Project talk:Support desk/Sections/Images

Hello, My hosting provider disabled 'passthru' function and I am getting the following warning message when I try to include an thumbnail using the following syntax

Warning: passthru has been disabled for security reasons in ////includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 2030''' '''

Is there any alternative to passthru

Thanks in advance PS: exec is also disabled

I am befuddled
Here's where I'm at:

So the question is: how do I delete the bloody thing???
 * I started off with a file (http://www.gunownersresource.com/gorole/index.php?title=File:Faldiag.gif) that needed to be converted to .jpg because some .gifs just won't display right in thumbnail form - long story, don't worry about it, not the issue here.
 * Copied the file to my HDD and converted it to this: http://www.gunownersresource.com/gorole/index.php?title=File:Faldiag.jpg and now the bloody thing won't display at all.
 * When I try to go to it in IE, it blabs about a 500 error. In Firefox, it just gives me a blank and when I try to view source, there's nothing there to view.  Nada, zilch.

Any suggestions would be great, thanks. --Grugnir 04:26, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * http://www.gunownersresource.com/gorole/index.php?title=File:Faldiag.jpg&action=delete Max Semenik 06:19, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, mate; that did the trick. --Grugnir 15:40, 17 December 2009 (UTC)