I will need to check with Mr Papa who wrote that but I suspect it will require the GD graphics library to be compiled with your PHP. You might like to ask your host if this is present or not…

you should not have a directory with 0777 – that is risky and could cause server issues…

any errors in the log?  what exactly is the error message…

You say you updated SP, but what version of WP?  The avatar resizing uses functions built into WP…  they are not our own…

What setting (instead of 0777) should I use for that folder?

The error I get in the forum when the “resize” option is activated is this:

There are few errors in the error log that might be related to this:

The software versions I have installed are:
SP 5.2.6
WP 3.5.2

So, is the “GD graphics library” a possible reason for the problem?

Best and preferred folder permission setting is 755. Some hosts will not actually serve data if the folder is 777.

Doesn’t seem a GD library issue so that’s OK.

Looks like those errors in your log point to the issue but I am unsure yet what that might be. Will need to do a little code research and possibly wait for Steve (Mr Papa) to arrive on the scene. Seems to be something to do with the avatar file name…

We’ll come back on this asap.

Thanks. Will change the permission setting…

I get the same error no matter what the filename (unless something is wrong with test.jpg or test.png). I also tried uploading a simple 80×80 pixel white rectangle (filesize < 1kb) as avatar and get the same error.

you should still check with your host…  wp still needs the GD or ImageMagik library to do its thing..

its a wp function and you would have to do more internal checking to see what the error is…

to get more info, you would need to make a slight code mod and dump the wp error to the screen so we can see what they are complaining about…  up to that?

Sure, how can I do this?

find file simple-press/forum/profile/ahah/sp-ahah-profile-save.php…  down around line 348, find this section of code:

                $sfavatars = sp_get_option('sfavatars');
                if ($sfavatars['sfavatarresize']) {
                    $editor = wp_get_image_editor($uploadfile);
                    if (is_wp_error($editor)) {
                        @unlink($uploadfile);
                        $message['type'] = 'error';
                        $message['text'] = sp_text('Sorry, there was a problem resizing the avatar');
                        return $message;
                    } else {
                        $editor->resize($sfavatars['sfavatarsize'], $sfavatars['sfavatarsize'], true);
                        $imageinfo = $editor->save($uploadfile);
                        $filename = $imageinfo['file'];
                    }
                }

after the line

                    if (is_wp_error($editor)) {

add this:

                        ashow($editor);

when you save upload an avatar and it gets resized, this should dump the wp error object to the screen and give more info as to why wp failed to resize it…

Hmm… doesn’t seem to work.

After editing the code and activating “avatar resizing” in the forum options, now nothing happens when I click the “upload avatar” button. Also the (green) error message ‘Sorry, there was a problem resizing the avatar’ does not appear.

Is it possible that ashow($editor); throws an exception?

Any alternative?

exception? no…

you might need to look at the ajax response in the browser console though..  should have mentioned that.. sorry…

Hmm…

This is what I see in the console when I click the upload avatar button (i.e. nothing happens):

There’s no message, also under Errors or Warning sor Debug Info…

This is what the edited code looks like:

Or am I still looking in the wrong place?

you have 2 ajax responses there… but they are collapsed… see the  + sign next to the GET?  expand that and see what is reported for response or html… should be something with spdebug…

OK, so I guess this is what we are looking for…

yes…  so time to ask the host… is GD or ImageMagik compile into your php?