Thumbnail creation script

[paesc]

Hi Kris

after having timeout issues with thumbnail creation after uploading many pictures I added the following script to the nano_photo_provider: thumbnailcreator.php.zip

It based on your plugin and largely uses the nano_photos_provider2.cfg. It can be run via crontab at any intervall.

It only need two more settings in the nano_photos_provider2.cfg:
[thumbnails]
thumbnailHeight="200"
thumbnailWidth="auto"

Feel free to include the script in the Photo_provider if you find this useful.

[imoxx]

Hello,

I think I have the same problem as you. I added a lot of photos and I got errors all the time. Also I'm wondering why the nano_photos_provider2.php copies all images to the thumdnail folder too. When I it local sometimes it works but when I copy it to my webspace it will be crashed all the time. Maybe 4 or 5 photos works but not more.

how to the thumbnailcreator? only add the two thins to the cfg does not work. Also I'm wondering how should work because you have to tell the nano_photos_provider2.php to use script right?

Could someone help to get it work?

Cheers
Imox

[paesc]

Hi Imox

I run the script as a cronjob every 15 minutes independent from the photos_provider2 .

Like this, I am sure that lates 15minutes after the last upload the thumbnails are created.

just add the following line to your etc/crontab :

*/15 * * * * user php "path to thumbnailcreator.php" >/dev/null 2>&1

Hope it works out like this.

Paescsuper

[imoxx]

Hi Paescsuper,

thanks for the instructions but I mean how to use the script. I put it in the same folder "nano_photos_provider2" where also the nano_photos_provider2.cfg and nano_photos_provider2.php located and run the script but I got errors:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function debug_to_console() in nano_photos_provider2/thumbnailcreator.php:13
Stack trace:
#0 {main}
  thrown in nano_photos_provider2/thumbnailcreator.php on line 13

Maybe could you exactly explain me how do you use it?

Thanks a lot
Imox

[paesc]

Hi Imox

I don‘t have access to the script now, but looks like theres an error in the thumbnailscript in line 13. Probably a path you‘ll need to adjust?

Did you anmend the settings as descibet above?

Cheers

paescsuper

[osturnus]

Hi!

I'm migrating my gallery from flickr to webhosting space and I runned into this issue. It seems, that webhosting is too slow to generate thumbnails on-the-fly. I would like to run this script but first there was issue with "auto" width (non-number on line 52) which I solved be setting it to 200 too.
Now, few thumbnails are generated but than fatal error occurs (running out of memory)...

Is there anything new about this issue? Otherwise, provider2 seems to be rather limited in use.
And other question: is result of this script the same as if I would hit F5 on gallery page until all thumbnails are generated? (in other words - does it solve the issue with not-yet-generated thumbnails?)

Thanks!
I like nanogallery a lot, but moving away from flickr (guess why;) happens to be unexpectedly difficult...

[supersexy]

Are there any plans to add this script to the distribution or add some command line functionality to nano_photos_provider2?

[BillTheGoat]

An easy workaround to this is to add ini_set('max_execution_time', '6000'); whenever you trigger an update, before rewinddir( $dh ); - on approx line 215 in nano_photos_provider2.json.class.php. What is missing with this workaround is a recursive update through the various albums. But this script did not work well for me since I still wound up timing out after running it. Your php setup might need tweaking to allow long timeouts.