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.

[addamroy]

Thanks for the reply. Quick clarification though,

Originally Posted by y2ksw

also filtered against embedded scripts and other strange things.

What do you mean by that?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by addamroy

Thanks for the reply. Quick clarification though,



What do you mean by that?

worms

[addamroy]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

worms

Good because I hate worms.

[mservis]

Hello it's me not delete the images downloaded by the script, both the images and subdirectories marked out apache user and owner.

So do not let me change anything, or delete, or change attributes.

is there any solution?

[akxt660]

Hi!

This is an excellent product, thank you for offering us.

When this product will allow the user to switch between "imported images" and return to the "original links"? This is very important as it would be possible to save the images on the server and return to the external reference mode to save bandwidth and ensure the images for the future. Also, if there are problems with the operation or server, it would be possible to return to the original mode.

It would be important to allow: when return to the "imported images" mode, they are not reprocessed the rescue of those who are already on the server, only those that have not yet been redeemed (new links only and reactivate the internal reference).

I believe that after this update , this product would be perfectly safe and can even be used natively in vbulletin system.

Thank You!

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by akxt660

Hi!

This is an excellent product, thank you for offering us.

When this product will allow the user to switch between "imported images" and return to the "original links"? This is very important as it would be possible to save the images on the server and return to the external reference mode to save bandwidth and ensure the images for the future. Also, if there are problems with the operation or server, it would be possible to return to the original mode.

It would be important to allow: when return to the "imported images" mode, they are not reprocessed the rescue of those who are already on the server, only those that have not yet been redeemed (new links only and reactivate the internal reference).

I believe that after this update , this product would be perfectly safe and can even be used natively in vbulletin system.

Thank You!

I do understand what you want, but it is not intended to reverse the process of imported images.

Normally, you would use this plugin to ensure to get all the images users have simply pasted and you will know beforehand the cost of the operation: bandwidth and disk space.

On very large sites (1.000+ active users), this will be about 1 GB/month or 1000 images.

[mservis]

No solution ?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=624

greetings

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by mservis

Hello it's me not delete the images downloaded by the script, both the images and subdirectories marked out apache user and owner.

So do not let me change anything, or delete, or change attributes.

is there any solution?

There is nothing we can do about it.

This happens if the server process has different access rights than your FTP access, and must be fixed by your provider.

[adwade]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

I installed this on a VB 3.8 test forum and it appears to be working well. :up:

Originally Posted by y2ksw

There should be no conflict at all, since it uses a different table and an additional field to distinguish parsed posts from new or modified ones. Just disable the 3.x one and install this ... you are ready to go. Please don't forget to enable the product once you have chmodded the imported file folder and setup the options, since it installs disabled.

I disabled my installed 3.x version (i.e. Image Cache v1.0.2.0), uploaded the new cron job, created a forum/images/imported directory, imported the product-iei4.xml (v1.0.2) file per the instructions. After toggling the Always Convert Images to Yes, I then enabled the product on vB3.8

I next edited and approved a moderated thread, after adding an external image to it and the image in the thread was subsequently processed correctly. However the MOD seems to have created some month subfolders (i.e. 03, 05, etc) that appear empty.

Q. I assume the MOD is working it's way through my oldest threads, but was just curious as to why some subfolders created have no contents?

[y2ksw]

R. In a few rare cases the procedure may not be able to terminate the import process timely, or encounter another error, and will leave then an empty folder. If you care about those, from the linux system crontab you may issue the following command once a month:

find /your/import/folder/ -type d -empty -delete

Please double-check the folder name