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.

[majjed2008]

hello

can we made it import the VB image also from thumps like that we have all picture in just onne folder ?

Thank you

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Manoel J?nior

You can import images directly to my database rather than to a folder on my FTP?

No. It is not intended to create attachments.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by majjed2008

hello

can we made it import the VB image also from thumps like that we have all picture in just onne folder ?

Thank you

It is not possible to determine if an image you see in the posts is a thumb or actually an image. Thus it will import only images which have a recognizable format with the IMG BBCode.

[majjed2008]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

It is not possible to determine if an image you see in the posts is a thumb or actually an image. Thus it will import only images which have a recognizable format with the IMG BBCode.

thank you is there any way that we can import thump or change them to be in folder as image , anyone know please ?

[elfenny]

I created the folder with 777 permissions but not create subfolders.

The mod does not work, how can I fix?

[Bob_R]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

As it turns out, the question was different. You want to know if you can block hotlinking on your server. The answer is yes and it has nothing to do with this mod.

In order to block hotlinking you will have to add 3 (or more) lines in your .htaccess file, like:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?yourdomain.com(/)?.*$     [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp)$ - [F,NC]

Originally Posted by Bob_R

OK, maybe I'll try it by adding the code to the .htaccess myself. My server people tried it thru cPanel and it did not work. Not saying that it's this mods fault just sharing.

I also heard from a trusted friend that "hotlink protection (via an htaccess file) doesn't protect images uploaded to vbulletin because they are being requested via php files, not via their native file name."

I'll keep you informed.

OK, did the code. It works if you post an image to another site with HTML img.

But, all I have to do is wrap the image in BB code ex. [img]www.thisisanimage[/img] and it still shows on the offending site.

Anyway around this?

Thanks!

[Bob_R]

OK, I believe it is working. Because of this mod though you cannot use a hotlnk error image because it copies the hotlink error image and replaces the original pic on your site.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Bob_R

OK, I believe it is working. Because of this mod though you cannot use a hotlnk error image because it copies the hotlink error image and replaces the original pic on your site.

There is no way around. Sites may enable hotlink protection at their discretion, but usually the plugin works. Some exceptions made. You may "whitelist" those domains in the options and thus they will keep the hotlink.

[Bob_R]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

There is no way around. Sites may enable hotlink protection at their discretion, but usually the plugin works. Some exceptions made. You may "whitelist" those domains in the options and thus they will keep the hotlink.

It's working except for that for the the hotlink image also ends up showing on my site.

I've since taken out the image. It'll now just show a blank empty post on the offending site.

I'm I reading you right, whitelist will make the image show? How do I whitelist?

Thanks.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Bob_R

It's working except for that for the the hotlink image also ends up showing on my site.

I've since taken out the image. It'll now just show a blank empty post on the offending site.

I'm I reading you right, whitelist will make the image show? How do I whitelist?

Thanks.

Please go to the options. There is a big field with according description and most probably already a "path" of a previous release of this product. Just add as many items you need