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 dacho

Thanks mate,
If I want to import the images to sub donain ?
like that : static.domain.com/imported

I change the "Imported Images Folder" to ../static.domain.com/imported
the setting of "Remove Invalid Images" on OFF

It does not work for me, it's replace the link of the image to "clear.gif" (Although marked him - not). And not import the file to Sub Domain

Do you have any ideas ?

I knew it wouldn't work that way ...

This plugin is meant to import images from other sites in order to avoid the loss, which sooner or later would happen.

If you need to store images in paths outside your forum domain, you may use symbolic links. Under Linux this is pretty simple to achieve. Additionally, with sftpfs (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sftpfs/) you may store and retrieve them at any place in the world. There are other tools for the same problem, too.

However, the image paths remain local. If you mass-wish a different storage location than the forum domain, I may have a look into it, but please don't expect me to be quick and professional ... such a thing requires a lot of testing and is surely not easy to implement. Besides a considerably higher amount of time needed to maintain the whole thing

[dacho]

Thanks for the reply.
It is possible that it will cancel the previous server link of the picture - to kill the [URL] ?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by dacho

Thanks for the reply.
It is possible that it will cancel the previous server link of the picture - to kill the [url] ?

Deciding when to delete the URL around a picture is the most difficult task. It could be a legit URL pointing to another site, and then you would not wish to delete it. In other cases, it could point nowhere (dead), or to a larger image, like it would happen to imageshack servers for example.

I believe you will have to use direct MySQL queries or handcrafted code in order to remove the links you don't like to keep. There is no magic fomula which may guess the right thing to do

[dacho]

I think it can erase all the links,
It's Better if we have the option to decide whether to cancel the links or not, or decide which links do not cancel.
It can improve product

[sticky]

Is it possible to set this to avoid certain forums?

[dcuellar]

Wow. Exactly what I needed. This is perfect for people who want to rewrite external links for advertising like linkbucks. Linkbucks now skips images and lytebox will work because the images are all local.

I just hope this continues to work when I upgrade to 4.1.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by sticky

Is it possible to set this to avoid certain forums?

No.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by dcuellar

Wow. Exactly what I needed. This is perfect for people who want to rewrite external links for advertising like linkbucks. Linkbucks now skips images and lytebox will work because the images are all local.

I just hope this continues to work when I upgrade to 4.1.

It should work for all coming versions

[Hateman]

Hi Mate,

i think it dosen't work with vBulletin 4.1. I installed all thinks probably the cacher dont do his work.

[Gostemilov]

Great mod! I nominate it! But what about CMS posts? Is it possible to parse CMS tables? I need it very, very much! Thanks a lot! (4.0.8)