Tim Thumb PHP Script

7 November 2008 7,631 views 7 Comments

For those of you who are Web Developers or even just bloggers, and for some reason you ended up on the Steinbach Youth for Christ site, this post is for you. The images all over this site are all pulled from a php script called Tim Thumb, originally developed by Darren Hoyt. What it does is breaks time down by automatically resizing your images to whatever size you choose. Very handy script for a magazine style website. Anyway, the last week all our images have vanished and i could not for the life of me figure out why? Just a couple minutes ago i finally figured it out. So for those of you that cant get your timthumb.php script to work, first try changing the cache file and your timthumb.php file’s permissions to 766. Originally they should be set at 755, and some say to change to 777, this did not work for me, my server does not allow. So, hopefully that helps someone out. On the other hand, i really need a hand from someone to help me get this site running properly on IE, its so frustrating.

7 Comments »

  • Les Lamb said:

    What directory does the cache folder go in? Thanks.

    # 19 December 2008 at 4:19 pm
  • kyle
    kyle said:

    Hey les, the cache folder should go into the same folder as the timthumb.php script. I have the hierarchy for my files as follows: wp-content/themes/yfcwp/scripts/cache. So the cache as well as the timthumb.php should go into a script folder in your themes folder. Hope that helps.

    # 19 December 2008 at 7:14 pm
  • Robert said:

    Thank You So Much!! I have been trying to fix this problem all day! I finally came across your site, and it worked. What a relief!

    # 27 April 2009 at 12:52 am
  • kyle
    kyle said:

    Hey man, glad i could be of help to you. i checked out your site man, pretty sweet! Where are you using the timthumb script?

    # 27 April 2009 at 9:10 pm
  • Karson Strub said:

    @robert #27

    Same sentiment man. Thank you so much for clearing this up.:D

    # 5 April 2011 at 4:50 am
  • Leanne said:

    Nice php script over here! Magazine style site is one that im interested to look into developing my site into lol

    thanks
    leanne
    my blog: Luminess Air Reviews

    # 5 April 2011 at 2:22 pm
  • Harley Adams said:

    Thanks for this information. I just came across your blog and read your post. Didn’t really encounter this problem but if I will, I now have an idea. Thanks. Nice Blog.

    Harley Adams,
    Diet and Exercise Reviews

    # 6 April 2011 at 2:28 am

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