imagecreatefromjpeg and similar functions are not working in PHP

Question

I’ve searched for this and the solutions provided in past questions are completely incomprehensible to me. Whenever I run functions like imagecreatefromjpeg, I

Answer 1

You must enable the library GD2.

Find your (proper) php.ini file

Find the line: ;extension=php_gd2.dll and remove the semicolon in the front.

The line should look like this:

extension=php_gd2.dll

Then restart apache and you should be good to go.