Scheduled for next review :)

One question, is it possible to retreive the images and upload to other server?

For exaple giving a FTP account, so the forum domain is:

www.forum.com

And all the images are stored in other server/domain, for example

www.forumimages.com

so you have them in your server n?2, and all the posts in FORUM (in server 1) links them as:

[IMG ]http://www.forumimages.com/image 1.jpg [/IMG ]

Thanks!

Same, this would be awesome...

Please see here. :)

I am against watermarking images coming from other sites and thus will not implement this feature.

If you want to watermark the files, you may use quite easily a self-tailored script from SSH, or via cronjob and PHP, operating directly on the imported files.

This mod works almost perfectly except when a image is something like IMG_1123-1.jpg?t=1349992120 .

If there is anything after the .jpg it rarely imports correctly.

Well it's more that people use you as a host and steal your bandwith so you should get credit for you bandwith/server use.

I honestly don't know how to do what you mentioned but would love to learn and implement it...

I have exactly the same problem with filenamse containing a "-"....

Refer to my original post and y2ksw's anser following a few posts later:

Post 367 (click here)

From his answer, I assume there's nothing can be done about the issue... :(

Other than that, this is a fabulous mod and a great addition to our site... :up:

Regards,
Doug

You may convert images to jpg and then all images will not carry the original filename and/or extension.

However, if an image is dynamically linked, visibility may depend on your logged in state (or the state the "pasting" user is in) and thus may not work in any case. The server script is not logged into the remote media server (is a guest) and thus may not see anything.

this is working fine for me on vb3.8.7 .. just needed to remove the dependencies on the product file for it be installed

thanks

I'm interested in this mod. Should I download 1.0.2, 1.0.4, or 1.0.5? :confused: I assume 1.0.2 but I wish to be sure before I proceed. :)

And, what happened to 1.0.3? :D

That's not the issue. The issue is if someone is linking to a file that has anything after the .jpg. Then it doesn't import correctly.

normally you would choose the latest version. 1.0.5 :)

Gotcha ya!

It hasn't finished importing all the images yet. So, I hit Run Now in the Scheduled Task Manager and got this:

Request Timeout

This request takes too long to process, it is timed out by the server. If it should not be timed out, please contact administrator of this web site to increase 'Connection Timeout'.

Anything I can do about this?

It's scheduled to run every 10 minutes but the latest images imported were at 10:35 this morning :confused: about 4 hours ago.

EDIT

Another question

Include Forum ID's and Exclude Forum ID's

I did not enter any forumids in either box. Is this correct?

Thanks!!

1. There is nothing I can do about connection timeouts. It may be your PHP hosting plan has Safe Mode enabled and thus will timeout at the system settings. Or, the server is simply too busy to make fast connections on outgoing requests.
2. You should not play with these (actually all) options unless you really need to :)

OK.

So what do I do?

It hasn't run in nearly 24 hours.

Thanks.

These are instructions from the PDF file:

Large image quantities
If you have a very high number of images, the iei_cron.php task may run out of memory. If this happens, you can empty the iei_img table. By doing so, the script will start over with a new array of imported images, which is acceptable once and then. If you want to keep the history, please feel free to keep a backup of this table.

Please explain in detail how to do this.

This may be my problem. I've reduced the posts at once to 5. Convert to jpg and disabled Cache Image URL's.

If you have this option (depends on release you are using):

Cache Image URL's
Cache image URL's into memory. If you have a large board, a lot of imported images and limited memory, you may want to switch this option off. If disabled, images are tested by less efficient database queries.

Try to switch it off, first (No). Then, each request for an image is queried from the database instead of loading the file list into memory. If this does still not work, then you have a different problem.

I'm in the process of a doing a new install with my existing DB. It got me thinking...if I uninstall this, what can I expect to happen?

Will it say with them locally?
Default back to original?
Lose all images?

Thanks
John

A new install with the same database and all data? how? :)

At worst, the new installation of this product will try to re-import the images. However the uninstall code should be commented out and the lookup table should remain in place. Thus, reinstalling the plugin should not do any harm.

If the uninstallation code is not commented out, you will not loose any images though, because they are stored to your web space.

can we store the images in the DB

No. This plugin is intended to download images from external sites and store them to the file system. It is not meant to be a revamped or integrated attachment system :)

to bad, it make it hard for people with multiple servers to use :(

can you associate a sub-domain with the images?

Is there any way to debug and verify because the product in my Forum stopped working. Is there any way to debug and verify?

You may redirect images via .htaccess, for example.

I don't see the problem however. If you have multiple servers, how do the images influence their manner of "seing" images? Could you make an example of what you ahve and what you would like to have?

One of the possible issues are missing space, but also server settings. If your server disallow pulling in external content (sockets, curl, fopen) it is likely not working.

all my servers are behind a load balancer , they are all clones of each other.
you hit a random server every time you hit my site.
the easiest fix is to push the images to the db since. all the servers grab the images from the DB. since the db stores ALL the images its very easy to keep everything updated and accurate on all the servers.

If the servers are cloned, they should replicate/mirror the images after a while, too ... or not?

Hi,

My server suddenly stopped importing pictures...
can you tell me which settings do i have to check ?
(sockets, curl, fopen) where are they in the server?

We are using dedicated server / centos 6 / 64bit

Thank you

You first should check if your firewall allows to pull in external data, before anything else. Then, if PHP allows to use fopen on external sources, then which options are checked. If fopen does not allow to pull data, you must have CURL instead. The plugin prefers CURL over sockets and falls back to sockets, unless you choose to use only sockets.

Searching deeper, more exactly in error_log me this message appears:

Was that why the product is not working properly? What should I do?

I think the product tried to load a huge image. PHP usually has a space limit and in this case it has 128 MB per process and this memory ran out of space. Maybe you need to enable the image resizing and trim imported images down to a suitable limit.

Hi y2ksw,

That even when not doing more cache have to put the value 0 in attributes: Maximum Width and Maximum Height.

When I put 0 value stopped giving error and now is doing the caching of images.

Thanks for all the help and serves as a warning to others.

There is a problemmi? Pictures ftp uploading beautifully. However, I opened the new topics added almost 6 hours but still ftp. What's the problem?

Dear friends:

This extension is amazing, I use it since months, and all works very well. The only problem is that, I'm using a vps with limited resources (apache, 512Mb ram). I've noticed that one of the slowest sql in my vps is the following:

As you can see, my posts table has only 278721 rows. I think this is a small forum, I suppose that there will be bigger forums out there. But you can see too, that the query time is very high (16sg). I have discarded another problem (very much visits, and so on).

Is there a way to increase the perfomance of this query?

Best regards and thanks in advance.

Not that I can think of. A server should really ahve more than 512 MB of RAM, specially when using a database server, too. You may try to add some MB to the MySQL key buffer, but I doubt it will help.

I don't know. This product imports only external images which can be read by the server, using CURL or fopen. If it doesn't work for you, I'm sorry, but there is nothing I can do about.

I installed this prodcut, but does nothing.

forum is installed in a subfolder:

www.website.com/forum

i create a folder images/imported to:

www.website.com/forum/images/imported

with 777 permissions

I uploaded the xml file, and nothing, when I put a picture in the forum does nothing.

for example I try this:
http://www.miblogdecineytv.com/image...ulas/Cars3.jpg

created a thread and put the image [IMG] Image [/IMG]

and still appears the url of miblogdecine .... and no create nothing in my server.

can anyone help me, please? thanks.

If it does nothing (please check with FTP in your imported folder), you system does not allow to pull in external data.