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 d19rnyxx

I needed to know if this mod has any issues with vbOptimise running memcache
Thanks

None I can think of.

[Old-Git]

Greta mod and I've been looking for something like this for a while.

You may change the task code (query) in order to limit it to certain forum sections. I believe I never will add an option for selecting forum ID's since to my opinion it does not make much sense to import only images for a few sections.

I don't want to grab every image that is posted to my forum, just the ones worthy of keeping. What I want to do is

1.) Create some archive forums for storing threads that are worthy of retention

2.) My archives are structured under one Category called Archives. Under that there are 7 or 8 other Sub-categories for historical eras. Under each sub-category there are 3 sub-forums.

3.) only Admins will be allowed to post in the Archives

4.) When Admin move a thread from normal posting forums to the 'Archive' forums all external images are then 'grabbed' and moved to localhost store (either in database or file system). This would mean the mod would have to treat a moved thread as a new post.

In my opinion this would make the perfect archiving solution and would mean I wasn't saving every piece of crud my users posted to the forums, just the stuff that needs saving. Yes, there's a manual element to it but then archiving is very much a manual process. So the ability to exclude all forums and set specific forums would be essential in this process.

Rgds

Pete

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Old-Git

Greta mod and I've been looking for something like this for a while.



I don't want to grab every image that is posted to my forum, just the ones worthy of keeping. What I want to do is

1.) Create some archive forums for storing threads that are worthy of retention

2.) My archives are structured under one Category called Archives. Under that there are 7 or 8 other Sub-categories for historical eras. Under each sub-category there are 3 sub-forums.

3.) only Admins will be allowed to post in the Archives

4.) When Admin move a thread from normal posting forums to the 'Archive' forums all external images are then 'grabbed' and moved to localhost store (either in database or file system). This would mean the mod would have to treat a moved thread as a new post.

In my opinion this would make the perfect archiving solution and would mean I wasn't saving every piece of crud my users posted to the forums, just the stuff that needs saving. Yes, there's a manual element to it but then archiving is very much a manual process. So the ability to exclude all forums and set specific forums would be essential in this process.

Rgds

Pete

Yeah, I agree

The philosophy of this plugin is however less archiving than saving images from disappearing over time. However, you may change the parsed sections and subfolders from time to time and achieve then a kind of archiving feature as you describe.

[Old-Git]

The philosophy of this plugin is however less archiving than saving images from disappearing over time.

Ah....but maybe I've given you something to think about?

At any rate I shall be installing this on my test rig this weekend and having a play, thanks for making it available Giovanni!

[Baitona]

HI,

is it possible to import the images to other domain?

[yahooooh]

perfect mod,is there way to add Watermark Image at specific position

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Baitona

HI,

is it possible to import the images to other domain?

Short answer: no

You would like to store the images to a media server which would need a lot of more operations. However, if you have Linux, you can use the fsftp file system in order to move imported files into another server, or a symbolic link to move it on the same server to another domain. Together with the Forum URL Replacement option, you may achieve then the desired effect.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by yahooooh

perfect mod,is there way to add Watermark Image at specific position

Watermarking is beyond the idea of this product.

I feel it's also a bit unethical to sign images as if they were yours, when they have been taken from an external site, instead. With adding watermarking, I would need to add special policies to my software in order to ensure that copyright infringement wouldn't harm me, in case you get sued. Depending on the laws in the country of the persuer, the software producer may have responsibilities regarding copyright infringements.

[maznos]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

Short answer: no

You would like to store the images to a media server which would need a lot of more operations. However, if you have Linux, you can use the fsftp file system in order to move imported files into another server, or a symbolic link to move it on the same server to another domain. Together with the Forum URL Replacement option, you may achieve then the desired effect.

first of all thank you for your good work

secondly I have a giant forum (over 1 million posts) and I love to install your hack, I am thinking of a small script file that will do the operation of moving uploaded files to multiple domains to spread the files and reduce the multi million files to be congested in single hosting account.

I'll let you know of what result I am getting into

thanks again

[sweetpotato]

I have this error for some images:

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.2:

Invalid SQL:
INSERT IGNORE INTO iei_img (
oldurl,
newurl
) VALUES (
'http://.....com/.21847008.lO70/christmasposter5.jpg',
'http://....net/images/imported/2010/12/6.jpg'
);

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006
Request Date : Saturday, March 19th 2011 @ 07:08:56 PM
Error Date : Saturday, March 19th 2011 @ 07:10:43 PM
Script : http://..../cronadmin.php?do=runcron&cronid=90
Referrer : http://..../cronadmin.php?do=runcron&cronid=90