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.

[dorans]

regards,
How to download the original image size, not thumbnails?
With postimage.org or other ...

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by dorans

regards,
How to download the original image size, not thumbnails?
With postimage.org or other ...

Normally, the images are imported in their original size. If you intended to download a different, attached image to a specific URL, this is not possible.

[dorans]

Postimage via script sends the thumbnail link.
IE download icon instead of the whole picture ... Or I something wrong?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by dorans

Postimage via script sends the thumbnail link.
IE download icon instead of the whole picture ... Or I something wrong?

The idea behind this plugin is to save the image of the URL the user has pasted into a post. Thus, if it is the thumbnail, the thumbnail is imported.

[dorans]

thank you,
I understand the function. The problem is for technical drawings. As thumbnails are useless.
Mod works completely correctly.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by dorans

thank you,
I understand the function. The problem is for technical drawings. As thumbnails are useless.
Mod works completely correctly.

If there are reproducible rules between thumbnails and the drawings, then you may eventually replace the thumbnail URL's before running this plugin's task.

[dorans]

Me again

After the import I have this link:

[URLl="http://postimg.org/image/txakyobrx/"][/URL]

How can I avoid this part? [URL = "http://postimg.org/image/txakyobrx/"] and [/ URL]
thanks,

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by dorans

Me again

After the import I have this link:

[URLl="http://postimg.org/image/txakyobrx/"][IMG]mysite.com/dddd/image/2014/11/108.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

How can I avoid this part? [URL = "http://postimg.org/image/txakyobrx/"] and [/ URL]
thanks,

You can't. This plugin does handles only image tags and ignores the rest. As the URL tag is surrounding the image, it is ignored. Eventually you may craft a special query which allows removing surrounding URL's, but this is far beyond of the scope here. (See MySQL REGEXP)

[dorans]

I assumed it.
The problem is that it remains a link to postimage. Gonna remove.
thanks,

[BadgerDog]

This is a great mod and it's been very useful to our forums over the past several years.. :up:

In fact, we sent y2ksw a large donation way back when to thank him for his work...

The only serious problem we've ever experienced is that nagging issue of handling a picture someone uploads that's too large for the mod to handle.

Refer to old posts 167 and 168 (and older) where we discussed it and "Bird of Prey" also helped with figuring out what could be done, to some degree.

Since there wasn't an obvious solution then, we simply got into the habit of manually running the mod every morning during maintenance routines, to make sure it completed and didn't get hung on any large pics members had uploaded.

Well, that worked fine for the last 24 months and ironically, we never had one hang, except for this morning. A member must have uploaded an 8Mb pic sometime yesterday and today when we manually ran and checked completion of the mod, it simply hung at the very start. We turned on the logging to see if we could figure out where it was hung, but there was no data there, so it must have been the very first pic it tried to import at some point.

So, we began the laborious task of going through hundreds of threads for the last day or so, trying to find one with an IMG pic that was too large for the mod to handle. After a few hours we found the 8 Megabyte sized pic, downloaded and resized it, then put it back.

We then re-ran the import mod and it worked fine, completing the import of this (now smaller) pic, as well as others that had been uploaded in the last 24 hours.

So, why am I posting?

Well, it was a real pain in the a$$ to have to manually sift through all those threads looking for a single pic that cause the import mod to hang and lock up. So, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas how we could automate a search for excessively large pics, so we could manually fix them and get y2ksw's mod going again?

I gather you can't catch large pics before downloading them into the site, so it appears we have to live with the "hanging" issue, but it would be great if we could somehow find the offending pic(s) easier when that happens.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks..

Regards,
Doug