Imagemagick problems

vvo · Post by **vvo** » Mon 10. Nov 2003, 13:30

Hi Oliver,
I have installed PHPWCMS on two different machines;

a) Windows 2000, with Apache, php, Imagemagick 5.5.7

Creating a thumbnail gives an error until I corrected in 'imagick.convert.inc.php' the path to convert. I just hardcoded the path and voila it is working.

But the Windows 2000 setup is my develop environment at home.

b) Cobalt RAQ4, with Apache, php, Imagemagick 5.4.9

Imagemagick is installed by our ISP and is installed in /usr/local/bin .
In a telnet window I can type convert and it comes with the correct output, giving me the version no etc.

However the thumbnail creating option doesn't work. I thought I could do the same trick as described above ...giving the true path to convert but unfortunately it doesn't work.

Can you help me? Or are there other users running with a Cobalt RAQ4 system?

Johan Vorsterman van Oijen, Netherlands.

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Tue 11. Nov 2003, 00:13

a) Windows 2000, with Apache, php, Imagemagick 5.5.7
Insert the path value to your environment setting var PATH.

b) Cobalt RAQ4, with Apache, php, Imagemagick 5.4.9
Do you have PHP SAFE_MODE on? Hardcoding the path is not neccessary on your ISPs server because there the path to ImageMagick is registered.

Oliver

vvo · Post by **vvo** » Tue 11. Nov 2003, 08:47

Hi Oliver,
Thanks for your reply.

a) after installing and resetting the W2k server the path is inserted but still the Imagemagick thumbnail creation doesn't work. Hardcoding the path is up until now the only solution that works for me.

But never mind the Cobalt server is more important, that's the production server.
My ISP installed Imagemagick that is correct but still phpwcms comes with the error 'error creating thumbnail'.

Could it have something to do with ANY temp directory Imagemagick uses?

Johan.

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Tue 11. Nov 2003, 08:49

What's with PHP SAFE_MODE?

Oliver

vvo · Post by **vvo** » Tue 11. Nov 2003, 09:01

Sorry Oliver,
forgot that part.
SAFE_MODE is off ....

http://www.murmur.nl/phpinfo.php

Johan.

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Tue 11. Nov 2003, 09:31

can try this in "act_imagick.php" in line 121? Make

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	echo "<tr><td align=\"center\" class=\"error\"><strong>error while creating thumbnail</strong></td></tr>";

to

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	echo "<tr><td align=\"center\" class=\"error\"><strong>".$create_preview["error"]."</strong></td></tr>";

What error is it?

Oliver

vvo · Post by **vvo** » Tue 11. Nov 2003, 09:49

Oliver thanks for the quick help so far.

The error is ....

'no thumbnail exists'

Johan.

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Tue 11. Nov 2003, 10:12

One again for debugging

make a new line after line 85 (before the comment //check if file really...) and put in:

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echo "<pre>"; print_r($create_preview); echo "</pre>";

Post the array info please.

Oliver

vvo · Post by **vvo** » Tue 11. Nov 2003, 10:41

Oliver,
Here's the requested output:

Array
(
[error] => 0
[max_width] => 538
[max_height] => 400
[image_name] => 1_4.jpg
[target_ext] => jpg
[thumb_text] => _NmqBWLkMuU
[image_dir] => /home/sites/site3/web/wcms/phpwcms_filestorage/1/
[thumb_dir] => /home/sites/site3/web/wcms/phpwcms_tmp/thumb_preview/
[image_thumb_name] => 1_4_NmqBWLkMuU.jpg
[command] => convert -colorspace RGB -type TrueColor -sharpen 2x40 -geometry "538x400>" -quality 85 -density 72x72 "/home/sites/site3/web/wcms/phpwcms_filestorage/1/1_4.jpg[0]" +profile "*" "/home/sites/site3/web/wcms/phpwcms_tmp/thumb_preview/1_4_NmqBWLkMuU.jpg"
)

Johan.

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Tue 11. Nov 2003, 10:59

Maybe there is a write access problem for "/home/sites/site3/web/wcms/phpwcms_tmp/thumb_preview/ ". Can you check this first - you need write access for "/phpwcms_tmp/thumb_preview/" and "/phpwcms_tmp/thumb_list/" - maybe also for "/phpwcms_tmp/".

ImageMagick seems to return no error itself! Hmm? [error] => 0;

Thank yoo
Oliver

vvo · Post by **vvo** » Tue 11. Nov 2003, 11:08

Oliver,
I thought you would say that so I already double checked the permissions.
Al mentioned directories are chmodded 777 ....

It really puzzles me ...

Thanks for the help so far.

Johan.

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Tue 11. Nov 2003, 11:44

MarcoB · Post by **MarcoB** » Thu 13. Nov 2003, 03:35

I have the same problem and the same error messages here too

do you allready know what solves the problem ?

vvo · Post by **vvo** » Thu 13. Nov 2003, 12:57

@MarcoB: there isn't a solution yet ....

Johan.

MarcoB · Post by **MarcoB** » Thu 13. Nov 2003, 17:48

what php version are you using ?

I'm using 4.3.3