Admin pThumb Problem

[Schaboo]

Hi,
I have wee problem with my shop.
When I'm adding a picture to product shop creates two files pThumb*** file inside admin folder
I'm going to have about 12k products so it can generate mess inside admin folder any clues how to change or disable it

[ridexbuilder]

A known issue - it's phpThumb itself, not reading the temp file directive. As per my Project instructions, change admin directory to remove write permissions (444) and problem is 'solved'. [A good idea to do this anyway ]

[ridexbuilder]

With 12k of products, I'd hope that you weren't putting them all in manually via the Admin!!!
Easy Populate and Irfanview batch resizing, with an FTP upload of images... see the wiki.

[Munt]

A known issue - it's phpThumb itself, not reading the temp file directive. As per my Project instructions, change admin directory to remove write permissions (444) and problem is 'solved'. [A good idea to do this anyway ]

When I set the folder to 444 i get "Permission Denied" when I try to access the admin.

I had phpThumb working in the oscthumb contribution for OsC. Just had a poke around it on OsCMax but can't figure it out.

Also when using Easy Populate it always adds an extra product with no information. Because I don't know what else it's doing wrong ... I don't use it.

[ridexbuilder]

Apologies must've had a blonde moment - 555, of course (read+execute), not 444. D'oh! [Must've responded to a configure.php query at about the same time ]

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The mechanism is phpThumb, without cacheing (not relevant for Dyn. Mopics) but it's implementation is somewhat different to standard osC. It took me literally weeks to figure out, especially with the provision for subdirectory images (not standard and shoehorned in from yet another contrib.) Additionally, thumbnails are now created optionally with width or height as the baseline - another 'enhanced' feature.

All the underlying features for phpThumb are there, however, including 'dormant' ones such as sharpening and watermarking. Plenty of provision for future additions, for those inclined/motivated. Just needs the relevant parameters in instant_update.php - warning: this file is fundamentally changed in the next release of 'Max, due to another new feature! At the same time, I'm renaming some of the variables, so it should be a touch more readable.

EJ


P.S. Not heard of that EP problem, sounds like an extra EOREOR in the uploaded file. If using Excel, then don't: try OpenOffice.

[Munt]

Thanks ... I'll try 555
Ahh sounds like a right complicated affair.

I'm currently using OpenOffice, the errors after uploading make me too paranoid to use it ... I'm looking for another addon at the moment. Something to change gross price quickly for all products.

[Munt]

adding this cron job will sort out things out. I run it once a week.

find /home/user/public_html/catalog/admin/ -name "pThumb*" -exec rm {} ;

[ridexbuilder]

That'll do the trick, Munt, but I'd prefer a root cause solution, of course.