Bug Some images not showing

[angeljs]

For some reason, some of the images are not showing in the slider, just a blank, white background. Please see attached image. Thanks.

 

[GoodApples]

Looks like it's a matter of external images = photobucket.

 

[angeljs]

Oh, I thought the slider took the post attachments? This only happens with some, and all posts have Photobucket images, but all have at least 1 image attachment.

 

[bszopi]

You are confusing attachments and the use of IMG tags. Attachments are things that are actually uploaded to your site directly into the post. IMG tags allows you to show an image from an outside source. I mentioned this in another thread that trying to pull from an image URL from inside the thread and IMG takes might be quite a chore. If it could be done, I could see some potential downfalls to it as well... For instance, if someone posted a message with no attachment, and the only outside IMG he attached was a smiley from some other site, then you'd get that little smiley blown up to a ridiculous size and shown in your slider.

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Looking at your site (and I missed the part in your last post saying each thread has an attachment), I think the problem may be with your permissions for viewing attachments. You took down the test account you gave me yesterday, so I was just looking as a visitor. In a thread that was in the slider and didn't have an image, the associated thread did have an attachment. The problem was, I couldn't view the attachment as a visitor. So, do you have the problem when logged in as well?

 

[angeljs]

Hi, yes the problem is there when I'm logged in, too. All attachment images should be viewable to all.

 

[bszopi]

As a test, I went to the following thread (which did not have an image in the slider): Mountbank Villa

I can see an attachment thumbnail, but when I click on the thumbnail, I get the following:

You are not logged in or you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

You are not logged in. Fill in the form at the bottom of this page and try again.
You may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

So there is a permission somewhere that isn't allowing me to view the attachment. The slider uses vBulletin's built-in attachment system (attachment.php) to display the images, so if you have any setting that is not allowing people to view the attachments, then they are not going to show up in the slider.

 

[angeljs]

Well that's really, really weird! As far as I know, everyone should be able to see all thumbnails, so goodness knows what the problem is there!

 

[bszopi]

I think I know what the issue is. In the ACP->Forums & Moderators->Forum Permissions, you probably have "Can See Thumbnails" set to YES and "Can Download Attachments" set to NO. The way the attachments system works in the slider is, it basically tries to show the image as if the user clicked on it, which would mean the user effectively 'downloaded' the image. I *think* this is what is causing your issue. At the same time, I understand why you don't want to let all users download attachments, since you have zip files as attachments as well. I will see if I can replicate this on my dev install and see if I can figure out a way around it.

 

[angeljs]

That would be great, thanks

 

[bszopi]

Ok, I was never able to find anything causing this, but I did implement the IMG tag functionality, and it is available in v1.0.5. Let me know if you continue to have issues.

 

[angeljs]

Hi, that is much, much better! Now it's pulling the images instead of the attachments, they are all showing, and they are not distorted either. Really pleased, thanks!

 

[bszopi]

Glad this worked out for you!