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.

[BirdOPrey5]

It would use more of your own bandwidth but you stop "stealing" other people's bandwidth and you have total control over the images so if someone decides to delete or change them one day you still have them.

I know I have a user who posts a weather map graphic from time to time. It gets updated every few minutes, so if I do end up using this on my live forum I should remember to put whatever domain it's from on the ignore list else the image will never update.

[OldSchoolDSL]

Maybe I'm evil... But I'd rather eat someone else's bandwidth / server load time.

If I could find a cheap (yet fast) way of loading images on another server... I think I would.

[SoloX]

Not sure if this has been said before but if you are installing this mod, please be careful about copyrights. Inline image links *might* save you a court date but actually downloading and serving these from your server will def. get you in trouble.

google "righthaven lawsuits" and you will know why I am posting this caution.

[sticky]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

y2ksw, if you're taking feature requests, here is some code I made to keep the original file names...

1) It takes only the file name, not the path-
2) It strips all non alpha-numeric characters besides underscores
3) It sets a max length and truncates any characters over the max length
4) It still appends an integer number to the end so there will never be any file name conflicts.

I added 1 new function replacing iei_getfile_index with:

PHP Code:

//Custom Code To Save Filename
function iei_get_file_index_name(&$path, &$extension, $oldfilename)
{
   //Get only the file name (no directory info)
   $oldfilename = basename ($oldfilename, $extension);
   //Strip out non alpha-numeric characters
   $oldfilename = preg_replace("#[^A-Za-z0-9_]#", "", $oldfilename );
   //Set max file name length to 40 characters
   $oldfilename = substr($oldfilename, 0, 40);
   
   //Increment number if file exists
    for($i = 1;; $i++)
    {
        $filename = "$path/$oldfilename-$i.$extension";
        if(!file_exists($filename))
        {
            return $filename;
        }
    }
} 


And then the call to the function under the //Get File Index comment I changed it to:

PHP Code:

  $filename = iei_get_file_index_name($path, $extension, $value); 


And it's working great... brings in the files with their own (clean) names... In the off chance the file has the same name as another one, it increments the counter by 1 so they always save with a unique name.

Feel free to use some, all, or none of this as you see fit. :up:

Ok, I'm going to try to install is.

So iei_getfile_index I replace with all the code you posted?

As for the last part, sorry what am I replacing exactly? What is the call to function?

[vietfancy]

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 [IMGL] and [IMGR] on my forum to align images to the left or to the right of the post.

Thanks again for a great mod.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by SoloX

Not sure if this has been said before but if you are installing this mod, please be careful about copyrights. Inline image links *might* save you a court date but actually downloading and serving these from your server will def. get you in trouble.

google "righthaven lawsuits" and you will know why I am posting this caution.

Normally you would have a TOS where you don't assume any responsibility for pasted images by your users.

As for the copyright, you don't steal images by copying them into your site. Google Images would do a great damage to all the sites they copy images from, in order to show them to everybody, don't you agree? You steal them from the moment you are using them improperly. For this reason I am a bit concerned about importing images from CMS posts, since the authors are usually administrators and thus should not steal images from other sites to make their own site nice and interesting

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by vietfancy

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 [IMGL] and [IMGR] on my forum to align images to the left or to the right of the post.

Thanks again for a great mod.

It's a good moment to ask for new features, but I'm not sure if I implement them all

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by sticky

Ok, I'm going to try to install is.

So iei_getfile_index I replace with all the code you posted?

As for the last part, sorry what am I replacing exactly? What is the call to function?

You could replace the old function with mine, or you could keep the old function and just add my function to the code.

As for the "call to the function" it's the line directly under the comment
//Get File Index

Replace the line:

PHP Code:

  $filename = iei_get_file_index($path, $extension); 


With

PHP Code:

  $filename = iei_get_file_index_name($path, $extension, $value); 


Or better yet just comment out the first line and add the other one below it so you have the original code if you ever want to go back:

PHP Code:

  //$filename = iei_get_file_index($path, $extension); 
  $filename = iei_get_file_index_name($path, $extension, $value); 


[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

y2ksw, if you're taking feature requests, here is some code I made to keep the original file names...

I wanted to test your PHP version against just a specific thread to see how it worked, so I added something y2ksw showed me in a previous post to his code.

$SQL = "SELECT postid, " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post.dateline, pagetext, forumid
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post join " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread on (" . TABLE_PREFIX . "post.threadid = " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread.threadid)
WHERE iei_parsed = 0
AND threadid=28420
AND pagetext LIKE '%[/IMG]%'
ORDER BY postid";

When I did that with your PHP file, I get an SQL error, while the same piece of code addition in y2ksw's code executed correctly ONLY against that thread ID?

I like the idea of keeping the original filenames (or a variant thereof) and thank you for showing us that method, but I wanted to ensure it would work cleanly on our site before I turned it ON live against our whole forum.

Ami I missing something? Sorry, I'm not a programmer ...

Regards,
Doug

[sticky]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

You could replace the old function with mine, or you could keep the old function and just add my function to the code.

As for the "call to the function" it's the line directly under the comment
//Get File Index

Replace the line:

PHP Code:

  $filename = iei_get_file_index($path, $extension); 


With

PHP Code:

  $filename = iei_get_file_index_name($path, $extension, $value); 


Or better yet just comment out the first line and add the other one below it so you have the original code if you ever want to go back:

PHP Code:

  //$filename = iei_get_file_index($path, $extension); 
  $filename = iei_get_file_index_name($path, $extension, $value); 


Working great, thank you!