Watermark Issues

[belindaj]

We're running GD2, I have the watermark file saved as a png file and uploaded to the image directory, the paths are specified in watermark.php and also in the Edit Options screen.

However, on the ad display page(s), the thumbnail shows up as a red x image, but clicking on the Supersize link - brings up the full size image and it DOES have the watermark in place.

Could this be due to the thumbnail size dimensions being smaller than the watermark image?

The thumbnail image DOES show up in the gallery - WITH the watermark (proportionally small) in place - but on the ad page itself - the picture is a red x image (in other words file not found)

[belindaj]

If I check the properties for the missing image placeholder - it's pointing to http://www.mydomain.com/classifieds/...33/2clouds.jpg

The supersize picture - the properties are http://www.mydomain.com/classifieds/...ouds-large.jpg

What's the discrepancy?

[belindaj]

ok I still don't know why the one image is not working - but if I disable the "on the fly" option - it's now working properly.

Can you still tell what was wrong from what I have posted as an example?

[Chuck S]

Can you please post real url's so I can see.

[belindaj]

Unfortunately no I cannot because all the test/dummy ads have been deleted since we went live last night. (since removing the on-the-fly option made teh permanent watermark option work correctly I'm guessing)

[indianBoy]

hi
i have the samne problem! the on;ly diference is the problem was not solved when i cjhecked the on the fly option. the thumbnails are still showing up as a big red X on the product page but the supersize picture is showing up fine!

[indianBoy]

this defintely seems to be a bug. the response as the support is overwhelming on this forum. i feel that if we pay for something it should be a little more prompt than this in resolving our issues. although i understand many of the support on the forum is provided by the customers themselves.

i too solves this problem when i switched off on - the fly watermarking.

anyone for help?

[Chuck S]

Indianboy you are postng an 12am on a friday evening.

On the fly watermarking requires you to edit the watermark.php file in your classifieds directory and place the path to the watermark image and the data directory within that file for it to work

[indianBoy]

i wonder how could i have missed the so obvious solution :

" $srcfilename = "home/xbhp1/public_html/classifieds/data/$file";
$watermark = "home/xbhp1/public_html/classifieds/watermark.png"; "

i am getting the watermark! but the on the fly option doesnt work!

[Chuck S]

The watermark needs to be absolute path which means URL

$watermark = "http://www.domain.com/classifieds/watermark.png";

Also note png watermarks are used with gd and gif with imagemagick

[Notion]

Hi

I have recently purchased PhotoPost classifieds 2.5 Beta and found the same problem. - Thumbnail not showing (red cross) and superzize image ok.

However, after many hours of editing paths and chaging settings I have just seemed to have solved the problem.

My settings that work:

Global options.
- Imaging Integration (IM or GD) - SET TO GD2

Show Ads Options.
- Enable On-The-Fly Watermarks - SET TO NO

It would seem that 'Enable On-The-Fly Watermarks should be set to YES, but it worked for me setting this to NO.

Within the Watermark.php file, I have the paths set to /serverpathtofile/classifieds/data/ (serverpathfile being the path to your server which can be found when running phpinfo.php)
and /serverpathtofile/classifieds/yourwatermarkfile.png

Hope this helps

Colin

[Chuck S]

As noted in my post above for on the fly watermarks to work

$srcfilename needs to be server path

$watermark needs to be absolute path (URL)

In both instances in this thread watermark is using the server path not url hense you get red x's. If you set $watermark to a url it will work.

Supersize images are not watermarked at all since they are only direct link to files that load in a new browser window.

[giggler]

I'm also having problem with this and have tried both GD2 setting using watermark.png and then tried imageMagick with watermark.gif. GD2 leaves the image blank while imageMagick show the image, but no watermark.

$srcfilename = "/usr/serverpath/vhosts/sitedomain.com/httpdocs/classifieds/data/$file";
$watermark = "http://www.sitedomain.com/classifieds/images/watermark.gif";

HELP!

[Chuck S]

Well lets try a test here. In watermark.php add this line in bold

Content visible to verified customers only.

[giggler]

Thanks Chuck,

Is "require "pp-inc.php";" suppose to be on the top part of the file? It's not there on the file that I downloaded.

Added the line in bold didn't get the watermark to show up, but it did make it so that at least the images shows up using GD2 and PNG setting and on the fly on OFF.

But, still no watermark...

[Chuck S]

Don't worry about the pp-inc.php line

You have a link to your install so I can see. You should get an error if or something.

Try setting both $srcfilename and $watermark as server paths now.

So we have determined your main issue was register globals are off and it did not know what $file was

[giggler]

I got one image to work and then I don't know what happend, now it has this when I upload the image:

Warning: imagecreatefromjpeg(): '/serverpath/classfied/data/2/1blue.gif' is not a valid JPEG file in /serverpath/classifieds/image-inc.php on line 166

Warning: imagealphablending(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /serverpath/classifieds/image-inc.php on line 167
Warning: imagecopy(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /serverpath/classifieds/image-inc.php on line 173

Warning: imagejpeg(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /serverpath/classifieds/image-inc.php on line 174

Warning: imagedestroy(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /serverpath/classifieds/image-inc.php on line 176

Do I need to turn register globals ON?

$srcfilename and $watermark are as server paths

UPDATE: I just realized why that one image did work. It's in JPG format, so it's the gifs that aren't working....

[Chuck S]

onthefly watermarks are not compatible with gif images correct.

[giggler]

GIF doesn't work when I set On the fly to NO as well. Is there a fix to add compatibility with gif?

[Chuck S]

No there is not as on the fly only works with jpeg images.