Yii 2 giving an exception when clicking on the default contact tab

Question

I am getting this error when I run on my mac with localhost.

Either GD PHP extension with FreeType support or ImageMagick PHP extension with PNG support is required.

I think the problem comes with the PNG picture that is being rendered by default on the contact page. All of the code is the basic code that is given by the Yii framework: here Only happens when I click the Contact tab on the navigation bar.

Solution 1

For solve problem, first install php-gd module on your system. After that open php.ini on your editor and search for ;extension=gd.so and remove the heading ; sign. Then restart your apache service ;).

For Arch Linux you can do followings (Lines that begins with # are command of terminal):

• # pacman -S php-gd
• # vim /etc/php/php.ini
• Press / and type gd then press Enter
• Find ;extension=gd.so and convert it into extension=gd.so by moving cursor on ; sign and press x
• Press Esc and type :wq and press Enter
• # systemctl restart httpd.service

Solution 2

With this two lines it is okeyokay:

sudo apt install php-gd

sudo service apache2 restart

Solution 3

As suggested in the comments.

The contact form contains a .png picture in the form of a captcha image. The captcha image is used there to prevent spam being send via the contact form.

• You can edit the view page and remove the captcha
• You can install php-gd or php-imagick extension

Comments

[Mr C]

windows, default php.ini file is comment this gd extension, so we only need to uncomment and restart php-fpm process.