Could not save the output file './Thumbnails/test1_thumb.jpg

[geo__]

Hi,
I have this simple program:
<?php
require "class.dropshadow.php";
$ds = new dropShadow(true);
$ds->setShadowPath('./shadows/');
$ds->loadImage('./images/test1.jpg');
$ds->resizeByPercent(50, 0);
$ds->saveFinal("./Thumbnails/test1_thumb.jpg");
?>

Debug message from function resizeByPercent: Image size is 300 / 225

Debug message from function _saveImage: Could not save the output file './Thumbnails/test1_thumb.jpg' as a jpeg.

the directory Thumbnails is writable by everyone (666)
directory structure is
test
test/images
test/Thumbnails
test/shadows

Am I doing something wrong?

I just want to resize the image, not add a dropshadow.

[amnuts]

It might be needing your full path. On the saveFinal call, try something like this:

$ds->saveFinal(dirname(__FILE__) . "/Thumbnails/test1_thumb.jpg");

Also, make sure that it's 'Thumbnails' and not 'thumbnails'.

Andy

[geo__]

Tried the thing you suggested, but it didn't work.
the Case of the dirs is correct.

drwxr-xr-x 5 32038 sociale 4096 Aug 29 10:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 32038 sociale 4096 Aug 29 08:43 ..
drwxrw-rw- 2 32038 sociale 4096 Aug 29 08:44 Thumbnails
-rw-r--r-- 1 32038 sociale 18810 Aug 29 09:28 class.dropshadow.php
drwxr-xr-x 2 32038 sociale 4096 Aug 29 09:54 images
drwxrw-rw- 2 32038 sociale 4096 Aug 29 09:25 shadows
-rw-r--r-- 1 32038 sociale 352 Aug 29 10:16 test.dropshadow.php

ps: the showFinal works

[geo__]

plus I 've got another problem.
When I try this:
require "class.dropshadow.php";

$ds = new dropShadow(true);
$ds->setShadowPath('./shadows/');
$ds->loadImage('./images/test1.jpg');
$ds->resizeByPercent(50, 0);
$ds->applyShadow('CCCCCC');
$ds->showShadow('png');

I ge this:
Debug message from function resizeByPercent: Image size is 300 / 225

Debug message from function applyShadow: The shadow files could not be loaded.

Debug message from function _showImage: There is no processed image to show.
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the shadow files are inside the shadows directory and are readable by everyone.

[nation-x]

[amnuts]

[geo__]

Andy thanks for your help.
After investigating further I noticed that the web server didn't have success to this directory.

Secondly, the "could not save jpeg" was due to the fact that I had the dir only rw by all, while it has to be rwx.

[amnuts]

Ahh.. Didn't notice before, but your thumbnails and shadows directory don't have the exec bit set for groups/other. Now, you may very well be running the CGI version of PHP under your own username, or the web server runs under your username. But if not, and the webserver is actually a group or other than is trying to get access to those directories then it'll need the exec bit set.

Andy

[geo__]

I just noticed it b4 your reply and updated my message.
anyway thnx again.