GD library support is required in PHP to manage graphics and images. This is a power full tool to draw graphs, diagrams on the fly and create attractive animations. You can create banners and buttons on the fly using gd library support.

We can enable or disable any support by working on PHP.INI file. Search for this file in your system and open it. You will find a line like this shown in the picture and check that your remove ; before this to make gd support enable.

We will try some steps here to identify GD support is enabled or not. Mostly PHP 4 and higher versions comes with GD support. Some time it may not be enabled. To know this we can use phpinfo function and check GD support is available or not. Here is an image of what phpinfo function displays in a GD enabled system.
The above image displayed by phpinfo function shows that GD support is enabled in the php system and ready to use.

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