Manual talk:$wgForeignFileRepos

Using files from Wikimedia Commons
I followed Manual:$wgForeignFileRepos but the wiki goes blank when I hit preview or submit with an image tag that doesn't exist in the wiki (and presumably the wiki will attempt to find for it on commons). I am using MediaWiki 1.13.3. Example: (removed) Why would this be? --Yonghokim 17:59, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * As stated on the page, it requires PHP 5.2.0 or greater, you seem to have only PHP 5.1.6. i Alex  19:44, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I upgraded to PHP 5.2 and it works. Thank you! --Yonghokim 00:58, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Using files from a local folder : FSRepo
I followed the instruction on the page and I am using Php 5.2. I digged a bit into the code and it seems that GroupRepo does not see the foreign repository. Any idea what is going wrong here? 08:09, 10 June 2009 (UTC) Andreas

EXIF errors
We're running MediaWiki 1.14.0 and PHP 5.2 and everything works just fine except when viewing the images. PHP Warnings are generated: http://pastebin.vanonymous.org/pastebin.php?show=8 The page loads fine, however when attempting to view the metadata table the info doesn't exist. Forgott3n 09:25, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Similar error
@ http://wikademia.org/File:Coffee_at_King's_Road_Café.jpg I get the error: "Warning: preg_match expects parameter 2 to be string, array given in..."

This only appears on some images. For example:

http://wikademia.org/File:Haeckel_Florideae_Chondrus_crispus.png

That image does not display the error.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
 * I get the same error here but not here. Is this problem related to the PNGs or does somebody experience it for other image formats ? --PiRK 02:43, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Inline display of commons-Media
Hi,

I am Lars one of the administrators of the german PflegeWiki. In our Wiki the question for displaying images from the commons inline in our articles. I found the $wgForeignFileRepos as you see and now I have a question before defining the variable. Will the variable override the def's for images (we have a pool for sharing images with the english NursingWiki)? How will the System decide wich repo to use? Is there a different tag? We're using Bild: and/or Image:. We would be very happy if someone would takt care of our problems... Greets and thanks in advance, --Bruder Lars 06:46, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Cannot redeclare class HttpRequest
Upgrading to 16.0 lead to Cannot redeclare class HttpRequest in httpFunctions.php on line 122 when trying to upload any file. Commenting out the piece in LocalSettings.php below resolved it: $wgForeignFileRepos[] = array(  'class'                   => 'ForeignAPIRepo',   'name'                    => 'shared',   'apibase'                 => 'http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php',   'fetchDescription'        => true, // Optional   'descriptionCacheExpiry'  => 43200, // 12 hours, optional   'apiThumbCacheExpiry'     => 43200, // 12 hours, optional, but required for local thumb caching ); Don't know why but uploading is functioning again. Arent 15:35, 20 August 2010 (UTC)