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.

[clutchthese]

This replaces and .gif images with .jpg images, even when "don't convert to .jpg" is selected.

Is there anything you can do to allow this to work with .gifs?

[temsamane]

it there any update for last vb version?

is this mod slowing down the forum?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by clutchthese

This replaces and .gif images with .jpg images, even when "don't convert to .jpg" is selected.

Is there anything you can do to allow this to work with .gifs?

Can you make us a snapshot of your settings?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by temsamane

it there any update for last vb version?

is this mod slowing down the forum?

I have it running on 4.1.10.

And yes, it may slow down a little the forum. For this reason you may adjust he number of posts to parse and also setup manually the period when parsing should happen (cronjobs).

[clutchthese]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

Can you make us a snapshot of your settings?

No problem....

[sarangan]

New Feature request:

Problem: My forum is targetted by many spammers at this time. For that reason I moderate all new threads before showing to public. For 2 days ago a spammer posted 50 threads in my forum with about 50x30 = 1500 porn images. The problem was this plugin imported all those images.. Even I deleted all those spam threads, images are still in folder. :-(

Solution:
Adding an option to only begin to import images for approved threads. It should wait until a thread is approved by a mod or admin. Is this possible? If so, I'm looking forward to have this option implemented in this plugin.

Thanks for a really wonderful plugin which helped me a lot from having broken images.

[Rckcrwlr]

I need to add something like this due to the amount of images that are pertinent to the subject of the forum.

If it does not work, is there a way to get it back to original. I will back it up.

Is there a way to "test" it prior to flicking the switch?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by sarangan

New Feature request:

Problem: My forum is targetted by many spammers at this time. For that reason I moderate all new threads before showing to public. For 2 days ago a spammer posted 50 threads in my forum with about 50x30 = 1500 porn images. The problem was this plugin imported all those images.. Even I deleted all those spam threads, images are still in folder. :-(

Solution:
Adding an option to only begin to import images for approved threads. It should wait until a thread is approved by a mod or admin. Is this possible? If so, I'm looking forward to have this option implemented in this plugin.

Thanks for a really wonderful plugin which helped me a lot from having broken images.

This product is not intended to solve a lot of problems, but only one: avoid loosing hot-linked images forever. I understand there may be spam related and other problems, but a lot of additional options are also always a source of additional problems which I am unable to follow up.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Rckcrwlr

I need to add something like this due to the amount of images that are pertinent to the subject of the forum.

If it does not work, is there a way to get it back to original. I will back it up.

Is there a way to "test" it prior to flicking the switch?

You should try it first in a copy or test forum. Also, backups are always a good idea. Thre is no switch to try. It's on or off

[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.