GAE PHP 8.2 GD extension not working?

[jacklul]

It seems that GD functions are missing despite documentation stating that GD extensions are enabled by default - according to this.

I noticed that after I migrated my app from PHP 7 to PHP 8.2 environment and imagecreatefromwebp was not found - it worked fine in PHP 7 environment!
I tried putting "extension=gd" in php.ini but it causes the deployment to fail.

Is this a bug or I'm missing something?

[christianpaula]

Hi @jacklul,

Welcome to Google Cloud Community!

You're running into a known discrepancy between the development environment and production for GAE's PHP runtime.

Here's what's happening:

• The documentation is correct – the GD extension is enabled by default in the production environment for GAE's PHP 8.2 runtime.
• The development server included with the GAE SDK might not have the GD extension enabled by default. This explains why imagecreatefromwebp worked in PHP 7 but not 8.2.

Recommended: Use a custom PHP interpreter with GD enabled during local development. This ensures your development environment matches production.

[jacklul]

My app is currently deployed with php82 runtime and it is where the issue is happening, I do not mean local dev server here.

Edit: it seems like it's known issue and awaiting a fix... https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/282297737