image re hoster

Paul, a thumbnail maker would be invaluable. It should also present you with HTML snippets, one for the original and one for the thumbnail and linking to the origanal. What do you think?

gregthe1, I don’t mind if you blog about it, I will probably blog about it soon so feel free to leave your blog URL in the comments and I will link you in my post.

I will continue to update this as an open-source project. I will consider adding a thumbnail maker. If you use WordPress, I wrote a plugin recently that would be useful for resizing images that were uploaded with the image re-hoster, it can be found here: http://www.paulbutler.org/archives/proper-image-resizing-for-wordpress/. You would just have to make images upload to the wordpress upload directory.

Here is my blog post about it

A thumbnail maker would be a very natural fit for this project. I use the non-WSIWYG editor for WordPress so you’re plugin wouldn’t help me unfortunately.

Perhaps you can copy the code that this guy uses to make the thumbnails. I think it’s open source.

Thanks for the link. I will be posting about it in a few days. By the way, my WordPress plugin works even if you don’t use the Wysiwyg editor, but you need to specify both the height and width of the image. In the future you will only have to specify one and the plugin will figure out the other from the aspect ratio.

By the way, hiding the script behind a random URL only works if you change the upload directory (the configuration options are at the top of the PHP file and should be fairly easy to figure out because they are well-commented). Currently I can right-click your image and see where the script is installed based on the image’s path.

Bug: images that don’t end in a normal file extension aren’t accepted. Example

It sounds minor except that Flickr seems to often put GET parameters after an image.

I have uploaded the latest version (0.3). IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU UPDATE because 0.2 and prior versions had a huge security issue that I don’t know how I missed.

gregthe1: Thanks for the bug report. I have fixed this, although it doesn’t yet strip GET parameters so you will get a weird filename.

I have also added an optional password, read the PHP configuration (in the index.php file) for instructions on how to use it.

Thanks for the update, Paul. The script seems to run slowly now (10-30 seconds). Of course it could just be my web hosting company acting up. Would you mind checking if it’s slow for you?

Hmm, doesn’t seem to be working at all now. For example I’m trying to do the main image on this page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/candanguinho/1150193576/

Greg, you are right, it was slow and broken for me too. Unfortunately I had to rush the last release as I wanted to fix the security flaw I discovered before going away for the weekend. In my hurry I not only broke the software, but I didn’t actually fix what I intended to fix. I put version 0.4 up now, it should fix the problems you are having. Again, in my rush to get a more secure version out there I haven’t had much of a chance to test it, so let me know how it goes.

By the way, I did add the password security feature in 0.3, but I haven’t documented it except in the PHP source code. If you want to password-protect the script, read the source code for instructions.

Make that 0.5; I somehow forgot to support PNG in 0.4.

I’m not seeing 0.5?

Greg, here is a direct link: http://micropledge.com/projects/image-re-hoster/downloads/1/imagerehoster-0.5.tar.gz

I put it under “upcoming release” by mistake, but it should be on the download page anyway. I still see it there.

Micropledge, is that a bug that I’m not seeing that?

You’re right, I tried logging out and I can’t see the file.. I think it may be me misunderstanding the release system rather than a bug. I re-uploaded it as part of the current release, hopefully it will work now.

Well your download link did work, but it’s still not showing on the downloads page. Micropledge, could you check on this? And feel free to delete the comments talking about the potential micropledge bug.

Seems to work, though on this image http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r180/taossa/cover_sm.png I got this warning:

Notice: Undefined offset: 6 in /nfsn/content/answermysearches/htdocs/ahidd8adggae315kjkadag34err/index.php on line 412

Greg, I have uploaded a new version (0.6) that fixes this. Sorry it took so long, I had another project that was keeping me busy.