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Guest can't upload images all of a sudden.

Anonymous — GMT

I don't know what happened. Advanced Guestbook 2.3.1 was working fine then the ability to upload an image broke. When you sign the guestbook you should be able to hit "browse" and upload an image which will be resized (my specifications are 100x100 and 800kb limit) and then a thumbnail created. It worked at first but now it doesn't. My website is www.retchingred.com and the guestbook is under "talk shit". Can anybody help me fix this problem?

Carbonize — GMT

Did you change anything to make this happen? Have you tried reuploading all the files?

Btw you may want to edit the template and language files to customise the guestbook to fit in with your site more.

Auron — GMT

Could be that PHP was upgraded to .10 recently.

Carbonize — GMT

Nope as mine is running on .10 (after I had to tell my hosts about the update) and image upload works fine. Unless they updated and reset their php.ini file.

Auron — GMT

[quote="Carbonize"]Nope as mine is running on .10 (after I had to tell my hosts about the update) and image upload works fine. Unless they updated and reset their php.ini file.[/quote]

hmm. k. Could be php.ini since that has a load of upload control commands/stuff in it.
May just take them a while to re-configure it.

Just thought doesn't the img. path get stored in the MySQL database?
Maybe there's a problem with that.

Guest's images not uploading.

Anonymous — GMT

When you say try "reuploading all the files" does that mean installing Advanced Guestbook on top of itself? Won't this erase all my customization and the guest's posts?

The other stuff you guys were talking about went right over my head. You probably get a lot of php illiterate people because Yahoo offers AG as a download. Sorry to be so dense.

thanks,
Cinder

www.retchingred.com

Carbonize — GMT

We don't mind where you downloaded it from so long as the file hasn't been tampered with. Yes by reupload I do mean overwrite the existing files. If you have altered the templates then feel free to keep them as they do not affect the way the script works. The entries and settings are stored in your MySQL database so are not affected by altering the files.

thanks.

Anonymous — GMT

Thanks, I'll try that. I didn't do anything except change the image size but then I changed it back again. I'll check back soon.

Works ok now.

Anonymous — GMT

I reinstalled AGB ontop of itself and the photo upload worked until someone used html to put an image in the body of their post. I reinstalled it a gain and disabled html and now it works just fine. Kind of a bummer to lose the previous posts. And I wish it was possible to use the html without losing picture upload. But all in all it's a great guestbook and I'm really glad you guys are so responsive to giving help.

Thanks, Cinder

www.retchingred.com

Carbonize — GMT

Enabling HTML is a dangerous thing to do as it then allows ANY HTML to be posted. Several guestbooks have been defaced because they had HTML enabled. You can post an image using the AGode [b][img]http://www.domain.com/someimage.jpg[/img][/b] so long as AGcode is enabled.

Darn it. It happened again.

Anonymous — GMT

AGB picture upload was working just fine. I reinstalled it and disabled HTML. It worked for a few days then stopped again! I really didn't change a thing or even touch any settings between the time it was working and it stopped. No one else has access but me. I really don't want to lose all the posts by reinstalling again. People have been enjoying the picture upload and now they are e-mailing me to fix it, help!

Re: Darn it. It happened again.

ET — GMT

[quote="Cinder"]AGB picture upload was working just fine. I reinstalled it and disabled HTML. It worked for a few days then stopped again! I really didn't change a thing or even touch any settings between the time it was working and it stopped. No one else has access but me. I really don't want to lose all the posts by reinstalling again. People have been enjoying the picture upload and now they are e-mailing me to fix it, help! [/quote]

Check your php variables - check to make sure that safe_mode is "off" - your webhost may have changed the settings?

Safe mode off

Anonymous — GMT

I just checked safe_mode and it is off. The image upload was working for a while and then it just stopped. When I reinstall, it fixes it but then just breaks on it's own. I wish someone could figure this out with me. My guestbook is located at http://www.retchingred.com/guestbook/ Thanks for everyone's suggestions so far.

Carbonize — GMT

Well the script can't be changing. Any error messages?

ET — GMT

Only other thought I have - I don't use the program to upload images so this may be out in left field - is there a maximum number of kbs you can upload into the image directory? Is it full?

JTD — GMT

[quote="ET"]Only other thought I have - I don't use the program to upload images so this may be out in left field - is there a maximum number of kbs you can upload into the image directory? Is it full?[/quote]

I would say that would depend on how much space your host setup for you myself. It really soinds like a host problem to me. Something either not enabled or not installed.

It started working all by itself again.

