Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Import External Images

This vBulletin 4 product imports external images in your posts from external servers or paths into a specific path, normally your forum's image folder.

Differently than the previous product Image Cache for vBulletin 3.x., it parses the posts at regular intervals for new images and replaces the external references in the background. Also, instead of using only a single folder, it creates folders for years and months, making it much easier to handle large quantities of images. The source and destination image URL's are stored into database, too, avoiding unnecessary duplicates.

It moves and optionally converts images from one place to another. It is a handy tool in order to keep your images local to your forums.

Version 1.0.4 is temporarily in BETA stage until the users have confirmed the newly requested features.
Version 1.0.5 is still in BETA stage. It adds a new bunch of additional features, one of which allows you to test your mathematical understanding ... and a few other to fine-tune CURL and socket timeouts, and resizing on the fly of too large images. If you don't know what these options do, please leave them at their default values.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Manoel J?nior

Please, help-me!!

My images stopped being imported, or rather they are imported but they are in my FTP with nomenclature: 3391.attach.pl_cached not 3391.imgcache

How can I do to fix this?

I have no idea how this could happen. Do you have a symbolic link or mount point to a different volume?

[Manoel J?nior]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

I have no idea how this could happen. Do you have a symbolic link or mount point to a different volume?

I do not know! I did the following test:

1. I changed the location of storage of images, I gave permission 777
2. I created a new topic with a picture
3. I went on FTP, the new folder, and he created the folder and subbasta, but with the year 2011, and within that folder there is no file.

What steps can I take to resolve this problem?

[y2ksw]

Was the picture publically accessible? For example, if you paste an image from your desktop, Apache is not able to read it and ignores it. Also, if the image is a dynamic URL or the location needs passwords, you may see the images but Apache not.

[Manoel J?nior]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

Was the picture publically accessible? For example, if you paste an image from your desktop, Apache is not able to read it and ignores it. Also, if the image is a dynamic URL or the location needs passwords, you may see the images but Apache not.

Hello y2ksw,

From what I can gather is that this file that you've (3391.attach.pl_cached) relates to the attachments, so please disregard that part.

What is happening is that it creates the directory, but does not create the files. As an example I quoted my post above:

1. I changed the location of storage of images, I gave permission 777
2. I created a new topic with a picture
3. I went on FTP, the new folder, and he created the folder and subdirectory, but with the year 2011, and within that folder there is no file.

I found it strange that instead of creating the directory in 2012 he created the directory 2011.

In keeping with this structure:

./imgcache/2011/03 /

And inside the directory there is nothing, but he created the directory and subdirectory.

Thanks for you help!!!!

[y2ksw]

Could you please try to create a file from a script in that folder and see what rights it has (or what errors):

PHP Code:

<?php
$fp = fopen('imgcache/2011/03/test.file', 'wb');
fwrite($fp, 'abc');
fclose($fp);

echo file_get_contents('imgcache/2011/03/test.file');
die;
?>

[Manoel J?nior]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

Could you please try to create a file from a script in that folder and see what rights it has (or what errors):

PHP Code:

<?php
$fp = fopen('imgcache/2011/03/test.file', 'wb');
fwrite($fp, 'abc');
fclose($fp);

echo file_get_contents('imgcache/2011/03/test.file');
die;
?>

It created the file perfectly content with abc

What could be wrong? Very thanks for you help!

[temsamane]

is this working for 4.1.10?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Manoel J?nior

It created the file perfectly content with abc

What could be wrong? Very thanks for you help!

What was the reason for which you changed the previous folder to another? Are the foldernames syntactically the same?

I mean:
/abc = /def
but not:
/abc <> ./def/

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by temsamane

is this working for 4.1.10?

Yes

[Manoel J?nior]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

What was the reason for which you changed the previous folder to another? Are the foldernames syntactically the same?

I mean:
/abc = /def
but not:
/abc <> ./def/

I have not changed, has always been this directory. What I meant earlier, that he should have created a new folder with the year 2012, would not it?