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.

[ar15dcm]

Will it do the same in CMS articles? If not, what would it take to add that functionality?

[tbworld]

Originally Posted by ar15dcm

Will it do the same in CMS articles? If not, what would it take to add that functionality?

I read in the thread that the CMS is not supported. The post was dated 2012, so don't take my word on it.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by ar15dcm

Will it do the same in CMS articles? If not, what would it take to add that functionality?

It's not supported. It would take quite some efford to read the articles the same way as it does for the forum posts and apply the changes. Essentially it needs another cronjob with almost no shared code.

[vvlo]

It is very useful product and I've used it for years
I will soon be ready for vb 5
Do you plan to do this?

[y2ksw]

I haven't tried it yet, but it may work probably just out of the box or with very few changes in vbulletin 5.

[vvlo]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

I haven't tried it yet, but it may work probably just out of the box or with very few changes in vbulletin 5.

I am very much looking forward to hearing good news
This is one of the most popular products that are offered by you

Sorry for my bad English

[Space_psy.be]

One thing I can confirm is that it works in v3.8.7-P4 without any changes.

For what I need it, I've done a small modification, mainly do a backup of the post before updating it.

What I'm most struggling with is the 27000+ posts that have images in them. It is slow. So I'm now rewriting parts of this addon so that it can run from cli.

If there is interest, I can contribute or publish the final cli version once it is finished. The code will not be nice though, I haven't coded much php in the last couple of years.

[madness85]

working great but if the thread is deleted does it clean up the un-used images?

[madness85]

No it doesn't clean un-used images can't use this sadly if it can't do it.

[y2ksw]

On large forums you can't tell if an image is reused. This is a plugin for typically very large forums, where the lack of images is much more critical than a few too many. Also, it may come handy to have a copy. Please think about it as a feature