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 rgreene1971

Would it be possible to use this to import images from an old smf 2.0.2 forum? The old forum is still on my server at location www.mysite.com/forums with my new running vb4 forum at www.mysite.com/vbforum

This would be a great way to slowly import all my images from the old site

If the images are publically accessible it should work. Please try first with a test environment

[cylon1]

This plugin works very well, but it fails sometimes.

FOr example, importing images from facebook. Yo can have a try with the following image:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net...98486535_n.jpg


It only inserts the clear.gif image. No errors in the server logs, in the vbulletin logs...

ANy solution?

Thanks in advance

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by cylon1

This plugin works very well, but it fails sometimes.

FOr example, importing images from facebook. Yo can have a try with the following image:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net...98486535_n.jpg


It only inserts the clear.gif image. No errors in the server logs, in the vbulletin logs...

ANy solution?

Thanks in advance

Disable the option where to replace invalid images. Then you keep all of the images which for one reason or another don't import.

[Nirjonadda]

Originally Posted by mescalin

its me again..

in my forums some pics are replaced with wrong images that are allready in imported folder. Product does not import these images but replaces them with nonrelated existing pics.

i tried several different settings but couldnt prevent that behaviour. Any idea what can i do?

Ps its a rare behaviour. I have about 1,5m posts but it doesnt happen very often..

Its same problem for me ... any solution please?

[chimpmaster]

!http://website...photo1.jpg?w=768&h=1024 (defaults to image #1 in the directory)

!http://website...photo1.jpg (works)

Some sites add trailing info to the image for sizing. Can the program remove that extra info?

Installed on V 4.1.12 and working great. Any thoughts on adding this feature to external signature images? Thanks.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Nirjonadda

Its same problem for me ... any solution please?

I believe it's a DNS/server problem and thus there is no other solution than trying another service or not using the plugin.

The product currently works on several large sites with thousands of images imported each month and none of them had ever such a problem.

[nexxzus]

It runs on vbulletin 4.2?

[Gemma]

Originally Posted by nexxzus

It runs on vbulletin 4.2?

Yes

[Old-Git]

Tried in on VB4.2.0 PL 2 this evening and couldn't get it to work at all. The code seemed to run but the Cron job did not. I tried to run it manually and it just hung on a grey screen which said, on upper left corner, VB External Image Importer (or words to that effect). Turned on logging and there was nothing in the logs, tried again, same thing nothing in the logs. FTP to server and looked at the Images/imported folder and seen that it had created 2011 folder and two folders under that one named 01 and the other named 11. Nothing in either folder.

I uninstalled and re-installed, making sure to overwrite, and still the same problem. I tried to uninstall again and this time the uninstall routine hung on a grey screen. Disabled and tried to unisntall and still hung on the grey screen. Diasbled all plugins globally and tried to uninstall, still hung on grey screen. Disabled cron job and tried to unistall and still hung on grey screen. Re-enabled global plugins and then disabled all individual plugins and tried to uninstall. Still hung on grey screen. Finally, re-installed and overwrote (again) and immediately went to uninstall and finally removed it from site. It sounds lovely and now that I can choose which forums I want to include in the import process it would be brilliant if it would work for me.

Incidentally fopen on URL's is on and there's no firewall blocking downloads (I tried your test.php file for google from way back in the middle of this thread....yeah I read the whole thread looking for answers).

Thankfully I was running this on my test rig here in my office and not on my live server so I was'nt worried about all the issues. I'm off to bed now, it's 2:00 am here in the UK, and I'll have another run at this tomorrow.

Rgds

Pete

PS anyone have any success in running it on a 4.2.0 Pl2 install?

[Old-Git]

Has no-one go this working on 4.2.0 PL2? Are there any plans to release an upgrade for this hack?