after upgrading to drupal 6.14, i'm having problems with a thickbox/imagecache/views combination that i use to generate a gallery page on a site. the page uses views to select random images from a database, imagecache to generate thumbnails and fullsize versions and thickbox to display the fullsize image in an ajax popup, when the thumbnail is clicked. all was working perfectly until i upgraded drupal to 6.14 [thickbox, imagecache and views have also been upgraded to their current versions, as and when these have been released].

i originally posted the following to an imagecache issues thread, as imagecache seemed the obvious culprit [which is why imagecache is mentioned so much], but if you read through it, you'll see that, in the end, the evidence seems to suggest that the problem lies with thickbox itself [at least insofar as it integrates with the current versions of the views and imagecache modules]

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after ugrading to drupal 6.14 i had the following symptoms:

  • image thumbnails and fullsize versions created by ubercart/imagecache [on another part of the site] were working fine
  • image thumbnails created by views/imagecache for the gallery page where not displaying all. instead i was getting a text link which pointed to <full path to appropriate imagecache folder>/<'alt text' for image> so, as opposed to pointing to the name of the image file, the link points to its alt text [???]
  • gallery thumbnail images were being created properly by imagecache as i could see them being created on my server
  • gallery thumbnail images would also display properly inside the views module when i hit the live preview button - just not on the actual pages themselves
  • the views module generated gallery thumbnail images were supposed to link to thickbox popups of the full size image.

since i'm juggling three variables here; imagecache, views and thickbox, i decided to simplify things a bit and so changed the views module output to just generate the imagecache gallery thumbnail linked directly to the imagecache fullsize , rather than imagecache thumbnail linked to imagecache fullsize displayed in a thickbox popup.

success! - all my imagecache thumbnails are now displaying properly on my pages again and, clicking on them links to the full version [although obviously i've now lost my thickbox ajax popups]. so, i'm now coming round to thinking that the guilty party might actually be thickbox, rather than imagecache.

anyone else seeing anything like this?

[Drupal 6.14, ImageCache 6.x-2.0-beta10, Thickbox 6.x-1.5, Views 6.x-2.6]

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frjo’s picture

frjo commented
Category: bug » support
Priority: Critical » Normal

Do you have a theme override for theme_imagefield_image_imagecache_thickbox() in your theme?

In Thickbox 6.x-1.5 that function was updated (http://drupal.org/node/570774) so you will need to update it in your theme also.

If that is not your problem I don't know what it can be. I'm using Drupal 6.14, ImageCache 6.x-2.0-beta10, and Thickbox 6.x-1.5 on numerous sites myself without problems.

madra’s picture

madra commented

you're a life-saver, mate!

that was exactly what the problem was. i'd overridden that function to give each image thumbnail the same 'rel' value, thus allowing arrowing through the images in the gallery like a slideshow.

it was so long ago, i'd completely forgotten i'd even done it.

thanks a lot. i could have spent weeks wrestling with this problem and never even thought to look in my theme's template.php file

[memo to self: make a list of all the hacks you do next time!]

BTW - for anyone else's benefit, the offending function is on line 234 of the thickbox.module file:

function theme_imagefield_image_imagecache_thickbox($namespace, $field, $path, $alt = '', $title = '', $gid = '', $attributes = NULL)

in the old version has changed to:

function theme_imagefield_image_imagecache_thickbox($namespace, $path, $alt = '', $title = '', $gid = '', $attributes = NULL)

in the new [loose the $field variable]

madra’s picture

madra commented
Status: Active » Fixed

better mark this closed now!

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)
Issue tags: -imagecache, -Drupal, -views, -thickbox

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

Issue tags: +imagecache, +, +views, +thickbox

Restoring issue tags, see #2125755: System messages removed all issue tags during D7 upgrade.