Hi, my friend referred me to these forums and I must say very impressed. Figured while I was here I would bring forward this issue:


As it stands images in signatures on our forum (phpbb3) do not work (utilizing the [IMG] code). Whenever a user tries to implement their own signature into the UCP a small message comes up reading "It was not possible to determine the dimensions of the image."

I've done fair bit of research on Google (a man's best friend imho) and so far the only solutions I've come up with are: changing the dimension restrictions (width x height: pixels limit) and changing a line of code in the 'php.ini' config. (Change "allow_url_fopen = off" to "allow_url_fopen = on")

The first solution (WxH pixel limits) had no effect, and when it came to trying the second... our 'php.ini' file already read "allow_url_fopen = on".


The weird thing is that existing signatures that our forum users have implemented still show and work fine, so long as they do not re-submit the setting in the UCP! I'm assuming this is down to the board being updated (and thus the problem created) after the signatures were put in?


We're out of ideas?

Thank for any help in advance.

I best point out, in most browsers if you don't put width/height on the image it will the browser will figure out what to put (normally, the images meta width/height properties).

I suggest you try and disable to UCP dimensions detector and check phpbb3's support forums.

*edit*

http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewto...p?f=71&t=31318 < someone with a similar problem, you can disable max height/width which should fix your problem...but is not the best solution (users will post massive images).

The best thing to do, is ask your webhost for help.

Originally Posted by rogem002

I suggest you try and disable to UCP dimensions detector

I never thought to read the small-print under the dimension config's on the admin panel..."set to 0 px for unlimited height". Disabling these has worked. I feel like such a tool lol.

Like you said though, it can get dangerous once people figure out it's unlimited sizes. I'll use this for the time being and send an email off to the host right away. We'll have to police user's signatures to stay on-top of people abusing the 0px-0px setting.

Thanks for the quick reply. Much appreciated.