Anonymous — GMT

Weird. I'm not changing anything. someone just posted and was able to upload a photo. Not sure what's going on. I'll keep you posted on this interesting mystery.

Anonymous — GMT

Just tried it again and no luck I have a ton of space on Yahoo, not even close to use up. I wish I could get picture upload working.

JTD — GMT

Well i just made an entry in your guestbook with a picture. No problems at all.

That's so weird.

Anonymous — GMT

It worked for you and not for me. I just tried to upload a 56kb .jpg and it didn't work. I'm wondering if people posting animated gifs disables picture upload for a while then it turns back on? I noticed someone else posted an animated gif in the past and this seemed to happen. Just a shot in the dark.

JTD — GMT

Well I just posted in your guestbook twice withen a matter of 2 minutes and uploaded 2 animated gifs. One was 341kb the other was 138kb. I had no problems at all.

ET — GMT

[quote="JTD"]Well I just posted in your guestbook twice withen a matter of 2 minutes and uploaded 2 animated gifs. One was 341kb the other was 138kb. I had no problems at all.[/quote]

When you uploaded the images, did they show up in the preview function or did you go direct to "submit"?

When I visited Cinder's guestbook, the images do not get displayed in the preview - it could be that is what is causing people to think that the image upload function is not working?

Anonymous — GMT

Weird. Picture upload doesn't seem to like me. And yes I used the preview before sumbitting and although I got a "red x" box I posted it anyway and it didn't display. And it was a photo I had no problems posting before. It's all a mystery to me. I've asked others to try to upload a photo and see if it works for them or not. Thanks for trying to help!

ET — GMT

Cinder - the image gets lost if the person clicks on preview before submitting. - It is a mystery why it doesn't pull it in. I tried two times - once without the preview and once with the preview - as you can see, when I did not use the preview, the image showed up - but when I used the preview submit, the image did not show up.

Tried everything so far but...

Anonymous — GMT

Picture upload is broken again. It worked for a while by not clicking "preview" when uploading, but now it's broken again. Didn't change any settings. Just tried to upload a 150kb .gif and even took out the numerals in the file name but it won't work. My guests really want to use this function. Can anyone help?

Auron — GMT

Is there anything in the admin area saying how big the file that's being uploaded can be?
Maybe you went over that limit?

Other q's...

Any errors or warnings?
When does it stop working?
How does it stop working?

Anonymous — GMT

Just tried a tiny picture and it still won't upload. I have a max. of 600k and 320 x 80 as a border width and height. If I set this border ratio any larger it totally blows up previous thumbnails way too large. And even upon trying to set it higher it still won't upload a new picture. I have checked "create thumbnails" and set the minimum file size at 12kb.
Thanks for replying.

ET — GMT

[quote="Cinder"]Just tried a tiny picture and it still won't upload. I have a max. of 600k and 320 x 80 as a border width and height. If I set this border ratio any larger it totally blows up previous thumbnails way too large. And even upon trying to set it higher it still won't upload a new picture. I have checked "create thumbnails" and set the minimum file size at 12kb.
Thanks for replying.[/quote]

I have a think here on your page talkshit.html

for Click Me link - use the complete url - http://www.yoursite.com/guestbook/index.php instead of just http://yoursite.com/guestbook/

After you change it, let us know if it helps....

Carbonize — GMT

Tried editting the BASE_URL in config.inc.php ?

Still no luck

Anonymous — GMT

As ET suggested I changed the URL but it didn't help anything. And to Carbonize- I don't know what BASE_URL means and I don't know how to edit anything anyway. If you had "click by click" instructions I could probably do it. Thanks for your replies.
~cinder

Re: Still no luck

ET — GMT

[quote="Anonymous"]As ET suggested I changed the URL but it didn't help anything. And to Carbonize- I don't know what BASE_URL means and I don't know how to edit anything anyway. If you had "click by click" instructions I could probably do it. Thanks for your replies.
~cinder[/quote]

My guess is that the frames around the guestbook confuses the path.

http://www.proxy2.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=13890#13890 explains how to find the Base_Url and to change it.

still no luck

Anonymous — GMT

i tried it without frames and still have no luck, oh well.

how to turn off image upload

Anonymous — GMT

How do you alter the code so as to eliminate guests' option to upload images?

Carbonize — GMT

You can turn off picture uploading in the General Settings tab of th eadmin section.

Anonymous — GMT

thanks. too bad I never figured it out. I can post photos using ag code but is there a way to deliniate width?

Carbonize — GMT

No I'm afraid. All the guestbook does is look for
[img]imageurl[/img]
and turn it into