you can store an error instead of filename with this code, you can get such an error if zlib is not installed and you upload a png image
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > That would make a nice slice. :) > > On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1:55:52 PM UTC-4, pbreit wrote: > >> I don't totally understand the question but perhaps this will help. Below >> is in my model which takes an image and then creates a thumbnail by passing >> it to a function (also in the model). >> >> >> db.define_table('item', >> Field('image', 'upload', >> uploadfolder=request.folder+'static/uploads'), >> Field('image_thumb', 'upload', >> uploadfolder=request.folder+'static/uploads', >> compute=lambda r: resize_image(r['image'], (150,130), >> 'thumb'))) >> >> def resize_image(image, size, path): >> from PIL import Image >> import os.path >> try: >> img = Image.open('%sstatic/uploads/%s' % (request.folder, image)) >> img.thumbnail(size, Image.NEAREST) >> root, ext = os.path.splitext(image) >> filename = '%s_%s%s' %(root, path, ext) >> img.save('%sstatic/uploads/%s' % (request.folder, filename)) >> except Exception, e: >> return e >> else: >> return filename >> >

