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I have just installed phpThumbs and I cannot get the thumbnails to display at my desired dimensions.  I want all images, portrait and landscape, to have a width of 120 pixels, and to maintain the aspect ratio of the source file.  When I write:

phpThumb.php?src={photos_before}&w=120

It sets the width at 120, but the height displayed is the source image height (often quite huge) ... so the image is totally distorted.  I am racking my brain and can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong? 

I’m running EE 1.5.2, and Mark Huot’s File Extension.  The images are uploaded as “files” attached to a blog entry.  I’m using EngineHosting.

Hi there,

According to the phpThumb documentation, w and h set the *maximum* width of the thumbnail image, and “will be scaled proportionately to fit in a box of at most (width * height) pixels (unless “iar” is set)”. Based on that, have you tried setting the height to arbitrarily large number? For example:

phpThumb.php?src={photos_before}&w=120&h=1000

Cheers
Stephen

phpThumb should be keeping the aspect ratio by default - that’s what happens in the demos with the same usage as you describe. Does your custom field contain the full http://www... domain, or just the directory/filename.jpg of the images? If it’s the full url, try just using the directory/filename.jpg method. Also, do you have a live example?

I’m using relative paths.  I am not using any custom fields at this point.  For now I’m just trying to get the thumbnails to generate correctly.  Here is what I get:

http://davis.pmhclients.com/index.php/pages/portfolio/

You can view source to see the dimensions that I am wanting the image to have.  I have tried every combination of parameters that I can think of.  In the latest version I am trying to use the wp, wl, hp, hl parameters, but that isn’t working either.  Pretty much no matter what I use I get these strange tall images.  (e.g., 75 px wide x 300 px tall).

What happens if you remove the spaces in your file names (or replace with dashes/underscores)? I experimented on the logo gif (no spaces) and it kept the aspect ratio there.

I can’t believe I didn’t think of that—it looks like that was the problem.  Thanks for your help!