[ansel] debuging for my ansel problem

[Michael Rubinsky]

Quoting Helmut Schiefer <Helmut at 4Schiefer.de>:

> Hello all,
>
> in the last hours I did a litle bit debuging for my amsel problem.
> Short introduction:
> I upload a photo and I didn't see any fotos in any galleries or
> screens. I can download the photo to my desktop. If I click on the
> gallery i get an error message in my horde.log called:
> imageCreateFromString: Non-static method PEAR::raiseError()
>
> Now the results of my test. The photos are stored in horde vfs. If I
> do a query to the vfs I found only the original photo, no others.
>
> If I click regenerate: thumbs and minis will regenerate and I can see
> them in my browser and the error messages goes away. The problem: The
> image screen isn't generate.
>
> First question: Any Idea why the screen image isn't rebuild?


Yes. There seems to be an issue with the following combination: Using  
the PHP GD library and PNG images in Ansel. The temporary work around  
is to either generate JPG images or, and this is my recommendation,  
don't use GD, use the convert utility by putting the path to your  
convert binary in the ansel config.

> Second Question: Any Idea why the images aren't generate during the upload.
> My ansel conf: conf image autogen = 25
> conf image pretty thumbs is checked

Not 100% sure, but this might be related to an issue with E_STRICT  
errors being raised by PHP in the gd library. Still tracking this one  
down.


> last question: What is the best place to store more than 1000 photos
> for a familiy server. In the database (blob) or file system?

I personally use a file based VFS since I also serve the images  
directly out of the VFS - bypassing the need to feed them through PHP  
(this is the VFS-Direct option in ansel's config).



Thanks,
mike

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