Question Avatar upload doesn't work

I think you've already pointed to the cause of the problem in your earlier observation:

Am I missing a permission setting in another directory that is important?

I can't be sure of anything in this regard. The only suggestion I have to offer is to check and double-check each and every directory, sub-directory and file in you Joomla website. Perhaps you thought you'd changed them all, but maybe the changes weren't propagated recursively throughout the whole sub-directory structure?

I know what's happening.

Your version of PHP, if it's less than 5.2.1, does not support the function "sys_get_temp_dir".

What you can do as a fix if you don't want to compile 5.2.1 or higher and re-install, is you can put the following in about line 27 on the file

/components/com_kunena/template/default/plugin/myprofile/myprofile_avatar_upload.php

right after...

"require_once(KUNENA_PATH_LIB .DS. 'kunena.file.class.php');"

if ( !function_exists('sys_get_temp_dir')) {
function sys_get_temp_dir() {
if (!empty($_ENV)) { return realpath($_ENV); }
if (!empty($_ENV)) { return realpath( $_ENV); }
if (!empty($_ENV)) { return realpath( $_ENV); }
$tempfile=tempnam(uniqid(rand(),TRUE),'');
if (file_exists($tempfile)) {
unlink($tempfile);
return realpath(dirname($tempfile));
}
}
}

That will fix the problem in the mean time.

Cheers m8,

Jimmy

Or just upgrade to K1.5.4

I have the same problem, none of the tips in this thread has helped



* JFile::copy: Cannot find or read file: '/tmp/kn_foUYtS'
* JFile::copy: Cannot find or read file: '/tmp/kn_q4QDro'
* JFile::copy: Cannot find or read file: '/tmp/kn_zvyouU'

Try checking your permissions:
Help -> System Info -> Directory Permissions tab

Check that they are all writeable.

Now I get the idea on what's wrong.

@ merola:

Can you send information from your system: Operating system, Joomla FTP user, Apache user.
What are the permissions of those files? Owner, group, mode (0600?) ?

Matias wrote:

Or just upgrade to K1.5.4

I just got back and upgraded to 1.5.4 (released while I was away on vacation) which has solved the upload problem :woohoo:. I haven't encountered any more bugs yet, but I'll continue to test it out over the next week. Thanks again to everyone!

Chri

I did the same upgrade with the latest versions of Joomla and Kunena and it solved the avatar upload issue as I was getting the same page you were. The only problem Ive seen so far after this is selecting templates in the Kunena back end. When selecting a template, which works alright, the selection for the matching template graphics folder isn't in the drop down list at all. Haven't solved that one yet and Ive FTP the graphics files over to each template folder also and the accompanying php files. I am not a programmer, just a user but this is what I found so far.

Hi WrongWay,

do you talking about this drop down list?



for which template the graphics folder is not there?
Regards

Please try this, this worked for me, the problem is sys_get_temp_dir () and php version 5.2.0, where this function is broken.

For Kunena 1.5.4

Edit kunena.file.class.php (/components/com_kunena/lib/)

and replace the old code with new code:

old:

new:



Or use the attached file for Kunena 1.5.4 kunena.file.class.php and override the existing file in components/com_kunena/lib/