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.

[fxdigi-cash]

look like there is some bug on vb.4.2.1. when the image imported locally from any post, a jpg file is saved where I indicated to save any image. However, the images have small sizes 1 Kb and when I preview them, they are all blank!!!

it was working very well on vb.4.2 pl3 , but now have this weird issue...

any idea how to get this resolved??

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by fxdigi-cash

look like there is some bug on vb.4.2.1. when the image imported locally from any post, a jpg file is saved where I indicated to save any image. However, the images have small sizes 1 Kb and when I preview them, they are all blank!!!

it was working very well on vb.4.2 pl3 , but now have this weird issue...

any idea how to get this resolved??

Please check the options. Most probably they got changed.

If this is not the problem, check the file permissions.

And, finally check that you actually can import images to your server. If you have moved to another place or the hosting provider has incidentally changed the server settings (yes, they do it always when you do some stuff, too ) it may happen you can't import images any more, and if the option says to replace invalid images, they are all small and "empty".

I have this plugin running on large forums and it is running flawlessly everywhere.

[fxdigi-cash]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

Please check the options. Most probably they got changed.

If this is not the problem, check the file permissions.

And, finally check that you actually can import images to your server. If you have moved to another place or the hosting provider has incidentally changed the server settings (yes, they do it always when you do some stuff, too ) it may happen you can't import images any more, and if the option says to replace invalid images, they are all small and "empty".

I have this plugin running on large forums and it is running flawlessly everywhere.

Thanks for the reply and feedback.

I'm using this version: 1.0.5.iei4

I will check the following and see what's going on:

1- mod options.
2- file permissions.
3- and whether I can import images to my server or not.

also I will check with my web host to see if there is any issue regarding importing images to the server or not.

Thanks, And be back to you with the feedback soon.



Update:
1- mod options."checked"
2- file permissions."checked"
3- and whether I can import images to my server or not. "checked"

everything seems to be fine now. images can be imported, but still some images show 1kb size which means not imported. possibly the rss feed I get images from doesn't allow image import.

I guess I'm fine with this if there is not other way around this. Thanks a lot

[behcet]

pc copy/paste import pls

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by behcet

pc copy/paste import pls

This is impossible unless your PC is mapped world-visible. For this feature you'll probably need a pretty complex javascript.

[m@hamad]

This hack is great! Thanks

This hack works on my friend site But it does not work for me .

Both sites are on a server .

[tommythejoat]

I am using this and it is working great, but I would like the imported images to be available to use like my attachment library. I can search the post table for "pagetext like replacement url," but that is very database intensive. It would be nice if you stored the postid along with the other data in iei_img.

If you do not want to be bothered with that, I might take a shot at doing it myself. I understand this is not as simple as it sounds because of the synchronization issues with the batch job out gathering via curl.

[Bob_R]

Can I change Always Convert Images from Yes to No after installation (installed over a year ago).

The animated gifs are saved to jpg and animation is lost.

[Bob_R]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Mine keeps gifs as gifs... always has.

How so?

I used to love this mod. Now, with what I've discovered (post above this one) I'm not so sure.

Waiting on word if I can change settings.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Bob_R

Can I change Always Convert Images from Yes to No after installation (installed over a year ago).

The animated gifs are saved to jpg and animation is lost.

Yes, any time.

However, converting images has several benefits, one of which is the removal of eventual malware. Since some file formats allow to hide scripts and thus run arbitrary code on the client browsers before viewing an image, the file conversion makes sure that such scripts are never executed, because such images are entirely removed.

Leaving the file format intact, you eventually do copy also malicious code, depending on how those images are crafted.

If you operate on a large site with a lot of users, you run better off with converting all images, because this way your site never falls into the category where it gets banned by spiders, namingly Google.