I have a module which sends out an email via Mailchimp with a scheduled task for Magento’s internal cron and in doing so looks up the product image.
Mage::helper('catalog/image')->init($product, 'small_image')->resize(150));
The problem being only the placeholder was being returned when the cron job was executed. To confuse matters when I ran the script in testing from the browser it would return the correct image.
This is a nasty problem at first I thought this might be the answer Sangay details there that if your config does not specify a M,GB etc that it will return the wrong calculation, but then why the different results depending on how I ran the script?
To get to the bottom of this I ran what is being run in Mage_Catalog_Helper_Image
$model = Mage::getModel('catalog/product_image');
$model->setBaseFile($this->product->getData('small_image'))->resize(600,600);
$url = $model->saveFile()->getUrl();
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Varien_Exception' with message 'Memory limit has been reached.' in /lib/Varien/Image/Adapter/Gd2.php:58
Returning this shows the actual exception I did not get any Exception in the Mage exception log, and not in the host’s error log. On my part a server configuration oversight as the CLI php.ini did not have the error log set up. In any case that’s the error.
Because the value returned from _convertToByte function in Mage_Catalog_Helper_Image is -1 as the CLI php.ini sets the memory_limit to -1 (unlimited).
This could be an oversight by Magento or a design feature not to run this task on unlimited memory, personally I think it’s a bug. I modified the function to the following to set a 2G limit in this case.
if (stripos($memoryValue, 'M') !== false) {
return (int)$memoryValue * 1024 * 1024;
}
elseif (stripos($memoryValue, 'KB') !== false) {
return (int)$memoryValue * 1024;
}
elseif ($memoryValue == "-1") {
return '2147483648'; //2G
}
Very Helpful
I faced same issue. However I am not able to figure it out.
Nice post. Keep It up.
BTW
I solved this problem by
Mage::getModel(‘catalog/product_media_config’)
->getMediaUrl($_product->getSmallImage());
Right now I am facing same kind of issue with cron. Not able to send email using sendTransactional function.
While executing cron from admin(Aoe_Scheduler) its working fine but its not working when its schedule and executed by cron automaticaly
Please help me if you have any solution.
Thank you
What about something to do with store scope? You can run the observer in a test script setting the store beforehand to see what’s going on.
Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(2); $observer = Mage::getModel('myapp/observer'); $observer->myFunction();