Question

I’m trying to make thumbmails of user imaes. However, I always get ‘path to the image is incorrect.”

my code:

$settings = array(
            'source_image' => '/videotuts/profilepic/userimg.png',
            'create_thumb' => TRUE,
            'new_image' => '/videotuts/profilepic'
        );
$this->load->library('image_lib',$settings);

$r = $this->image_lib->resize();

Does it matter that codeigniter is not installed in my website root?

Answer 1

Looking at all the answers and comments, let me assume that you have codeigniter in folder /htdocs/videotuts/, notice there is a / in the starting. So you index.php is located in htdocs/videotuts/index.php. Codeigniter libraries will follow any path respective to index.php and hence there should be a path /videotuts/profilepic/userimg.png under /htdocs/videotuts/or the full path should be ‘/htdocs/videotuts/videotuts/profilepic/userimg.png’. If its not the same, remove the unwanted folder name from your paths. You don’t need to use APPPATH or FCPATH or BASEPATH. 2ndly, if you are creating thumbnails, I hope you have correctly set read write perms for image folders.