Faker->image() return 0 on windows local env

[FFomaXX]

Versions

Module/Lib	Version
PHP	8.1.5
fakerphp/faker	1.19.0
Laravel	9.10.0

Faker->image() return 0 on windows local env, but it works with adding at Faker\Provider\Image after string 114:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

Is this a safe solution?

[pimjansen]

No this means there is an ssl issue at the image host. Ignoring the ssl certificate is never a secure option

[schonhoff]

Hello,
we have the same issue. Would love to see a solution for this. Is there another way to fake an image?

PHP 8.0.18
fakerphp/faker 1.19.0
laravel/framework 9.12.2

[alexhampu]

I also have issues with Faker returning false when generating an image. After investigating, the reason is caused by CloudFlare blocking the request on my IP, but if I access the generated placeholder.com link, CloudFlare doesn't block my request.

[saldasib]

Hello,

I have similar issue and I (temporary locally) solved adding User-Agent:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0');

like suggest here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62425649/cant-load-image-by-placeholder-com-url

[schonhoff]

Hello,

I have similar issue and I (temporary locally) solved adding User-Agent: curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0');

like suggest here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62425649/cant-load-image-by-placeholder-com-url

Maybe that could be included into the package as a PR/Commit. It worked for me but changing a vendor package is not the way I would solve the issue.

[saldasib]

Hello,
I have similar issue and I (temporary locally) solved adding User-Agent: curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0');

like suggest here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62425649/cant-load-image-by-placeholder-com-url

Maybe that could be included into the package as a PR/Commit. It worked for me but changing a vendor package is not the way I would solve the issue.

Yes Totally agree with you, I just have no time to do PR/Commit and only a quick local test

[pluc]

The same thing is happening to me where $faker->image() is returning FALSE now as of the latest version.

This could be a placeholder.com issue which means, for Faker, that it should allow alternatives.

[pimjansen]

Just to summarize. The issue is not Faker itself but the external vendor where it retrieves the images (placeholder.com).

It is also something we won't fix since it would mean a breaking change where we have to add an extra dependency on php-gd to generate the actual images.

For Faker 2.x we will remove the image generation from the Core package where an external one can be used.

For now i suggest using a custom provider instead

[pluc]

Anyone who's here looking for a quick fix, this could help:

https://github.com/morawskim/faker-images

[alexhampu]

@pluc this is a good alternative for me, instead of creating a custom provider myself. Thanks!

[koficoud]

Just to summarize. The issue is not Faker itself but the external vendor where it retrieves the images (placeholder.com).

It is also something we won't fix since it would mean a breaking change where we have to add an extra dependency on php-gd to generate the actual images.

For Faker 2.x we will remove the image generation from the Core package where an external one can be used.

For now i suggest using a custom provider instead

Adding an option in CURL, isn't that a solution? In this case a user agent.

[pluc]

Is this a safe solution?

No this means there is an ssl issue at the image host. Ignoring the ssl certificate is never a secure option

The user agent has nothing to do with it

[petsoukos]

Please check if you can curl anything from placeholder.com, they use Cloudflare maybe you have been blocked.

• assuming placeholder.com is your provider

[mishinroman94]

Can you please tell me when the new working version will be released?

[pimjansen]

Can you please tell me when the new working version will be released?

There wont be a release or a fix for this. Its an external service that is used (placeholder.com)