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.

[sarangan]

Originally Posted by clutchthese

Do you have any idea about the .gif's? I really like this mod, but don't want it to copy the .gif images as jpg... they're not animated after saving to server.

It's because you setted option "Always Convert Images" to yes. Set it No if you don't want gifs to be converted to jpg.

[clutchthese]

No, i don't have that selected. It's set to no.

[BirdOPrey5]

Mine keeps gifs as gifs... always has.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by clutchthese

No, i don't have that selected. It's set to no.

If you have scaling enabled and the image needs resizing, it is converted to jpg too, because gif animations would get lost anyways.

[clutchthese]

^^That's good to know. Thank you for that!

[BadgerDog]

We're running vBulletin 4.1.3pl5 and current version of Import External Images ?

Has anyone experienced problems with standard IMG code not being able to open a pic that exists and is properly stored on the server?

I've had reports of members saying all they get in a thread is a "Not Found" error, when in fact the pic is store properly on the server and can be displayed by cutting and pasting the link into the browser directly.

When I use "Firebug" in FireFox to check the code execution, I get this...

<img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.xxxxx.com/images/imported/2012/03/M14-1.jpg" original="http://www.xxxxx.com/images/imported/2012/03/M14-1.jpg" style="">

... but, it's highlighted in RED and says it "Failed to load the given URL"?

Note that the filename displayed by Firebug diagnostics that it says vBulletin's standard HTML code is seeing is M14-1.jpg (upper case M) when in fact the file is stored on the Unix server as m14-1.jpg (lower case m) and the IMG code in the actual post refers to is as m14-1.jpg (lower case m). So, for whatever reason, somehow the filename is being converted to an UPPER case and so it doesn't match.

It appears to just be happening with pics in the last month or so.

Interestingly enough, if I change the filename on the server to m141.jpg and also edit the post and change the IMG reference to m141.jpg, it displays fine ....

Regards,
Doug

ps: I substituted XXX's in the link above for privacy and security reasons ..

[mescalin]

Perfect plugin and a great idea! This plugin can also have a cron to delee unused images anymore. In example it can run cron to check if there is a link to that pic in db and if not it deletes them. Its a great plugin.

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by mescalin

This plugin can also have a cron to delee unused images anymore. In example it can run cron to check if there is a link to that pic in db and if not it deletes them. Its a great plugin.

That would be a great add-on.... can anyone write something like that?

Regards,
Doug

[BadgerDog]

Reference post #326 ....

Problem fixed ....

Thanks ...

Regards,
Doug

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

We're running vBulletin 4.1.3pl5 and current version of Import External Images ?

Has anyone experienced problems with standard IMG code not being able to open a pic that exists and is properly stored on the server?

I've had reports of members saying all they get in a thread is a "Not Found" error, when in fact the pic is store properly on the server and can be displayed by cutting and pasting the link into the browser directly.

When I use "Firebug" in FireFox to check the code execution, I get this...

<img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.xxxxx.com/images/imported/2012/03/M14-1.jpg" original="http://www.xxxxx.com/images/imported/2012/03/M14-1.jpg" style="">

... but, it's highlighted in RED and says it "Failed to load the given URL"?

Note that the filename displayed by Firebug diagnostics that it says vBulletin's standard HTML code is seeing is M14-1.jpg (upper case M) when in fact the file is stored on the Unix server as m14-1.jpg (lower case m) and the IMG code in the actual post refers to is as m14-1.jpg (lower case m). So, for whatever reason, somehow the filename is being converted to an UPPER case and so it doesn't match.

It appears to just be happening with pics in the last month or so.

Interestingly enough, if I change the filename on the server to m141.jpg and also edit the post and change the IMG reference to m141.jpg, it displays fine ....

Regards,
Doug

ps: I substituted XXX's in the link above for privacy and security reasons ..

That sounds very strange to me. Not even a system or web server issue, IMHO. Do you have other plugins installed which may interfere with images? Like image resizers?