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 alhidaya

Hello,

Thanks for a great mod.

How do I add more tags into this mod ? Right now we can only use [img] tag. I do have :

[FLOAT=left] and [/FLOAT]
[FLOAT=right] and [/FLOAT]

on my forum to align images to the left or to the right of the post.

This is very IMPORTANT What should I do to install the images BB Code ?

For these tags there is no automatic solution. You will have to trasform these tags manually with the MySQL REPLACE function (backup first!!!), for example:

UPDATE post SET pagetext=REPLACE(pagetext, '[FLOAT=left]', '[IMG]')
UPDATE post SET pagetext=REPLACE(pagetext, '[/FLOAT]', '[/IMG]')

I reccomend not to use image modifications in vbulletin if you want to use this product.

To enable IMG you will have to change your vbulletin options at several places: show all options and search for IMG

[spencerp]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

Theorically it can be changed in order to download the source images and the thumbnails. However, each system has different ways and changes them from time to time, in order to avoid direct downloading. Since this is freeware and I have no income with it, nor are there enough customers for asking this feature, it is unlikely it will be ever implemented.

Similarily, the file server/gallery issue has been discussed before. If there was a consistent number of users requesting to move files to another server, I may look into moving files via FTP and/or PHP's fopen and updating queries and so stuff. But until now you are only about the third person asking for this feature. Instead, you may use fsftp for Linux, which transparently links another server to a symbolic link of your forum root subfolder of your choice. There may be other solutions too. I do not support any of those solutions

Basically, this is what I need though. The forums were started for when the members would go to some image hosting site like; imagevenue.com, imgbox.com, and so forth... Select and Copy the BBCode for thumbnails that link to full size images... and paste the codes into the forum threads/posts.

I'd love to be able to have this run, and automatically parse/convert all imagevenue.com and imgbox.com and etc BBCodes to default vbulletin ... or import them as attachments with thumbnails and full size images automatically. Is there anything for vbulletin (if not your plugin/modification maybe another one?) that can maybe do this? Thanks

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by spencerp

Basically, this is what I need though. The forums were started for when the members would go to some image hosting site like; imagevenue.com, imgbox.com, and so forth... Select and Copy the BBCode for thumbnails that link to full size images... and paste the codes into the forum threads/posts.

I'd love to be able to have this run, and automatically parse/convert all imagevenue.com and imgbox.com and etc BBCodes to default vbulletin ... or import them as attachments with thumbnails and full size images automatically. Is there anything for vbulletin (if not your plugin/modification maybe another one?) that can maybe do this? Thanks

The Linux File System FTP feature is called curlftpfs and I have briefly discussed it here. For making it work perfectly well, you will have to ask a top-techy, which may be able to tweak your system in a way that imported images are going somewhere else.

There is no inbuilt feature and software solutions would be far over the top of this, maybe any product

[spencerp]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

The Linux File System FTP feature is called curlftpfs and I have briefly discussed it here. For making it work perfectly well, you will have to ask a top-techy, which may be able to tweak your system in a way that imported images are going somewhere else.

There is no inbuilt feature and software solutions would be far over the top of this, maybe any product

ahhh okay... Hmm, maybe I'll get one of the support techs on live chat then. but stupid me, i ran that plugin and it started parsing/importing images from THIS MONTH.. cause i made it so they go into /attachments/2012/08/ ... and alot of images were going there... but when viewing threads.. it still showed or seemed to link to imagevenue.com anyway.. so i went and deleted the 2012/08 folders.. and now alot of the threads for this month aren't showing images at all. and plus it made the database HUGE... its like 78MB!!!

is there anyway to have this plugin import the images... but just have it to filesystem automatically? I didn't want to put all that load into database in first place. the disk space i need not worry about, its the database size that's issue. and now it's STILL 78MB.. >_<. and on top of it, alot of August's threads are image-less...

also... when viewing threads in advanced edit.. its like

[U R L="http://img156.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=79993_12708391_122_34lo.jpg"][I M G]http://footish.xxx/attachments/2012/08/376.jpg[/I MG ][/U RL ]

of course the attachments/2012/08/blahblah.jpg arent showing anything.. but still have the imagevenue.com thumbnail preview links.. is there to remove the external thumbnail preview links when parsing from get go? or.. have those imported too, not just the full image?

[y2ksw]

This plugin doesn't add size to your database. It imports external images to the local file system. But I understood you would like to keep the images elsewhere and for this reason there is the article about curlftpfs.

Only img tags are imported unless you add other tags (and you understand what the option does). There is no such thing as capturing wrapping images, too.

[Krusty1231]

I am confused. I can run it just fine, but it gives me this when I try to enable the cron job.

This scheduled task cannot be enabled. vB4 Import External Images, the product associated with this task, is currently disabled. It must be enabled before this task can be enabled.

What am I doing wrong? I can see the images being created in the /imported folder just fine.

It just will not enable the cron job for me.

[y2ksw]

Looks like the product is disabled

[Krusty1231]

LOL - so it is..... Doh!

Thanks for the hint! I feel retarded now!

[y2ksw]

welcome back from holidays!

[vvlo]

tnk u, but this mod for my forum not work : link