I’m using PHP Version 5.3.2, so the included phpthumb script didn’t work. I found a fix for that, http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2937928&group_id=106407&atid=643974.
So now it worked when there was only one image in the content. When there were more images, the creation of the page was cut off at the title. Searched around in the sources and found in autothumb.php the function getphpthumburl.
At the top of this function there is an include: include(AUTOTHUMB_PATH . 'phpthumb/phpThumb.config.php');
After changing this to include_once(AUTOTHUMB_PATH . 'phpthumb/phpThumb.config.php'); it worked and all the images in the content are processed.

As I am not really into php it is all to possible that with this ‘fix’ I’m breaking something else or there is another solution, but I thought I’d mention it just in case.

Thanks again for the plugin.

This plugin doesn’t have anything to do with how photos react when you click them, that is handled by another plugin you have installed.

Sorry.

-Paul

Thanks in advance. Good plugin.

Half way down page I am getting an error message related to file path..Advice much appreciated.

Here is the path I am getting …I contact webhost and they told me to modify path in post area which is not ideal..There must be a way to modify plugin files to make this work?

Half way down page I am getting an error message related to file path..Advice much appreciated.

Here is the path I am getting …I contact webhost and they told me to modify path in post area which is not ideal..There muct be a way to modify plugin files to make this work?

I’m a newbie, but How it works?

I installed the plugin, enter the password, and…?

http://www.ultragraphik.com/histoirecourte/

As you can see, no “avatar”, it don’t works..

The 2 or 3 thumbails you can see on the site, are host on my serveur ( the custom fields: Image),
But, I thougt it possible to make a thumb from the first pic on my page, even if the image was an external image, hosted by amazon.com, in my example..

Help!!

The new version (0.5.2) doesn’t seem to be encoding the URL properly. I’ve had a wrap the link to the picture link in rawurlencode to get it to work. In the last version the plugin worked without me having to do this.

I commented about a fix for the off server links a little while ago which should also fix this problem as well.

http://maff.ailoo.net/2008/07/wordpress-plugin-autothumb-phpthumb/#comment-3636

Cheers,
Paul

Thank you for the bugfix, I just corrected it and tagged it as version 0.5.2 (should be available in a few minutes in the WP plugins repository).

– Mathias

I found a little issue in your plugin: it’s not getting external images and applying the PHPThumb, because it’s resolving it like internal images (from same domain).

Doing a little search at your code, I found that there’s an error in a conditional at line 54, to be more precisely:

if($wordpress_url['hostname'] == $image_url['hostname']) {

There’s no “hostname” on parse_url() function… But there’s “host”!

So, the correct code should be:

if($wordpress_url['host'] == $image_url['host']) {

And all is done. ^^

May you take look at this and correct your awesome plugin for us?

Thank you, man!

i have in my posts images like this http://ts.vimeo.com.s3.amazonaws.com/230/309/23030964_200.jpg
when i turn autothumb on i get an ‘error-image’ (the light blue ones) saying image missing. that is right because the http:// and domain whole domains gets truncated.

how to fix this? or why this part gets cut off?
thx you

I debugged the issue with external images. The if statement that checks whether the image is on the server or not a had a couple of errors in it.

// trim URL when it points to the same host
if($wordpress_url['host'] == $image_url['host']) {
$image = $image_url['path'];
$httpSrc = false;
} else {
// encode the link so phpthumb can use the remote image
$image = rawurlencode($image);
$httpSrc = true;
}

Hope that helps everyone and Mathias can update the plugin on WordPress soon because this plugin is awesome.

Cheers,
Paul

sorry for my late response but I’m quite busy at the moment as I’m currently moving to Spain for an exchange semester. As of this, I don’t know how much time I can spend in the next weeks on maintaining the plugin. If you like I could add you as commiter to the SVN-Repo, would be easier than handling around with patches Just drop me an email if you are interested (you can find my address on the about page).

– Mathias

I’ve done a little bit of testing with this on a single wp2.8.4 apache install and it seems to work ok

extra function:

/**
* autothumb_generate_rewrite_action
*
* 06/09/09 Ben - Added Extra action to ensure autothumb rewrite's are not-overwritten when
* WordPress updates its permalink/category rules
* @param object $wp_rewrite Reference to the global wp_rewrite object
*/
function autothumb_generate_rewrite_action($wp_rewrite)
{
$switch = get_option('autothumb_clean_urls');
$path = get_option('autothumb_clean_urls_path');

if($switch == 1 && $path !== false && !empty($path)) {
$wp_rewrite->non_wp_rules[$path . '/(.*)$'] = 'wp-content/plugins/autothumb/image.php?$1';
}
}


And then the action hook is:

add_action('generate_rewrite_rules','autothumb_generate_rewrite_action');


This respects any other plugins that have added their own non_wp_rules, it just appends the extra rule – however I’ve noticed that a lot of examples of using non_wp_rules don’t append the array, they instead overwrite it, so other plugins may or may not cause problems depending on how defensively they have been written.

A second approach I tried was to add a filter to mod_rewrite_rules – this way you can catch the .htaccess rules as a string and add your own immediately before the wp generated rules are written. This lets you completely insulate yourself from any other plugins, but you then have to rebuild the RewriteBase as well – it just felt messier.

One problem remains however, the current phpThumb approach means that if you link images to Facebook or similar sites (eg you use Addthis/Sharethis or someone just adds a post on their wall) it breaks as Facebook scrambles the hash in the querystring (or something like that). You can post the link ok, but when you go to view it facebook has ‘cleaned’ the url to the image.

Somehow I need to get the actual image path for the cached auto generated image once it has been created, rather they running through phpThumb to check for its existance.

Something a bit like this http://mrphp.com.au/code/project/miscellaneous/image-cache-using-phpthumb-and-htaccess, but that’s still open to abuse by external scripts…any ideas?

Just spotted a bug but haven’t traced it through yet – posting this before I forget – the rewrite rules don’t appear to get updated when you change your permalink structure.

Here’s how to repeat the bug (and how to work around it).
Start with a clean install and Authothumb clean URLs off.

1. Set your permalink structure to /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/
2. Now turn on Autothumb clean URLs
3. Verfiy that its working
4. Change your permalink structure to /archives/%post_id%
5. Autothumbs no longer work
6. Turn off Autothumb clean URLs and save
7. Turn them back on again
8. Autothumbs work again

The actual permalink structures don’t matter, its the change that doesn’t get captured and triggers the bug.

I’ve tried with just a normal image tag in the HTML, but I want to eventually get this to work with NextGEN Gallery.

I’m using WordPress MU 2.8.4a also…I’m going to keep trying things; I’ll post back here if I get it to work.

– Mathias