Yosemite PHP support for imagecreatefrompng

A couple of years ago I would have posted instructions on how to rebuild PHP and/or GD. These days I say just install Vagrant and run it on Linux. You would never deploy on OS X anyway.

You are right, Yosemite's PHP comes without PNG and FreeType support which makes it virtually unusable for web-workers.

A solution is to use the Homebrew package manager to painlessly build and install a complete PHP and replace it in Apache's config.

I have described the whole process in detail in this Stackoverflow answer:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/26505558/430742

Hello Everyone,

I found this article: http://www.fritzw.com/2014/12/10/fatal-error-call-to-undefined-function-imagecre atefrompng-php-mac-os-10-10-yosemite/

Please install follow package:

curl -s http://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 5.6

and please add follow line to your bash profile:

export PATH=/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH

source ~/.bash_profile

Restart your server and everything, should working perfect.

I am the only one that thinks it is ridiculous that in 10.10 png support was dropped from the standard php install while it was working fine in 10.9?

I think it would be appropriate to file this as a bug..

Mattijs wrote:

I am the only one that thinks it is ridiculous that in 10.10 png support was dropped from the standard php install while it was working fine in 10.9?

I think it would be appropriate to file this as a bug..

Which is the more ridiculous? Dropping PNG support or continuing to use a web platform that would do something like that?

Well in my case... i need create png images in server so... if i can't use png library for php in mac... it's to slow make changes, upload this changes and prove them... it isn't ridiculous use web platform... it's too slow on this way...