Another post for my fading memory, how to install the GD libraries for your Leopard Apache installation running PHP 5.2.5. I will be using these libraries in a forthcoming blog about the use of ‘sparklines‘ to present complex performance monitoring data.

Now on with installation. Thanks to topicdesk for leading the way with detailed OSX 10.5.x server installation instructions. Here’s my own shorthand version …

When installing the NuSOAP class on a system with PHP5, you may get the following error:

“Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class soapclient in ../nusoap.php on line 7240″

A quick google search will reveal the following cause.
As PHP5 already has a built in class called soapclient, this is where the clash is…

The best way to fix this problem is to rename all instances of soapclient with nusoapclient in the lib and samples directories that come with the 0.7.2 version of NuSOAP.