Trying to get php function getimagesize working

Hi. I have been trying to get this to work for hours. I can't see what I am doing wrong. I am working on php4 on godaddy shared hosting. I am trying to get the php function getimagesize working in a test php program so I can apply the logic to another program.

I displayed the file variable with an img tag to confirm the path to the image file was correct.

Here's my test page:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$filename = "/webadmin/uploads_for_emails/smileyface.jpg";
echo "<img src='" . $filename . "'>";
echo "filename " . $filename;
list($width, $height, $type, $attr) = getimagesize($filename);

echo "Image width " .$width;
echo "<BR>";
echo "Image height " .$height;
echo "<BR>";
echo "Image type " .$type;
echo "<BR>";
echo "Attribute " .$attr;

?>
</body>
</html>

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I've attached a screenshot of the resulting page and error message.

Thanks for your help.
Alexis

PHP

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alexisbr

8/22/2022 - Mon

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3/18/2012

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alexisbr

3/19/2012

ASKER

Thanks, Dave. You are right. The problem was with the path. When I tried putting the image in the same folder, it worked. Apparently the routines don't like when you use the path from root. I changed the path to start from the current folder, and then it worked. Here's the change below that worked for both displaying the image and giving the width and height.

$filename = "/webadmin/uploads_for_emails/smileyface.jpg";
to
$filename = "uploads_for_emails/smileyface.jpg";

I'm not sure why godaddy doesn't accept the other path but I'm glad to know how to get it to work.

Thank you again for your awesome help.

Alexis

Dave Baldwin

3/19/2012

You're welcome. I think it's just that PHP routine, not Godaddy.

alexisbr

3/19/2012

ASKER

Thanks, Dave but I thought you said my original program worked fine as is on your system and on your host. That's why I was saying the problem must be on godaddy's end that I had to change the way I did the paths.

Alexis

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Dave Baldwin

3/19/2012

The first thing I did with your code is change the image link to one in the same directory. Then I changed it to an image on my web site. Both worked fine so I figured it must be the path. But your path worked to display the image but not with the getimagesize() function. So the path worked in an <img> tag but not in the PHP function. Both are still coming from Godaddy so I don't think it's a Godaddy problem. Just some oddity in the way PHP was trying to use the path.

alexisbr

3/19/2012

ASKER

OK I understand now. Thanks for the details. I appreciate it.