Creating black images when trying to create thumbnails

**Erwin Moller** · Feb 6 '07, 10:25 AM

Re: Creating black images when trying to create thumbnails

amsablotny@yaho o.com wrote:

Hi all,
>
I am a newbie at this. I am trying to create thumbnails. However, I
am only creating black image with the correct thumbnail size. I am
using php 5.1.6 and GD 2.0.28. Below is the code that I am using.
Can any one help?
>
Thanks,
>
Alanna
>
=============== =============== ===
>
function createThumbnail ($imageDirector y, $imageName, $thumbDirectory ,
$thumbWidth)
{
$srcImg = imagecreatefrom jpeg("$imageDir ectory/$imageName");
$origWidth = imagesx($srcImg );
$origHeight = imagesy($srcImg );
>
$thumbHeight =200;
$thumbWidth =100;
>
if($origWidth $origHeight && $thumbHeight < $origHeight){
$thumbHeight = $origHeight / ($origWidth / $thumbWidth);
} else if ($origWidth < $origHeight && $thumbWidth < $origWidth)
{
$thumbWidth = $origWidth / ($origHeight / $thumbHeight);
} else {
$thumbWidth = $origWidth;
$thumbHeight = $origHeight;
}
$thumbImg = imagecreatetrue color($thumbWid th, $thumbHeight);
>
imagecopyresamp led($thumbImg, $srcImg, 0, 0, 0, 0, $thumbWidth,
$thumbHeight, origWidth, $origHeight);
>
imagejpeg($thum bImg, "$thumbDirector y/$imageName");
}
>
if(!file_exists ("/home/alanna/public_html/pics/thumb/")){
if(!mkdir("/home/alanna/public_html/pics/thumb/")) {
echo "error making thumbs directory";
}
}
>
if(file_exists( "/home/alanna/public_html/pics/thumb/". $imagename)){
echo "File already exists";
}
else
{
>
createThumbnail ("/home/alanna/public_html/pics/full/", $imagename, "/
home/alanna/public_html/pics/thumb/", 100);
>
}

Hi,

To debug imagecreationsc ripts try the following:
1) Set the header for mimetype from image/jpeg (or whatever it is) to
text/html
2) Run your script.

That way your browser can actually display any errors in your script.
If you leave the mimetype to an image, the browser will try to interpret
your echos as an image, maybe resulting in a black image.

Of course, when you fixed your errors, you can switch back to image/jpeg to
check if PHP actually delivers an image you like.

Regards,
Erwin Moller
Regards,
Erwin Moller

Creating black images when trying to create thumbnails

Creating black images when trying to create thumbnails

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