export to PDF: no images

[johanna]

I enabled DEBUG mode but I got no errors. And after I click "Export" my browser loads the page a bit too long and then shows empty page. Url for this is: /phpmyfaq/admin/index.php?uin=&action=exportfile&downwards=1&type=pdf&dispos=attachment&submitExport=Export+your+FAQ

[Thorsten]

Hi,

how many entries do you have? Do you see something in your webserver error log?

bye
Thorsten

[johanna]

I've got only 5 entries but each of them contains lot of pictures. I have tried to export FAQs to PDF only in article view (so one at a time instead of whole category) but that results blank page also.

There's nothing in my servers php_error.txt nor in apache_error.txt files. In access.txt file is this message:
127.0.0.1 - - [08/Jun/2009:16:21:22 +0300] "GET /phpmyfaq/admin/index.php?uin=&action=exportfile&catid=14&downwards=1&type=pdf&dispos=attachment&submitExport=Export+your+FAQ HTTP/1.1" 200 -

Thanks for helping me!

[Thorsten]

Hi,

how many pictures? It could be a memory problem with PHP.

bye
Thorsten

[johanna]

I made a test article with one picture (size 11.21 kB). That didn't work either. Could that be too much, already? "post_max_size" and "upload_max_filesize" are both 100M. Is there some else value that I should check in case of PHP memory problem?

I have tested with Firefox, Opera and IE and all of them results only blank page.

[Thorsten]

Hi,

no, that's okay... the problem is that without having a error messahe I cannot debug this... is your FAQ public available?

bye
Thorsten

[johanna]

Unfortunately it's not available for public since the site is on my localhost. I've planned to publish it, though, so if no one else is having this problem and I can't solve it, I will tell you as soon as I can publish my site!

Thanks a lot for your time!

[johanna]

Um, could this have something to do with "Links KO" in my articles? It says "Host localhost is slow or not responding.". Though, pictures are shown correctly.

Edit
Yeah, that's that. I inserted a picture from Internet and then PDF was created successfully. Well, the site is going to be on Internet - not on my localhost - so maybe the problem won't occur then.
It would be nice to know why my localhost "is slow or not responding"...

[johanna]

This is weird... My localhost exports image from Internet fine but my company's server won't do that. The execution of inserting image ends here on /inc/PMF_Export/Pdf.php :

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if (!$info = @getimagesize($image)) {
    return;
}

getimagesize() is located on standard.php (at least my Eclipse said so when holding the mouse over the text) but I couldn't locate that file in my phpMyFAQ installation. Can anyone tell me where that file is or why this is happening?

[Thorsten]

Hi,

maybe a firewall problem between the company server and the Internet?

bye
Thorsten

[johanna]

Don't know... Images are working with relative paths, so there might be something in firewall like you said. Well, we surely can use only relative paths for images so problem solved - kind of.

And yeah, standard.php isn't included on phpMyFAQ because it's some standard file of PHP. getimagesize() is a PHP function from GD library.

[Thorsten]

Hi,

Don't know... Images are working with relative paths, so there might be something in firewall like you said. Well, we surely can use only relative paths for images so problem solved - kind of.

but relative paths will be transformed into absolute paths with an URL... so it has to be something else.

bye
Thorsten

[johanna]

I commented those lines out where relative paths are transformed into absolute paths. I'm not sure but there might be limited access to the subdomain where our phpMyFAQ is located, so I thought that relative paths could work better. And they did. So the reason images didn't work in first place might be our server.