ImageField loses image on submit if previously uploaded.

I can confirm this.
Upload isn't working when hitting the upload button, only when hitting submit.
The image is stuck in the temp folder (regardless where that is)

I can't confirm it working with IE, though - same problem for me with all browsers.

This is pretty much a showstopper for me regarding this module, as I can't count on my users not using the upload button.
I'll mark this as critical bug for now, please correct me if I'm wrong.

my details:
drupal 5.6
php5
debian etch w. apache2

I tried the HEAD version with no improvement.

I kinda fixed the problem - for me anyways - with what I'm pretty sure constitutes an ugly hack :)
I inserted this line in the module:

$path = trim(substr($path, 50), '\\/');

just before this line

$url = file_create_url($path);

in the function "function theme_imagefield_image"

The number 50 is the number of characters that come before the "tmp"-folder in my filepath - obviously this has to be adjusted to your own path...

As if this isn't ugly enough, I also had to change the output of the image to this to get the image shown:

return '<img src="'. check_url($url) . check_plain($title) . '" blablabla...

I used the check_plain($title) function, because I don't know how to get the filename - this probably won't work, if you're using custom titles for your images.

Again - this works for me, but it's of course in no way ready to be made into a patch - I only hope this might inspire someone more knowledgeable in php to turn it into something good.

//EDIT: This information might be useful too:

My system path is: files
My temp folder is: files/tmp

For this hack to work I had to uncheck all these options in the imagefield options:

Enable custom alternate text
Enable custom title text
Required (yes, it's true...I don't know why, but it's as if drupal doesn't register the upload and returns error if I set the field required...)

please make sense of all this somebody...

oh man, I spoke too soon, it seems.
The above code works as intended on my localhost, but I still experience problems on my virtual server (debian etch).

The preview works, though. I can upload to the temp folder and see the uploaded image as well as delete and replace it, but the image does not seem to be uploaded to the files folder when I hit submit after previewing. As before, erverything works, if I don't use the preview option, but I can't really explain this to my users...

so I guess this is somehow related to some server upload settings?

any input would be highly appreciated!

Do you have the firebug extension installed? If so, does it provide any additional info that you can either use to resolve the issue or post?

If not, you might want to install it. It may provide some additional insight.

I believe these types of situations are fixed in the 2.x RC4 release

@markedmunds: Do uploads work if you just preview or submit without using the js upload? Are there any errors in watchdog or in the apache error logs?

@robotjox: can you open your own issue?

Hi Mark!

I have the same problem, so I was very glad to find this issue )

So, here is my story:

I had a well-working drupal5.2 site with cck 1.6 and imagefield 1.1, and decided to upgrade it.
Today, working on my localhost, with D5.6 and the same cck and imagefield I've find out that images disappear on upload. Nevertheless, old images with old nodes (from old database) work fine, but when I try to upgrade the old node, image disappears. The one interesting thing I've figured out was the next.

When outputting the $node object with

  print '<!--';
  print_r ($node);
  print '-->'

I see the following, as one of the items of [content] => Array (the node object has no [field_thumbnail] field, but I think it should), and no image is shown:

            [field_thumbnail] => Array
                (
                    [#access] => 1
                    [#value] => 
                    [#weight] => 1
                    [#printed] => 1
                )

As you can see, the [#value] is empty.

But if I try this on the old nodes or on the new Drupal installation I see the next (and the images work well):
[field_thumbnail] is one of the object's fields, in opposite to the previous case.

    [field_thumbnail] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [fid] => 1
                    [title] => 
                    [alt] => 
                    [nid] => 1
                    [filename] => lamp_screen.jpg
                    [filepath] => files/lamp_screen.jpg
                    [filemime] => image/jpeg
                    [filesize] => 766388
                    [view] => <img src="http://localhost/_lamp2/files/lamp_screen.jpg" alt="" title="" width="1280" height="800" />
                )

        )

and in the $node->content array:

            [field_thumbnail] => Array
                (
                    [#access] => 1
                    [#value] => <div class="field field-type-image field-field-thumbnail"><div class="field-label">thumbnail:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item"><img src="http://localhost/_lamp2/files/lamp_screen.jpg" alt="" title="" width="1280" height="800" /></div></div></div>
                    [#weight] => 0
                    [#printed] => 1
                )

I think, that's the place, from which we could try to understand something...

In addition, my images do not work, even if I do not upload them, and just press the submit button. If I want to preview the node before submitting, I see the placeholder for the image, but no image is shown, because drupal generates some awful path for that image, smth like this:
/files/imagecache/thumbs/D:\webdev\www\tmp\tmp534F.tmp

I hope that all of this will help somebody to make some fix for all this stuff...

All of you are using 1.x-dev or the released 1.1 branch? I've pretty much stopped working on 1.x myself... If you have patches for it I will consider and review them, but you need to submit patches in unified diff format.

thanks.

1.x is not supported.

Does anyone have an appropriate fix for this? I am also experiencing this but its on imagefield 2.x-dev

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