Phoca Forum

I just installed Phoca 2.2.4 on Joomla 1.5. I created the directory/subdirectories and FTP'd the files as instructed via Filezilla.

I go to 'Multiple Add ' and it goes to a blank page with 'Stop Thumbnails Creation'. At this stage it APPEARS I am doing everything corerct but it NEVER switches from this page. I confirm on the website that it is setting it up correctly but there are NO thumbnails being created. After an hour of this...I checked the website, the file structure, everywhere I can think.

I verified that the 'Enable Thumbnails' option is Yes in Phoca and that the settings in the FTP was switched to 'Recurse All Directory and Files'. If I FTP'd the files original without this setting could that be the issue?

Any/all assistance is appreciated...thanks.

Hi,

do you have a recent Joomla! version?
Could you try multiple adding only 1 image (or try it via add)
Is there a 'thumbs' folder created in the images/phocagallery/yourfolder/? If not, please create it manually, then make sure that the thumbs folder is writable. (you can try first 755, if that doesn't work try 777 - this is insecure, so set back to 755 when you're done).

Regards, Carolien

I am using 'Joomla! 1.5.5 Production/Stable [ Mamni ] 27-July-2008 22:00 GMT'

I tried using the single add and that does not work; it goes to the 'Creating of Thumbnail' page (...administrator/index.php?option=com_phocagallery&view=phocagallerys) and just hangs (sits idle forever). I go to the file area and confirm nothing has been created.

The 'Thumbs' folder has been created and I confirmed it is writeable and set to 775.

I LOVE THIS COMPONENT and it is PERFECT for what I want...but, it seems the thumbnails just are not cooperating.

Could it be a SEF issue?

I don't know if it'll solve your problem, but 1.5.5 is kinda old. We're at 1.5.12 now.

could you try to set the thumbs folder to 777 for a moment (to be really sure it's writable).

What's you memory limit and what's the size of the original image? if it's quite large (say > 2 MB's), then try to make it smaller and upload/create again.

Regards, Carolien

I have had this problem too, and it took me a while to figure it out, with a gallery of 270 photos!
The problem was I found that one of the images was 2mb in size. (the rest of the images were only around 300kb).

Also having "Pagination Thumbnail Creation" set to "Yes" caused all of the thumbnails for the page to be created when I clicked to the next page in admin multiple add. So I turned this to "No" so I could individually select the images I wanted to thumbnail.

I also found that each time after an error occurred and I clicked on "Stop thumbnails creation" I had to go into the parameters and turn Thumbnail Creation to "yes" again.

So by the time I had created all the thumbnails except for one, I was still getting the error. I decided to check the file size of the last remaining image and found it to be 2mb much larger than all the others.

So I resized the image, down to about 600 pixels wide, which brought it down to about 240kb in size, uploaded it again and it worked fine!

I didn't know which image was causing the error, so I used "Pagination Thumbnails Creation" set to "Yes" so you can find out which page is causing the error. I found that only one page was causing the error, and then was able to isolate the image file. But if I had thought about it a bit more I should have checked the image file sizes first to see if there was any images that were much bigger than the others.

So check your image file sizes and make sure they are not too big. I dont' think its anything to do with the Joomla version although you should be on the latest version unless you want your site hacked.

I don't know what the maximum image size limit is but you shouldn't need the images bigger than 600 pixels wide anyway with a resolution of 300.

Hope this information is of some help to you.

Hi, it depends on server performance, and GD performace, so the biggest problem is resolution. Normally the 1024x768 should not be problem (creating thumbnails) but e.g. resolutions which are produced by camera (more then 2000 or 3000) can be problem for GD which will have no time for resizing them. In this case the image should be resized on PC or it can be resized while e.g. java uploading too (if this is set in parameters).

Jan

Studiowest, problem is solved from your explanation. Thank you.

I made some changes and now I am unable to see the thumbnails next to the categories; I have re-configured but it is NOT going back; I am perplexed. I was going to re-visit the documentation.

Thanks again!

I also figured out the other issue.