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A TimThumb error has occured to show external images link

getting error when I use timthumb.php to show the images…

A TimThumb error has occured

The following error(s) occured: You may not fetch images from that site. To enable this site in timthumb, you can either add it to $ALLOWED_SITES and set ALLOW_EXTERNAL=true. Or you can set ALLOW_ALL_EXTERNAL_SITES=true, depending on your security needs.

TimThumb version : 2.8.10

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Brook Shelley • June 29, 2016

Find this string in your timthumb.php:

// external domains that are allowed to be displayed on your website
$allowedSites = array (
	'flickr.com',
	'picasa.com',
	'blogger.com',
	'wordpress.com',
	'img.youtube.com',
);

And add the site you are trying to display images from to the list, then save and relaunch.

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