Broken thumbnails in Revolution 2.0.2

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victorjonsson Reply #1, 16 years ago

Good day people.

I can’t seem to get thumbnails working in the MODx browser. Also as an example, thumbnails appear broken when selecting an image in a Template variable.

I think it’s got something to with phpthumb. Although I can’t seem to find much about this in these forums, from what I’ve found is that it might have something to do with the fact that there is a ~ in my URL. I personally have no idea.

My development URL is like this: http://server.com/~site/

In the error log (/core/cache/logs/error.log)

(ERROR @ /~site/connectors/system/phpthumb.php) Error outputting thumbnail:
OutputThumbnail() failed because !is_resource($this->gdimg_output) in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 557

In the phpthumb FAQ:

Q: I’m getting is this error message:
Failed: RenderToFile(<filename>) failed because
!is_resource($this->gdimg_output)
A: You missed the call to GenerateThumbnail() before
RenderToFile() or OutputThumbnail.
See /demo/phpThumb.demo.object.php for an example.

Sombody must have tackled this problem before?

Any help appreciated

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allanb Reply #2, 16 years ago

I have read other posts on ~ in URL was with gallery and phpthumb cannot find post do not remember outcome.

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splittingred Reply #3, 16 years ago

Do you have the ’gd’ extension installed in PHP?

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victorjonsson Reply #4, 16 years ago

Yes GD is enabled.

From phpinfo():

GD Support enabled
GD Version bundled (2.0.34 compatible)

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splittingred Reply #5, 16 years ago

What about ImageMagick?

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victorjonsson Reply #6, 16 years ago

Nope, ImageMagick doesn’t seem to be installed/enabled.

At least no reference to it in phpinfo

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splittingred Reply #7, 16 years ago

Try installing it.

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victorjonsson Reply #8, 16 years ago

It’s hosted on a shared hosting environment so I doubt I can make that happen.

But I do have WAMP installed locally and a Ubuntu server.

So I’ll try installing MODx 2.0.2 on those and see if get any wiser and report back.

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victorjonsson Reply #9, 16 years ago

I can confirm that the problem is when "~" is in the URL.

I’ve tested 3 separate installations on 3 different machines. All MODx 2.0.2-pl traditional setup.

(BTW, none of those installations have ImageMagick installed.)

Local WAMP installation works fine. There was no "~" in the URL.
Localhost info:

Windows NT ARES 6.1 build 7600 ((null)) i586
gd

GD Support enabled
GD Version bundled (2.0.34 compatible)
FreeType Support enabled
FreeType Linkage with freetype
FreeType Version 2.3.9
GIF Read Support enabled
GIF Create Support enabled
JPEG Support enabled
libJPEG Version 6b
PNG Support enabled
libPNG Version 1.2.37
WBMP Support enabled
XBM Support enabled

Does not work (broken thumbnails, errors in error.log) at the development URL that contains "~".

Shared hosting:

PHP Version 5.2.14
Linux 2.6.18 i686
gd

GD Support enabled
GD Version bundled (2.0.34 compatible)
FreeType Support enabled
FreeType Linkage with freetype
FreeType Version 2.2.1
GIF Read Support enabled
GIF Create Support enabled
JPG Support enabled
PNG Support enabled
WBMP Support enabled
XPM Support enabled
XBM Support enabled

On my Ubuntu server it works fine without "~". When I setup the user_dir module for apache and tried again with the URL http://ip/~testuser/ the thumbnails broke like on the shared hosting.

My Ubuntu server:

PHP Version 5.2.6-3ubuntu4.6
Linux webserver 2.6.28-11-server
gd

GD Support enabled
GD Version 2.0 or higher
FreeType Support enabled
FreeType Linkage with freetype
FreeType Version 2.3.9
T1Lib Support enabled
GIF Read Support enabled
GIF Create Support enabled
JPG Support enabled
PNG Support enabled
WBMP Support enabled

So I think it’s fair to say that phpthumb has problems with "~" in the URL.

This might not be such a huge issue, and might even be phpthumb’s dev’s problem. But I feel it’s at least a problem for me because my clients can’t see their uploaded image while the site is in development. It takes away from the otherwise great, polished MODx experience.

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victorjonsson Reply #10, 16 years ago

UPDATE

I was testing the Gallery addon on the shared hosting server.

I created a album and uploaded a image and presto! working thumbnails for the images I’ve uploaded.

Still no thumbnails for other images in the MODx browser.

And I can see the new Gallery addon thumbnails in /core/cache/phpthumb/.

There seems to be a difference between how the Gallery addon handles images and the MODx browser and template variables.

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