Images suddenly showing up as attchments
 

Recently my forum started showing images as attchments.

Repro:
Click "Insert image" in a post
Choose any image
click ok

result:
image never comes up in WYSIWYG editor
instead this text appears: [attachment]###[/attachment]

The file does get uploaded and is accessible to all users.

Any ideas what could be causing this?

The only real change I made recently was to move to PHP5.4.

Thanks

I believe it's a BBCode / Browser issue.
Consider voting for this...
http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-15470


and these...
http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-15459
http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-15462

Are you sure you are using the WYSIWYG editor and not the Source editor (they get toggled right there in the editor)?

I use the WYSIWYG editor.
Both the simple and complex one fail in both FF and Chrome.
I voted for one one the issues, but they don't seem to be exactly the issue I am having.

I'll try some trouble shooting with the source editor once I renable it.

A curious detail:
After adding an image it appears as an attachment "[attachment]123[attachment]" in the body of the WYSIWYG editor.

I can then add the attachment using the drop-down of the attachment icon. This adds and displays the image properly in the editor. The image management dialog pops up as expected.

When I save the post, the images all revert to attachments (simple links). showthread.php displays no images. Edit that post again, and I see images in the editor just like I did when I saved the post.

Do you have a custom style? Do you have any modifications? Can we get a link to see a post with this problem.

I fixed the problem, but I don't know what caused it.

I noticed that any new images did not have a thumbnail in the attachment manager. Everything displayed as the default "?" thumbnail.

So I rebuilt the thumbnails in "Control panel -> Maintenance". That not only made the thumbnails appear, but also made the image upload process work again. I can now upload images again. It does not look like I'll have to rebuild the thumbnail cache again.

There is something wrong in the source, for sure. I did not find the problem yet. I'll search some more, but without an error and stack trace I'll have a hard time finding the problem.


Just to reply:
Everything is custom about my site. Custom hacks, plugins,... you name it.
This post caused all the trouble, but it works now.

This was caused by running on PHP 5.4. Reverting to 5.3 fixes the issue.

Thumbnail creation does not work.
http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-14794

I guess VB does not support PHP5.4.
At least not now.