Getimagesize() - read error

Question

So I'm doing some maintenance on other people's legacy code, and I've fixed some basic permissions issues, however now in an image uploader, I'm getting the following error:

Warning: getimagesize() [function.getimagesize]: Read error! in /home/kirby/public_html/members/upload_advanced.php on line 211

Now, the permissions for that directory are set to allow read, execution and write - what would cause that issue? Could it be that the uploader isn't correctly writing the information?

Answer 1

I've seen this before, and for me it was a memory issue, failing in the method:

_getNeedMemoryForFile

Probably the safest bet is to wrap to try-catch and handle the exception as gracefully as possible.