Re: thumbnail problems

just turn on the error report on php and look for errors.. and if you use @ in front of any method, take it away.. I think you've got some error on your script that dosent show "Ninti Systems" <office@ninti.com.au> wrote in message news:1084152806.1064.25.camel@localhost... > I've searched the archives on this and, while I have turned up some > tips, they don't seem to solve my problem. > > I an building a website for an indigenous organisation where jpg images > are uploaded, resized to a standard format, and thumbnails also > generated at the same time (so that is two resizes for each image). Most > of the time this works OK, but there are a lot of pages where many > thumbnails are just blacked out, eg: > > http://waru.org/arakuwaritja.php?p=63 > > On some pages, all images are blacked out, eg: > > http://waru.org/arakuwaritja.php?p=36 > > whereas on others they're all OK, eg: > > http://waru.org/arakuwaritja.php?p=43 > > The people in the field taking and uploading the photos insist that the > format, color depth, etc, is not changing from photo to photo, and I > can't discern any differences. Yet some work, some don't. > > I read somewhere that memory limitations could cause this, but still, it > only happens sometimes and not others. We are on a crowded shared server > I think. > > I'm use ImageCreateTrueColor() after checking with ImageIsTrueColor(), > otherwise just ImageCreate(). The initial resizes almost always work > (down from 640x480 to 400x300), with the thumbnails it is looking like a > 50% failure rate. > > Thanks in advance for any assistance. > > Michael Hall