Yes. In the option description it says:

It means, if you have a gallery folder, you would add in a new line:

/gallery/

If it is a subdomain or domain:

gallery.domain.tld

If it is ImageShack:

imageshack.

And don't forget to backup your post table this time ;)

The point is: it moves external images to your server. But I can't tell if it is useful to you :)

I only have a complete backup from about 6 months ago and Ive since upgraded from 3.6 to 4.1.4 Is it possible to only use the one table from the complete backup and since its the older version of VB would that be a problem?

It is a problem, because the database structure has changed. In order to use the backup you would have to restore the backup in a sandbox, upgrade, backup again and restore as indicated with replace into. However there is no guarantee it works, because I suppose you have (had) also other plugins and probably the database structure isn't exactly the same.

Yep it has changed.

So to be clear since I would like to use the mod.

in the white list, if my site is root/forum and root/gallery all I need to do is add /gallery/ to the list.

Perhaps I was reckless but I wanted image resizing, so I installed the 1.0.5 version on my test board.

I was not sure from the instructions whether the mod would create the /images/import directory or I would need to do that, so I ran it for a little while without manually creating the directory. The directory did not appear, so I then created the directory with 755 permissions.

I then ran the mod for about an hour and checked the table iei_img to see what was going on. The table shows a number of images have been re-url'd with many going to year based subdirectories and many just being ignored because they were invalid.

However, the /images/import/ directory remains empty.

Here is a translated url from the table

http://mb.nawcc.org/forum/images/imported/2006/11/1.jpg

Are these entries just a "plan of work" and the code actually does the transfers as another background task?

I have turned the mod off by disabling the cron job at the moment

Yes, you would add add /gallery/ to the list. This however may also exclude /gallery/ images from anywhere else ... so maybe it's a good idea to include the domain, too, e.g.:

mydomain.com/gallery/

And please don't forget the backup! :)

These subfolders are created from the post date of the one they were taken from. The code parses posts one by one and tries to find pasted image references. If it finds one, it creates a new entry ([forumhome][setting]/year/month/progressive.extension) and imports the image and changes the reference in the post. Then it sets a flag to the post in order to avoid reparsing with value 1. Other values may follow for additional services and new add-ons.

If an image was imported previously, it just sets the new reference.

Doesn't seem to be working for me - vB 4.1.5.

Either the cron task is not running (when running it manually, it completes in an instant), or the code is not working. Either way, none of the images are being downloaded, or the URL replaced.

Any ideas?

Probably the task is not running. If you turn logging on (edit the task) you should see at least a note.

If no images are downloaded, probably your server is locked against downloads or by disallowing fopen on URL's or by firewall.

I turned on logging, made it manually run the task, and viewed the log - no entries.

Looks like the task is not running at all.

What now?

I'm running version 1.02, by the way.

Had the same when having had version 1.04 or 1.05 installed.

Thanks for this :)

No idea. If you have php logs somewhere, check if something is missing. Maybe the cronjob is disabled? Is the board off-line?

Nope, board is up and running. As far as I can tell, all other cron jobs are running just fine. Even checked in the cron folder to make sure the iei file has right permissions and ownership set.

It wasn't originally, but even after I changed it to reflect the other scripts' ownerships, it still doesn't work.

Truly confusing.

What's even more startling is that months ago when I first had it running, it appears to have been working (the import/images folder is created and has prior files in it). It just seems that the actual script simply doesn't want to run.

Even deleting it and reinstalling it made no difference.

Really odd.

Okay, I was able to verify that the script *does* execute :


Introduced an error in the script - script sticks. There's an obvious execution difference.

Remove the error, script seems to work. SO, we now know it executes the code, but the code does nothing.

Also, it generates an error in the general error log file, to verify that the introduced error was registered, and that the code was being executed otherwise:

[Tue Sep 06 22:22:59 2011] [error] [client 99.9.155.41] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/suaymac/public_html/includes/cron/iei_cron.php on line 24, referer: http://suaymac.com/suayadmincp/cronadmin.php?do=modify

Okay, so now what?

The script runs, but does nothing (or rather, not the intended behavior) - not quite sure what other places to look into.

Update - updating to 1.05, and previously completely removing the older version, made it work. It performs as expected now. Yay!

Thanks for the help!

One additional observation / request / question -- this script seems to work on the FORUM section, yet doesn't touch images in the CMS section. Is there some way to make it include those?

Ive noticed this is missing some photos. It seems images with this structure or at least from this site are not being imported.

This is my ignore list.

Any ideal why?

I would like to see this also.. :up:

That's a HTML page and not an image :)

Since it only displays the actual image on my site is there still a way to import it?

On your site, change the picture url to http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/335914DSC0001.jpg

Forgive my ignorance but how exactly would I do that? Is it a white-list setting or ???

You would do this with a query from phpmyadmin, such as:

This can be time consuming and a server killer, but then you would be able to import the pictures normally. Maybe you will have to run this query locally with a very large timeout. It isn't however a guarantee to work, and the img11 suggests there are at least 11 different solutions for one problem ...

Normally you would first run a script to see if all the images are coming from the same server and then apply a global query which solves links in bunches.

Broker with images:

Not record the image, how to fix?

There is no way to download images which need authorisation or which are hotlink-protected.

i ask for adding thread url as link for image
when image is hosted and change the url address to my site
i want to make the image itself can be clicked with url of the thread itself

so if one copy the thread the images will be clicked to my forum thread

It already works this way. It copies the image to your site and renames the URL to the image. If somebody copies the message, they also copy the correct URL.

If, one day, you change your domain name, just reinstall the product and the images are reimported with the new domain name's URL (if the old domain is still accessible).

i mean to make it clickable with link to the thread belong to it
to be for example the image been like this:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

if you click the image it will be direct to the this thread
and only should be this if the original has not link to another site
that what i mean

I understand. However, it is such an additional feature which just serves you and nobody else. I take note about this request, but most probably it will not be implemented.

I have all my pictures hosted on imageshack but tynipic or not the matter to my server

Sorry, was a technical failure, if I work

ciao y2ksw ho un problema! ho messo la 1.0.5 va bene! ma da qualche giorno ho problemi che in alcuni topic mostra immagini che non centrano con il contrnuto.
cioè mi spiego esempio se un topic ho messo una locandina di un albom ramazzotti, c'è il problema che l'immagine cambia e diventa altro.
non so se mi sono spiegato, a comunque non sono riuscito a capire sto problema.

thanks!

what have you changed before you had the problem? :)

4.1.8 ?

funciona

Sim, funciona perfeitamente!!!!

Installed this on a very old site and it turned every image link into a dead url.

I can post a good image link, run the cron and it is zapped.

Because it edits the database it is irrecoverable.

Use with caution.

I'd love to hear if there is anyway to fully uninstall this, and reverse any changes it made it image urls, as at present, i have a forum full of dead images, 1000's of them.

nothing :(

forse e dico forse ? stato quando ho resettato il database ad un giorni prima per? i file erano gli stessi e non del giorno prima. pu? essere? scusa se non parlo in inglese ma cos? mi spiego meglio, ripondi pure in inglese te non c'? problema.

The description of the plugin tells what it does, and I always have reccomended to make backups, test and check before using in production. It solves widely known problems, but it may not be adeguate to use in all situations.