Okay try the following for those who don't have the preview, copy the link of the preview image into your navigator so to get preview.php?blablabla and see if you get any errors or a blank page.
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Just a word of caution. During testing I experienced a server outage that lasted about 20 minutes. When I could finally get back into my server my HTTPD processes were running at 500MB each! While I could PING my server, the websites were down and I could not access SSH. At the time of this outage, I was testing the code here.
I waited a while and then reloaded onto my primary message boards last night. This morning my servers experienced a 3 hour outage (all because I took a nap 10 minutes before it started!). This was a hard crash.
There are no server logs to tell me what might have happened. Oddly enough, the site with the generator on it has no long entries at all for today while my other sites logs are fine.
I suggest that if you have a HEAVY server load you be cautious as this script caused the only outage my server has had (and mine is a loaded Dell with SCSI RAIDs, 1.5GB of ECC memory and the works).
I had AutoUpdate set to the default. And, truth is, I have no data to support just where the crash is occuring. I only base this word of caution on the fact I had two server problems after installed this mod when I've never had an outage on my system before.
Also, my panel below s Dynamic and served up over 30,000 times a day (last check), so I wonder if the problem has more to do with file I/O than the graphics portion.
Its hard for me to say what kind of load my server was under at the time of the crash. MTRG MySQL and Traffic data shows it to be about normal (not excessively high).
Also, looking in my panels directory I only have 63 panels. Once a panel is made, there hsouldnt be any further problems. I wonder if there isnt something that causes a problem in the way the panel code is called - i.e. good error recovery in the event you get passed some bad data?
I can try and take a look when I can find some time.
[]Okay try the following for those who don't have the preview, copy the link of the preview image into your navigator so to get preview.php?blablabla and see if you get any errors or a blank page. [/]
I still get a broken preview image.
When I copy the img src link of the broken preview image to the address bar, I get a blank page.
Otherwise this is cool.
My users have requested "Cartman" from soutpark in future addiions.
I'm going to try and load this onto a test server and then run a script to call it repeatedly to see what it does. My server is back online and no problems (removed the link to the generator); but I cant see loading it again until I know more about what caused my outages.
The pngs are being created... because they work once you add them to the post. It's just the preview that doesn't work.
I'm testing this with a small group of paid supporters. I'll probably leave it limited to that group as a "perk" of supporting us. That should minimize server load for us.
Strangest thing on my site... The preview was working just fine... I hadn't messed with it in a couple days and was using it this morning and guess what... The preview feature isn't working.... I was trying to figure out why Josh's wasn't working because we use the same type of setup and now it's got me too.... Grabbing the new preview.php file to try it out....
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That didn't help the problem Charles.... I am racking my brain trying to think if I changed something that would have resulted in the preview to stop working but I just haven't made any changes to the site since installing that the day you released it. It worked perfectly for a few days and then? I will keep thinking back and maybe recall a change I made.....
Hey Charles, thanks..... I tried it with Netscape and it worked perfectly so I cleared my cache and all temporary stuff and it's now working with explorer just fine.... Weird.... I just cleared all that yesterday...
Maybe I'm on here more than I thought....
Thanks again and my users love this too.....
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second I have 2 things which i cant solve it untile now
1. when i try to generate the panel it's look that the Classic image is not merging with the text image correctly !! it seem that there is problem with transperancy of the classic images ??!!
have a look at this which was created from my site (Server) :
2. The second problem is i cant generate the panel with another language such as Arabic ?? it's return rubish characters when i try to write in Arabic language ?? is there any way to do that ??
GD Support enabled GD Version 2.0 or higher FreeType Support enabled FreeType Linkage with freetype JPG Support enabled PNG Support enabled WBMP Support enabled
and i am using RedHat 7.3
And about Arabic I have added more than 10 Arabic TTF Fonts but still it's not working with me ... and what do u mean to switch off the other fonts ??
can u give me the basic idea on how the script send the Text string to GD & Freetype ?? I think the main problem is one of the above library is needing to convert the text string as Arabic Unicode before sending it to the place which create the image ... so we have to find which library doing this process .. coz i believe that by sending the string from the browser it using the Default encoding characeter and it's mean sending rubish characters coz what is wrote in my Text Area is not what will be in the Preview image!!
ugh... just killed a busy threads site with this one.... it quit working period I think ~50 people attempted it before I got the config file updated completely
I am still waiting for the processes to stop so I can restart it.
So Allen, This was related to you changing files around while people were using it for sure?? Got this installed on my site and would hate that to happen.....
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Digging further, I think it was partly related to their php not supporting freetype... have ~30 people attempt to make a panel without it and you'll see what I mean
about arabic you need to add something in the header to change the direction of writing but having never done it before I am not quite sure what it might be
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