Finally what I've been waiting for!

However, I'm having a problem with the advanced method. My script works fine until I add &inside=1. Here is the code I'm using to request the image:

	
$request_url =  "https://shrinktheweb.com/xino.php?"
					. "Service=".           "ShrinkWebUrlThumbnail"
					. "&Action=".           "Thumbnail"
					. "&STWAccessKeyId=".   $access_key_id
					. "&inside=".		"1"
					. "&xmax=".			"100"
					. "&stwu=" .			$secret_access_key
					. "&stwUrl=" .             $url;

This code fails to generate an image on my server, but without the &inside=1 it will work fine. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I havn't looked at the rest of the code yet, but it looks like that is the only thing that should need changed.

On a side note, I tried changing around the advanced method to create a gif file instead of jpeg. It did not work. Is this because shrinktheweb returns the image file in a jpeg format already, or did I mess up on the coding?

UPDATE: Ah, I just went into my account history and noticed that the thumbnails are being generated, but not storing on the server properly. I'll look a bit more into the code, and hopefully will resolve this so you don't have to!

Like I said before, it works perfectly fine without the inside=1 so I'm not sure what would be causing this. It may have something to do with the XML that the server is returning.

If this helps, I did a var dump on exists and thumbnails before it calls the get_html_snippet function. Exists returned false and thumbnails returned https://shrinktheweb.com/images/nothumb-sm.jpg.

I also did a var dump without the inside=1. Exists returned true and thunbmails returned https://shrinktheweb.com/thumbs/d89g83938jfowic8/www.glotouch.com-sm.jpg. So, I'm guessing there is something wrong with this code:

	$num_matches = preg_match('/<[^:]*:Thumbnail\\s*(?:Exists=\"((?:true)|(?:false))\")?[^>]*>([^<]*)<\//', $line, $matches);
	if($num_matches == 1){
		$exists = $matches[1];
		$thumbnail = $matches[2];
	}else{
		$exists = NULL;
		$thumbnail = NULL;
	}

Perhaps you might know whats wrong now.

I'm still trying to figure out how this code works though. The only thing I'm trying to use it for is to save the thumbnails on my server when one is requested. So if the thumbnail is queued up...the default image is displayed. But then how would it save it to the server? I only run this code once when a user creates a new theme. Hopefully this makes sense to you, but my question is this: If an image is queued up and not available instantly when running this code, how does it update itself? Do I need to run this code again? Perhaps this is my problem...The thumbnails are getting a slight queue and therefore returning a no image exsists and not storing anything.

After thinking about it a bit more, the API returns a html img tag with the picture is this correct? I have been using it to only create an image which has worked until this point because there were no queue times. So to properly use this code, I should place the function call where I want my image tag to be located?

I'll I meant is that I did not realize the function returned anything. I've been using the API only to create an image on the server...This will solve all the problems I've been having by using the API as it was intended.

Thanks for the clarification on everything, I should be able to get it working when I get home.

Yup works perfectly! Thanks again, it looks great.

Hi,

I have tried to put this &inside=1 tag into my current URL, it work on my affiliate link but for the rest of the link, they didn't work. If I get rid of this inside=1, the rest of the links work fine but the affiliate link didn't. What should I do to make it work on affiliate link?

ps: I am currently using phpLD 3.3 script for my directory. Thanks

Hi brandon,

thanks for prompt reply. Yes this is what I have done. You can see the outcome in my site now (www.moneysearch4u.co.uk), what happen most affiliate link displayed ok, but all other non-affiliate links still waiting/queued. I tried that last night, wait until this morning, but they are all the same and uploading at all. What might be the problem? or I just need to wait until it display. Thanks