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]

By setting iei_parsed to 0 the cronjob will reprocess the records.

[majjed2008]

Hello

Thank you for this products i like it .
regarding resizing it is default 0 , what is it Cm or PX or what exactly so i can use it in correct way

thank you

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by majjed2008

Hello

Thank you for this products i like it .
regarding resizing it is default 0 , what is it Cm or PX or what exactly so i can use it in correct way

thank you

px.

[Bob_R]

What I hate about this mod is that you cannot hotlink images.

My server people have tried (thru cPanel) and it appears it's because of this mod.

Does anyone have any comments on this?

Thanks!

EDIT: FYI - I have vBSEO installed

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Bob_R

What I hate about this mod is that you cannot hotlink images.

My server people have tried (thru cPanel) and it appears it's because of this mod.

Does anyone have any comments on this?

Thanks!

EDIT: FYI - I have vBSEO installed

In fact the idea is to move entirely hotlinked images to your server. If this isn't what you want, then it is not a mod you should use

[Bob_R]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

In fact the idea is to move entirely hotlinked images to your server. If this isn't what you want, then it is not a mod you should use

What are you talking about?

Is that supposed to represent an answer to my question?

I realize what this mod does. I use it and have for quite some time now.

So, it's YES you cannot hotlink images if you use this mod.

[RichieBoy67]

Originally Posted by Bob_R

What I hate about this mod is that you cannot hotlink images.

My server people have tried (thru cPanel) and it appears it's because of this mod.

Does anyone have any comments on this?

Thanks!

EDIT: FYI - I have vBSEO installed

I'm a little confused as to what you mean here. Why are you going through cpanel to add links to your images?

Have you tried editing an individual post and creating the image link there?

[Bob_R]

Originally Posted by RichieBoy67

I'm a little confused as to what you mean here. Why are you going through cpanel to add links to your images?

Have you tried editing an individual post and creating the image link there?

No sir not image link, hotlink.

[RichieBoy67]

I understand what a hotlink is but why do you want to import the images that are served on another server and then hot link them? it sort of defeats the whole purpose of this mod unless you mean something different then what I understand hotlinking to be.

[Bob_R]

Originally Posted by RichieBoy67

I understand what a hotlink is but why do you want to import the images that are served on another server and then hot link them? it sort of defeats the whole purpose of this mod unless you mean something different then what I understand hotlinking to be.

I thought hotlinking said it all. I apologize. Maybe it's my bad. I'll explain what I'm talking about.

Someone links to a pic on my site to display it on their site. Instead of the pic they linked to they get this (see screenshot)