[pmwiki-users] Defining and displaying chess diagrams in WikiPages
Martin Fick
fick at fgm.com
Wed Nov 23 13:30:20 CST 2005
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:27:23PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 08:30:03PM +0100, Christian Bartolomaeus wrote:
> > * On 2005-11-23 Patrick R. Michaud (pmichaud at pobox.com) wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > It's cleaned up and available at
> > >
> > > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/ChessMarkup
> > >
> > > Let me know how it works out
> >
> > maybe I messed something up, but the recipe doesn't work in my local
> > installation of PmWiki.
> >
> > I upgraded to 2.1.beta2 and installed the recipe as described on
> > Cookbook/ChessMarkup. But inserting
> >
> > Chessboard:r1bqkbnr/pppp1ppp/2n5/1B2p3/4P3/5N2/PPPP1PPP/RNBQK2R&t=.gif
> >
> > into a WikiPage had no effect at all.
> >
> > I had a closer look at chessboard.php and it seems to me that at least
> > the function "imagecreatefromgif()" is not defined.
>
> imagecreatefromgif() is a built-in PHP function, see
> http://www.php.net/imagecreatefromgif
>
> It's possible that your installation of PHP doesn't have this
> function included. If not, then I'll see if I can switch to using
> imagecreatefrompng() instead.
Specifically, you need the PHP GD libraries compiled in.
-Martin
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