image resizing error in native.php

[Fiona]

Hi,

I am trying to apply Socrates 3.02 to my existing blog at http://www.cottagesmallholder.com
That brings its own set of challenges!
I am using a theme switcher, so the Socrates theme is not yet visible to visitors, only to Admins.

The home page under my current theme is configured to display the newest post in full, followed by the four most recent post excerpts with thumbnails. This will be reconfigured in Socrates. Right now, Socrates is attempting to display the five most recent posts in full.

One article is causing problems - the third one from the top. It appears correctly as a single post and in Category lists etc in Socrates. But it breaks the Home page in Socrates for some reason. I did reload the image using WP Media upload function and deleted the original image. But the path below to the image appears valid.

This is the relevant section of native.php with my simple debug "echo" lines

95 // no cache files - let's finally resize it
96 echo "File path $file_path <br />";
97 echo "Width $width <br />";
98 echo "Height $height <br />";
99 echo "Crop $crop <br />";
100 echo "output ends here <br />";
101 $new_img_path = image_resize( $file_path, $width, $height, $crop );
102 $new_img_size = getimagesize( $new_img_path );
103 $new_img = str_replace( basename( $image_src[0] ), basename( $new_img_path ), $image_src[0] );

This is the error that appears on the Home page, complete with the debug output:

Recipe for Fiona’s fabulous watercress soup
File path /home/cottages/public_html/wp-content/images/recipes/soup/picture_of_watercress_soup_recipe.jpg
Width 160
Height 160
Crop 1
output ends here

Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in /home/cottages/public_html/wp-content/themes/socrates/functions/native.php on line 102

strangely, I attempted to echo $new_img_path before line 102 but the error threw before it performed the echo.

Happy to PM Admin access credentials if that helps.

Thanks,
Fiona

[Dan Nickerson]

I honestly am not sure where to start with this issue.

Can I assume you've been through all the results in Google for: Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in

There are a lot...

[Fiona]

Correct. There are a lot.

It could be an incorrectly defined variable type, for example. But it seems likely that I am not the first user to have exercised that chunk of code. Given that the values appear valid as per my debug output I am stumped.

I am not a PHP coder, just a dabbler.

OK, I will try contacting the author of that 3rd party code module and point him to this thread.

[Dan Nickerson]

Have you checked the html tab of the article that is breaking it for any misformatted code.

[Fiona]

Hah!
I have discovered that the image link does not work for some (but not all) instances of displaying a thumbnail in my existing theme.
It must have something to do with my attempts to move or re-load the image to a different folder.

Sorry about that. It simply was not apparent in HTML. I need to ensure I have loaded it correctly in the WP media loader.

Thanks once again for your prompt response.