Topic: buildgallery.php finds GD, does not generate thumbs
hey guys,
First time trying to use this gallery setup, and it's mostly going well, but thumbnails are not being created. First of all, per the FAQ, I tried with useCopyResized set to both true and false with no results. As background, the server is 32bit FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE, PHP 4.4.7 and Apache 1.3.37. Here's the output of the PHP script:
Creating XML and thumbnails for SimpleViewer.
( buildgallery.php version 1.9, running under php version 4.4.7, GD library version 2.0.28)
12 jpg images found in images folder.
Sorting images by date. Sort in reverse order.
1. 032803-04.jpg
2. 111503-01.jpg
3. 032803-03.jpg
4. 032803-02.jpg
5. 111503-07.jpg
6. 111503-02.jpg
7. 111503-03.jpg
8. 032803-01.jpg
9. 111503-06.jpg
10. 111503-05.jpg
11. 111503-04.jpg
12. 115-1503_IMG.jpg
Successfully created XML document: gallery.xml
Warning: the useCopyResized setting has been set to true. Thumbnails will be of lower quality. You might want to create the thumbnails yourself in a graphics application such as Photoshop.
Attempting to create thumbnails in thumbs folder:
And it stops, with no errors, no anything about making thumbs. I had chown -R 777 thumbs and images, and both .xml files are also 777. Nothing has been changed with the paths, and all .jpg extensions are lowercase. I also tried with the older 1.7 version, but the output of the script had an error: Cannot open XML document: $file. Change permissions to 0777 for $file and parent directory.
In case it matters, here's my PHP configure line:
Configure Command => ./configure --with-apache=/usr/apache --with-mysql=/usr --enable-track-vars --with-bz2 --enable-ftp --with-zlib --enable-mbstring --enable-memory-limit --with-gd --with-png --with-libpng --with-bcmath --enable-exif
I tried --with-gd-dir and --with-gd-dir=/usr/local/bin , but GD support did not show up in phpinfo(); and obviously the buildgallery.php script didn't see it either.
When I use $ for i in *.jpg; do convert -quality 100 -resize 65x65 $i ../thumbs/$i; done the thumbnails are created and my gallery loads fine. Afterwards, when I ran the script again just to see what it'd do, it showed the thumbnails already exist.
It's not a huge task to create my own thumbnails as shown above, but if the script is there and is supposed to do it.... ;) Any help is appreciated.