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Tim Thumb Thumbnails have broken sometime in the last 6 months. Where do I look?
- Started 3 months ago by mclarkson
- Latest reply from Ben
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Hello. I built a blog for my client over a year ago, based on MimboPro. It has not been updated in several months, nor has Wordpress been updated on that site for several months. Everything was working fine the last time I looked in on it. Yesterday, the client told me that the thumbnails on the front page have disappeared (which they have.) The blog is located here: Beyond making sure the cache permissions are set to 777 (they are) I don't know where to look for this problem, or what can have triggered it since I've changed nothing since the time it worked. Can you give me a pointer or two? Thanks! Mark |
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Hi, I had simmilar problems with timthumb not working after a while in nominate: Best Regards |
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Hi Mark - unfortunately there were some security complications with TimThumb and so many webhosts have increased security which in turn sometimes stops things working properly. The first thing to do would be to make sure you have gone through the troubleshooting guide here: http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/2010/11/timthumb-hints-tips/ |
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Thanks guys! I'll check those two threads out and let you know what I find. |
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Okay. I've put up the newest Timthumb script. I've read the thread Holger suggests, but it contains a lot of references to TOUCH errors which I frankly don't understand. I'm not seeing any errors anywhere (or don't know where to look). Just no thumbnails. (Also, the posts in that thread are cut off and I can't read all of the words for some reason.) The script does not seem to be generating new cache files as my new cache directory stays empty when I reload the page. |
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"(Also, the posts in that thread are cut off and I can't read all of the words for some reason.)" You can highlight all the text and then copy and paste it to an (txt) file to read. "I've read the thread Holger suggests, but it contains a lot of references to TOUCH errors which I frankly don't understand. I'm not seeing any errors anywhere (or don't know where to look). Just no thumbnails." It is a while since I had the problem, but if I remember right, I din't see the errors in the posts itself, just broken images. I could view the posted errors by direct call the timthumb image urls in the browser adress bar. Check your sourcecode and find the exact Imagepath for the images. Should be something like this: What I did for my case to get it work was chmod 777 all of this tools/cache/ Chmod 777 the "timthumb_cacheLastCleanTime.touch" was the final step I did because I read the error message "* Could note create cache clean timestamp file." and it finaly fix it so far. |
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Hmmm... I can't find a 'tools' folder anywheres. I have a temp and cache folder in my scripts folder, but no 'LastCleanTime.touch' file there. If I try to display the image thumbnail directly, I get this error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /domains/iamgenz.com/html/wp-content/themes/mimbopro/scripts/timthumb.php on line 144 Is that helpful? Line 144 seems to be the first line in the definition of the timthumb class: class timthumb { |
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Hi There - I'm not sure why it's still not working. If you could contact me through the helpdesk - and send me ftp information for your site, then I would be happy to take a look and see if I can work out what isn't working. |
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Ben, I'll do that. Thanks. |
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ok - it's all fixed now. For the reference of others, the issue was the version of PHP being used. Once PHP was upgraded to 5.X there were no problems. |
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