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]

Your database connection timed out before the php script. This never should happen, though, and is a general problem to your forums.

The connection timeout of your database needs to be the same or larger than the PHP script timeout.

Normally this error appears when a query is too long, but in this case I truly believe it's the query timeout

[TundraSoul]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

Your database connection timed out before the php script. This never should happen, though, and is a general problem to your forums.

The connection timeout of your database needs to be the same or larger than the PHP script timeout.

Normally this error appears when a query is too long, but in this case I truly believe it's the query timeout

Thanks, when I went looking I discovered that too and made the correction. Now it's purring along again with several gigs of images to process.

[sticky]

This modification has been working beautifully for me and has become an essential part of my forum.

Unfortunately, for whatever reason, it has stopped, yet the cron job remains there.

Any idea what could cause this? I have been having cron database errors but cronimage is in place and other cron jobs are working.

I just can't figure out the problem.

[BirdOPrey5]

Is there an exceptionally large image it may be getting stuck on?

[sticky]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Is there an exceptionally large image it may be getting stuck on?

I don't think so and it has imported some huge ones before.

My recent posts widget stopped populating as well so I'm pulling my hair out trying to fix this.

[sticky]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Is there an exceptionally large image it may be getting stuck on?

You know what? That was it I believe. I removed a 3 meg image from being imported and as well as emptied the table and now it works.

[y2ksw]

Sounds like space or memory limits to me ...

[Baitona]

Hi,

It is working fine and i am happy with it, but there is something strange.
After few months i have discovered that imprted images are completely deleted from the imported folder. in some cases the whole month folder is deleted.. :s
i am the only root on the server, i didnot delete any thing, any idea?

[y2ksw]

There is no unlink (file delete) in this script.

Maybe you have a service which cleans up unknown vbulletin files?

[Baitona]

thanks

I am really lost of and lot of members are complaining losing their images,
the whole monthly folders are delted too not only files ....

okay what is the best way to move the imparted folder outside of the vbulletin directory?

right now it is in the basic format
images/imported -------as a result---------> domain.com/vb/images/imported

can i do it
../imported ------as a result--------> domain.com/imported