Cannot make Gregwar/Image working in laravel

[yelnyafacee]

I installed the Gregwar/Image package ( https://github.com/Gregwar/Image ) to laravel, I changed the caching directory to $cacheDir = '/public/cache/images/';, I can generate cached image in php artisan tinker, but when I use it in blade template or controller I get the http://localhost/testsite/public/cache/images//f/a/l/l/b/fallback.jpg error url instead, I have narrowed down the problem to: Gregwar\Image\Adapter\GD and this function:

    protected function openJpeg($file)
    {
        if (file_exists($file) && filesize($file)) {
            $this->resource = @imagecreatefromjpeg($file);
        } else {
            $this->resource = false;
        }
    }

code used in blade:

<div class="faceted_objects thumbnail_container" data-url="/pictures/album/test_324716/sorted/new/page/1/">

    <?php

    use Gregwar\Image\Image;

    echo Image::open('public/storage/uploads/images/picture/1/bacon-broccoli-egg-bites21.jpg', 'transparent', 'center', 'center')
        ->zoomCrop(100, 100)
        ->jpeg();

    ?>

    {{--{{ gregwar_image( 100, 100, 'zoomCrop', 'picture/1/bacon-broccoli-egg-bites21.jpg' ) }}--}}

    {!! $image->getOtherImages() !!}

</div>

the code inside if (file_exists($file) && filesize($file)) { never runs and filesize() returns NOTHING using print_r or dd(), I have no idea how to fix this, the weird thing is it works in php artisan tinker but NOT on the actual site

[garygreen]

If you get the fallback it's cos gregwar can't find the file.

You should try to use absolute paths always. The Laravel public_path() helper may help you here, or base_path(), depending on where your images are on your server.

public_path('picture/1/bacon-broccoli-egg-bites21.jpg')

[hebertlima]

same error, but actually work with .png but not work with .jpg

// wBEyifMlUNkqnRGxaPpqUU1RHpgVro1hD1aPzBEu.png #work
// wBEyifMlUNkqnRGxaPpqUU1RHpgVro1hD1aPzBEu.jpg #not work

$image = 'wBEyifMlUNkqnRGxaPpqUU1RHpgVro1hD1aPzBEu.jpg';

// filesystem.php
['articles' => [
     'driver' => 'local',
     'root' => storage_path('app/public/articles')
]];

#full path 
var_dump( \Storage::disk('articles')->path($image) );
# /workspace/storage/app/public/articles/wBEyifMlUNkqnRGxaPpqUU1RHpgVro1hD1aPzBEu.jpg'

\Image::open( \Storage::disk('articles')->path($image) )->zoomCrop(130,75)->guess();
// cache/images/f/a/l/l/b/fallback.jpg

[Nimdoc]

You will also get the fallback image if the jpeg is unable to be opened but still exists. If you comment out the try/catch statement here, you will see what error is causing the package to be unable to open jpegs. In my case, I did not have gd properly installed.