mike
In January I’ll publish new skin. In it you’ll be able to link to any gallery or image in the flash and use browser history
Hi there.
Great Plugin. looks fantastic.
I havfe two questions:
a. how can I manage the photos categories? I have many albums to display, dont want to display them all separately, but on the same gallery.
b. is the a way to display the info, i.e photos description automaticly under/over the images, without needing to click on the i icon?
best regards.
a. Watch video tutorial
b. There is no such option in current skins
Hello,
It it possible somehow to increase the FS (full screan) button in FIA Gallery plug in?
no, you can’t increase buttons in FlAGallery
is it possible to change this in core of the plug-in.
Hi there,
Ive been trying to get this plugin to work on WP 2.9.1 on windows.
It all seems to work ok except that it can never find the main images when it is trying to process the thubnails so I dont end up with any thumbnails.
The thumbnail folder is created and I think the permissions are ok..it puts the original file in the gallery folder but raises an error on upload that it cant find the image..presumably this is trying to reload the image to generate the thumbnail.
The same happens if I try to regenerate the thumbnails.
Thanks for the plugin
Rolf
PS is there a function call instead of a short code if I just wanted to dump a gallery in a theme somewhere..?
It seems that some of the file functions dont seem to be working with php on windows. Specifically all the is_readable, file_exists checks always return false for some reason…havent been able to find out why. It also means that it doesnt resize the images..
Perhaps someone knows why this is broken in PHP for windows or knows how to get it to work.
just copy shortcode generated in post an paste in
do_shortcode( $content )function. Example:I’m not able to create new thumbnails of the image.
When I insert new images in the gallery, the thumbnails are created automatically and the settings page, when I try to correct them, I have a message that was successfully updated, the more they are not being changed – what can I do?
manage gallery -> select images and choose ‘Create new thumbnails’ action and click OK
Can you make, when launched, the viewer open FULL SCREEN? Thanks.
thomas
It’s impossible due to Adobe Flash Player security
Hello, I am trying your flash gallery and I must admit I am impressed by what you offer. Still I am having issues with thumbnails. The thumbnails are not created when uploading images and I can not recreate them while being in the gallery. I have tried with big images and then I would get an error memory exceeded XX Mb. Then I have proceeded to the smaller sized images and the same story apart that the error is different now – Object XmlHttpRequest. I am clueless to what could be done. I am using 1and1.com hosting. Thank you.
just to add to the above – I am able to edit the thumbnails. I could stick to this but it takes a bit of the time to manually edit the thumbnails.
I was wondering if you were ever going to allow other people to make themes for this plugin? I want to use the gallery on my site but I wanted to change the design to match the rest of my site. Please let me know.
Any chance for supporting CDNs and/or CDN plugins? Or maybe just supporting using image URLs instead of having to upload each image?
just as a reference
i as well got the message as Ted ( on the 24th on march 2010 )
I get the error message “ Couldn’t load the Color XML file.Error #1095″
Make sure that new skins folder created successfully: ‘wp-content/plugins/flagallery-skins/’. Then install skins and click reset options.
Go to Skins page -> Skin options tab and make sure that there are right HEX-colors (without ‘#’ symbol). Click Save Changes button.
Hi! I LOVE this gallery!! I was wondering, though, is it possible to put links into the description text? Since my gallery is a portfolio of web sites, I would like to link to those sites outside of mine. I tried putting in html code into the description, but it didn’t work. :( Any tricks?
Thanks!!
Vickie
You can use links and change font of description like this:
<font size="16" color="#ff0000"><u><a href="http://google.com/" target="_blank">Search with Google</a>
</u></font>
Hello!
I’e got this message and I don not know what to do :(
Error! Please, check shortcode for this album…Example: [album gid=1 name="Album_name"]
My WP is 2.9.2 version and your plu 0.43…
Thanks in advance!
Coco
Upgrading to 0.43 keeps giving dbase error at frontend. “[IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2032"]”
Tried reset settings and even a clean install…
Hello,
I updated my GRAND Flash Album Gallery and after the update
the color settings doesn’t work anymore. I can change the colors,
but the output doesn’t change.
Does somebody know how I need to fix this problem?
Roy
check if flagallery-skins folder have write permissions
Greetings;
I continue to get “Couldn’t load the media file.Error #2035″ – I have reset, I have confirmed the number of image files, the spelling of directories, etc. I am at a loss. The plug-in is currently on the page “test”.
check if you have images on your FTP: http://petphotographyohio.com/wp-content/flagallery/mainpage/anakin500framed540.jpg
I can’t open none of them.
After your plug-in crashed my site, I rebuilt the site without the plug-in.
(delete this comment yet again and I’ll post elsewhere)
You can not say that your website was crashed because of my plugin. This gallery used by thousands of people and no one complained that the site of theirs crashed. It could be some hacker or virus on your server, but I do not want you to scare away my visitors because of your paranoia.
