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.

[BadgerDog]

I've downloaded the mod and using y2ksw's "patch" recommendations in posts 13-16 to limit the testing to just a single post, in order to make sure it works on our site, I was about to take a "leap of faith" and install the XML, but I just had another thought ..

We use Sevenskin's Image Resizer for standard IMG files that are large. It does a great job resizing them in real time down to a more viewable (no overflow) image that can be clicked upon the show the full size image.

If we install this mod, will anything negative happen when interacting with this excellent mod and what pic will be stored internally, the resized screen pic or the full size one that is pointed to in the post's IMG code itself?

Thanks for any feedback ..

Regards,
Doug

[y2ksw]

Nothing special should happen ... The ImageResizer seems to replace only the image attributes, not the image itself.

[BirdOPrey5]

Damn... Apparently overriding my img bbcode kills my image resizer...

Back to the drawing board... I thinking a custom plugin that runs on postbit_display_complete that does a str_replace looking for www.juot.net and replaces it with the actual domain name they are using... that should solve my issues...

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

Nothing special should happen ... The ImageResizer seems to replace only the image attributes, not the image itself.

Thank you Sir..

I'll give it a run as soon as I have a stretch of free time to focus on not screwing it up. I did make the PHP file change that you mentioned, to just affect a single post, so I think that will mitigate any mess I make.

Regards,
Doug

ps: maybe I'll pop a Prozac before I run it anyway ..

[bada_bing]

Will this work with VB 3.8.x ?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by bada_bing

Will this work with VB 3.8.x ?

It works for me on 3.8.6.

[210665]

Hello

I have installed this product now and created the folder images / imported /
The folder I have assigned the following rights 777
Use System vBulletin 4.1.0 Patch Level 2

Unfortunately, this product does not work.

English translated by Google

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Hallo

Ich habe dieses Produkt jetzt installiert und den Ordner images/imported/ angelgt.
Dem Ordner habe ich folgende Rechte zugeordnet 777
Verwende System vBulletin 4.1.0 Patch Level 2

Nur leider arbeitet dieses Produkt nicht.

Englisch mit Google übersetzt

[vortodox]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

It is only for forum posts yet.

Thanks for answer, but is it possible to restrict ths addon just for some forums?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by 210665

Hello

I have installed this product now and created the folder images / imported /
The folder I have assigned the following rights 777
Use System vBulletin 4.1.0 Patch Level 2

Unfortunately, this product does not work.

English translated by Google

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hallo

Ich habe dieses Produkt jetzt installiert und den Ordner images/imported/ angelgt.
Dem Ordner habe ich folgende Rechte zugeordnet 777
Verwende System vBulletin 4.1.0 Patch Level 2

Nur leider arbeitet dieses Produkt nicht.

Englisch mit Google ?bersetzt

If it does not work at all, probably your server cannot use sockets, CURL or is locked out for retrieving web content by a firewall.

PS: Have you enabled the product after installing?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by vortodox

Thanks for answer, but is it possible to restrict ths addon just for some forums?

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.