No thumbs in category view of blog template

Hello, really enjoying using Flexicontent after an awful week pulling ContentBuilder apart for what appears to be an excercise in wasting time - i've now moved over to Flexi and all is going well except I have run accross a small bug that i cant seem to fix.

I'm using v1.5.6 RC2 and cant seem to get any images displaying in the blog list view. I've tried other suggested solutions in the forum, from chmodding the appopriate directories to commenting out/changing line 1160 (not relevent in 1.5.6 anyway).

The error given when trying to open the image is as below (with some of the URL truncated by '...'):

The actual image link is as follows:
And only works if i remove the params at the end, so it works if i remove &w=180&h=180&aoe=1&q=95.

I have searched thru the forums and found alot of similar issues but none that matched my exact error message and none of the other issues solutions helped.

Any help is appreciated, thanks for all the great work and support!

- Ant

I think you are talking of a bug that is fixed in later revisions, (the error may not appear in all browsers).

The character & must be encoded as &
So edit you category_items.php and carefully replace one by one all occurrences of & with &
e.g.
q = '&q=95';
must become:
q = '&q=95';

NOTE: The same bug exists in Universal module.

Your POST has been quite detailed and clear. If the above does not work, i will tell you have to enable phpthumb error display

Regards

Hello, thanks for the prompt reply!

Changing the ampersands has generated a light purple PNG that says 'Error Message Disabled'. I also tried deleting and reuploading the Image. As a note, i can see folders are being created in the phpthumb/cache directory but no images are present, should they be?

I've also changed line 3699 to -

But it hasnt changed the Error message, is there somewhere else i need to enable Errors or Debugging?

Thank you for your attention, its much appreciated, these forums are excellent!

I looked more carefully at your original message, it seems like phpthumb library cannot write its cache folder.

Check permission of the folder:
components\com_flexicontent\librairies\phpthumb\cache and try setting them to 755 and clearing the contents of the folder

The permission of this folder are setting automatically, so also goto
Joomla Backend/Help/System Info/PHP information

and search for string "disable_functions", do you have any functions disabled?

hmm.. disable_functions set to no value.

I've also chmodded that directory, all files and subfolders to 755, then cleared the contents apart form the index.html - deleted the nreuploaded image, no change.. it just recreaterd a set of empty folders i in the cache directory "phpthumb/cache/7/78/783/783a"

Sorry about this, its turned out to be a bit more complicated than i had expected..

Please try with latest download available:
code.google.com/p/flexicontent/downloads/list

By which you mean the nightly build?

com_flexicontent_v1.5.6_preRC3_r1110_Nightly_Build

Just want to double check because it could be unstable, i do currently have the most recent RC2 installed if thats what you meant (RC2a_r1057)..

Yes try installing this build

Exactly the same result. although now the textareas have no editor and the backend has a few errors above the items view.. If this build hasnt fixed anything is it safe to overwrite withthe previous version because this ones a bit more broken and i've already done a ton of work to the site...

You can install previous version,

about the issue with phpthumb it must permission issue with your server, does the image field display properly inside an item view?