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 bond010007

i really looking for one like that but what about images hosted on my web site? inside my forum or in same domain name

thanks in advance

and pls we ned it for 4.1

You may define in the options all domains to images to keep intact.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by TiGer ShobiK

Hello y2ksw

i make every thing folder with chmod 777 and run the product , it make sub-folder ( 2010 ) but not have any images and the table of your product is 0 don't have any thing

i sent to my server menagment and them tolde me chmod 777 not worked with SUPHP and that must be to 755 , i change it to 755 and not worked also ...

note : i installed it for 2 weeks and no any images imported


please help me ..

thanks

Also check that you are the owner or, that Apache is the owner.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Nosfer@tu

GREAT PRODUCT.

I have been missing this feature, and Vb declined to implement it because of copy rigth shite

EXELENT, will report back when I have tested.

EDIT

BTW what happens to images already uploaded to the forum via the attachment system?
Nothing I guess ?

What about images that have a thumbnail link?
Like images on photobucket or imageshack.us ?

Will it download the largest image and thumbnail it or ?

thumbnails

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by dcuellar

Any chance this can run in real time?

Nope. In order to keep the failures as low as possible, and have nearly zero impact on your server performance while people browse, and no impact on code changes as they happen too often, I have decided to adapt the cronjob technique, which is much more reliable, too.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by urstorm.com

worked for me for a wile then stoped ! i dont know why ! its tranfered about 1480 inm at all 98mb then stop days left no change . but i am sure my forum have more than 50 000 img
have dedi server ..

disk full? 100 MB sounds like that ...

[urstorm.com]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

disk full? 100 MB sounds like that ...

i have full server 250gb nothing full!!!
do u thing if i uninstall it it and reinstall it working or what is ur advice to fix this ?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by urstorm.com

i have full server 250gb nothing full!!!
do u thing if i uninstall it it and reinstall it working or what is ur advice to fix this ?

You said nothing else, I was just guessing

[sticky]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

Nope. In order to keep the failures as low as possible, and have nearly zero impact on your server performance while people browse, and no impact on code changes as they happen too often, I have decided to adapt the cronjob technique, which is much more reliable, too.

I do get failures from time to time where images will be replaced and the wrong image will be shown.

How do I cut down on these?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by sticky

I do get failures from time to time where images will be replaced and the wrong image will be shown.

How do I cut down on these?

If images have been replaced on source, there is nothing I can do about it.

[sticky]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

If images have been replaced on source, there is nothing I can do about it.

I understand, but why does it replace incorrectly sometimes?

It works about 90% of the time correctly but sometimes it will replace an image with the wrong image.

And can it be edited to use the same image name as the source?