Re: [PHP] thumbnail problems

2004-05-10 Thread Marek Kilimajer
Ninti Systems wrote:
I've searched the archives on this and, while I have turned up some
tips, they don't seem to solve my problem.
I an building a website for an indigenous organisation where jpg images
are uploaded, resized to a standard format, and thumbnails also
generated at the same time (so that is two resizes for each image). Most
of the time this works OK, but there are a lot of pages where many
thumbnails are just blacked out, eg:
http://waru.org/arakuwaritja.php?p=63

On some pages, all images are blacked out, eg:

http://waru.org/arakuwaritja.php?p=36

whereas on others they're all OK, eg:

http://waru.org/arakuwaritja.php?p=43

The people in the field taking and uploading the photos insist that the
format, color depth, etc, is not changing from photo to photo, and I
can't discern any differences. Yet some work, some don't.
I read somewhere that memory limitations could cause this, but still, it
only happens sometimes and not others. We are on a crowded shared server
I think.
I'm use ImageCreateTrueColor() after checking with ImageIsTrueColor(),
otherwise just ImageCreate(). The initial resizes almost always work
(down from 640x480 to 400x300), with the thumbnails it is looking like a
50% failure rate.
Try to always use ImageCreateTrueColor() - even if the original has only 
255 colors the thumbnails might have more.

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[PHP] thumbnail problems

2004-05-09 Thread Ninti Systems
I've searched the archives on this and, while I have turned up some
tips, they don't seem to solve my problem.

I an building a website for an indigenous organisation where jpg images
are uploaded, resized to a standard format, and thumbnails also
generated at the same time (so that is two resizes for each image). Most
of the time this works OK, but there are a lot of pages where many
thumbnails are just blacked out, eg:

http://waru.org/arakuwaritja.php?p=63

On some pages, all images are blacked out, eg:

http://waru.org/arakuwaritja.php?p=36

whereas on others they're all OK, eg:

http://waru.org/arakuwaritja.php?p=43

The people in the field taking and uploading the photos insist that the
format, color depth, etc, is not changing from photo to photo, and I
can't discern any differences. Yet some work, some don't.

I read somewhere that memory limitations could cause this, but still, it
only happens sometimes and not others. We are on a crowded shared server
I think.

I'm use ImageCreateTrueColor() after checking with ImageIsTrueColor(),
otherwise just ImageCreate(). The initial resizes almost always work
(down from 640x480 to 400x300), with the thumbnails it is looking like a
50% failure rate.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Michael Hall

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Re: [PHP] thumbnail problems

2004-05-09 Thread Curt Zirzow
* Thus wrote Ninti Systems ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 
 I read somewhere that memory limitations could cause this, but still, it
 only happens sometimes and not others. We are on a crowded shared server
 I think.

A quick sample of sizes of images does back this thoery up.  Most
pictures I sampled, the full picture's that resized properly were
~16KB, the black icon images original size were ~24KB - ~35KB

I would think that the GD library will complain at some point if
there are memory problems, make sure your settings (on the page
that generates the thumbnails) has error_reporting(E_ALL), and
monitor any errors that occure there.

Curt
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