To be accurate.. the site (and the other dozen in the same account, on the same server) were fully functional until I added your plug-in. As soon as I added it, that one domain crashed. Nothing could be found by a browser, although all files and the sql database were both intact. No other site on the same account (all WP based) were affected.
And as soon as I reinstalled WP without your plug-in, there were no issues. I am now using a different flash-based plugin with no issues on any of the dozen sites.
You are correct that the evidence is circumstantial, but unless someone else’s virus was hidden in your plug-in’s installation, the level of coincidence you are asking me to believe in is astronomical- and would do be well in buying a lottery ticket.
Hi!
I added a gallery and sucessfully posted a new post. But, I have “ERROR” on the thumbnails on the bottom. You can check the error here:
http://myblog.nicky-dimitrov.com/2010/04/ogosta/
I will be very happy if someone help me.
Greetings!
Allowed characters for file and folder names are: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, -, _
Thank you very much! It works now!
sorry for double posting but this urgent
what happened to my gallery it was working fine then suddenly it stopped and showed the error
[IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2032"]
i upgraded the pugin, reset settings but the error is still exsisting , please i need a quick response
thanks
I deactivated all plugins to check if there was conflict with another plugin , but the error was still there , any help please?
also i made the htcc file like the instructions above but the problem is still there
you can check it on
http://glowings.net/gallery/
please needs urgent reply
I’ve been using your plugin for wordpress for a few month now without a problem. Now when I try to create a gallery I get this error: Couldn’t load the media file.Error #2035. I’ve read the other posts. I’ve done everything that you requested, still having the same problem. Help! What do I need to do?
Here is the link to the gallery: http://blog.livedinimages.com/blog/2010/05/05/built-images-2/
Hi, Love the gallery! I am receiving an error when I try to create thumbnails or resize images. From the gallery editing page, I select the images and choose theseoption on the dropdownmenu. The top progress bar starts, and I get this error for every image, even if I try 1 at a time:
A Failure Occured
Error 500 – Internal server error
An internal server error has occured!
Please try again later.
I watched your installation video and the only thing I see that may be off is my server settings are at 32 and not 64, (see below) Would this cause the error, and so you know how I could up my settings? (Looked at my host UI, but can’t find how) Thank you for your time & help!! Jana
Server Settings
Operating System : Linux (32 Bit)
Server : Apache
Memory usage : 13.26 MByte
MYSQL Version : 5.0.81-log
SQL Mode : Not set
PHP Version : 4.4.9
PHP Safe Mode : Off
PHP Allow URL fopen : On
PHP Memory Limit : 40M
PHP Max Upload Size : 20M
PHP Max Post Size : 8M
PHP Output Buffer Size : N/A
PHP Max Script Execute Time : 50000s
PHP Exif support : Yes ( V1.4 )
PHP IPTC support : Yes
PHP XML support : Yes
(Gallery in progress URL: http://www.hlrev.com/highlife/gallery#/0)
Check folder permissions or ask your hosting about this problem
hmmh.. ive tried again since my last upgrading of ya new version 0.46 wont work on the custom skins. It keep giving me these error:
Warning: include_once(/home/skulblak/public_html/wp_skull/wp-content/plugins/flagallery-skins/./..php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/skulblak/public_html/wp_skull/wp-content/plugins/flash-album-gallery/admin/skins.php on line 85
Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/home/skulblak/public_html/wp_skull/wp-content/plugins/flagallery-skins/./..php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/skulblak/public_html/wp_skull/wp-content/plugins/flash-album-gallery/admin/skins.php on line 85
and in my site it gave this error: Couldn’t load the Main XML file.Error #1088
I couldnt make it work. Kindly give ya advise on this cuz i love ya plugin so much and like to continue using it.. tq
I have exactly the same problem. Any suggestions?
never mind – I fixed it
great looking plugin!
great software I hope someday upgrade and pay
Hi, Firstly thank you for such a good plugin and I have to say I would be buying the pro version soon. However I have two different problems:
1. In my plugin page I get following error or notification: IMPORTANT: Update to latest version to avoid errors. Try click Reset settings on Overview page before ask questions.
I have reset few times but still same msg over and over.
2. When i go to create a gallery all my three options won’t open fully they appear in a very small square box that they are not clickable therefore i cant use the plugin to upload, so i managed using FTP but I want it to work correctly. :)
I am not able to attach screen shot here, but more than happy to send you.
I appreciate all work you have done, and I hope you have time to respond to my issue.
Thank you in advanced.
1. This is just message for those who want update to latest version.
2. send me screenshot via form on CodEasily.com About page
I have an error, no gd support? How do I go about resolving this?
You should install GD dll files (be sure that Apache has access rights to that location), but you need to tell PHP where it is by running configure –with-gd[=DIR] where DIR is the location of GD. For more information, refer to PHP Manual. Ask your hosting to help you.