General Support: Importing Multiple Pictures Seems Broken

Hey guys, how are ya? I'm writing because I just installed the 3.0 beta over an existing 2.x installation, and I'm having trouble uploading multiple images from the import screen. After clicking the import button, it seems to work for a few moments, then arrives at plog-import.php showing a blank, white screen. For some reason, only 2-3 images are thus imported into the gallery itself. I've set all the directories and files to 777, so I'm unsure what else could be causing this problem. Please help.

Veloxi -

How many images are you trying to import at one time? Also, what is the filesize of each of the images?

Veloxi,

There hasn't been that much that has changed between beta2 and beta3 regarding imports. Plogger beta2 used the same phpThumb class (and Imagemagick's batch conversion utilities) as beta3. Did your webhost just recently update the server to include Imagemagick? If so, phpThumb is now using Imagemagick to try to get around size limitations (instead of using GD library), but it causing more resources to be used and possibly maxing out the memory limit as well. Check with your webhost to see how long ago they installed Imagemagick. I'll look into how to disable Imagemagick from the phpThumb class.

Veloxi,

I'm talking about the same versions that you are as well. :D There really hasn't been that much of a change from beta 2.x to beta 3.0. I really think that somehow your server is now using the ImageMagick library to create the thumbnails instead of the GD library (ImageMagick is faster and can get around filesize limitations, but it also uses more resources and memory than GD, IIRC).

So, if you want to try to force your server to use the GD library instead of the ImageMagick library, you can try the following. Open plog-functions.php and look for the generate_thumb() function (should be starting at about line 442). In that function you should find the following lines of code (should be about line 546):
// set options (see phpThumb.config.php)
// here you must preface each option with "config_"

// Set error handling (optional)
$phpThumb->config_error_die_on_error = false;
add some code after that to make it look like this:
// set options (see phpThumb.config.php)
// here you must preface each option with "config_"

// Set error handling (optional)
$phpThumb->config_error_die_on_error = false;

// disable ImageMagick
$phpThumb->config_prefer_imagemagick = false;


I think that should stop ImageMagick from trying to create the thumbnails and you may be able to get your imports to work. Try it out and let us know!

hmmm . . . Do you have a link to your gallery?

I've even tested that code on my site and it works just fine. I don't know why that would disable the thumbnails at all (especially if the thumbnails had already been previously created).