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.

[sweetpotato]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

For now, CMS posts are not parsed. I may consider implementing this feature, if you are not the only one asking for it

I also vote for CMS post. Thank you for the nice mod. Now find the way to solve database error.

[der_darkon]

Thanks for this great AddOn, and i also vote for including the CMS

[yahooooh]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

Watermarking is beyond the idea of this product.

I feel it's also a bit unethical to sign images as if they were yours, when they have been taken from an external site, instead. With adding watermarking, I would need to add special policies to my software in order to ensure that copyright infringement wouldn't harm me, in case you get sued. Depending on the laws in the country of the persuer, the software producer may have responsibilities regarding copyright infringements.

not all watermark will be illegal , on my side i will use watermark with :
hosted by mysite.com
that is it
so it depend on how is the jpg wich used in watermark not the software

[Dr.osamA]

Thank you for update

but i have Database error

PHP Code:

Invalid SQL:

                SELECT
                    fd.thumbnail_dateline, fd.filesize, IF(fd.thumbnail_filesize > 0, 1, 0) AS hasthumbnail, fd.thumbnail_filesize,
                    a.dateline, a.state, a.attachmentid, a.counter, a.contentid, a.filename, a.userid, a.settings, a.displayorder,
                    at.contenttypes
                FROM attachment AS a
                INNER JOIN filedata AS fd ON (fd.filedataid = a.filedataid)
                LEFT JOIN attachmenttype AS at ON (at.extension = fd.extension)
                WHERE
                    a.contentid IN (81195,81203,81286,81287,81289,81290,82837)
                        AND
                    a.contenttypeid = 1
            
ORDER BY a.contentid, a.displayorder;

MySQL Error   : Unknown column 'fd.thumbnail_filesize' in 'field list'
Error Number  : 1054
Request Date  : Friday, April 1st 2011 @ 04:55:45 PM
Error Date    : Friday, April 1st 2011 @ 04:55:45 PM
Script        : http://www.alra7ba.info/vb/showthread.php?t=12925&p=81287&viewfull=1&langid=1
Referrer      : 


any help plzzz

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Dr.osamA

Thank you for update

but i have Database error

PHP Code:

Invalid SQL:

                SELECT
                    fd.thumbnail_dateline, fd.filesize, IF(fd.thumbnail_filesize > 0, 1, 0) AS hasthumbnail, fd.thumbnail_filesize,
                    a.dateline, a.state, a.attachmentid, a.counter, a.contentid, a.filename, a.userid, a.settings, a.displayorder,
                    at.contenttypes
                FROM attachment AS a
                INNER JOIN filedata AS fd ON (fd.filedataid = a.filedataid)
                LEFT JOIN attachmenttype AS at ON (at.extension = fd.extension)
                WHERE
                    a.contentid IN (81195,81203,81286,81287,81289,81290,82837)
                        AND
                    a.contenttypeid = 1
            
ORDER BY a.contentid, a.displayorder;

MySQL Error   : Unknown column 'fd.thumbnail_filesize' in 'field list'
Error Number  : 1054
Request Date  : Friday, April 1st 2011 @ 04:55:45 PM
Error Date    : Friday, April 1st 2011 @ 04:55:45 PM
Script        : http://www.alra7ba.info/vb/showthread.php?t=12925&p=81287&viewfull=1&langid=1
Referrer      : 


any help plzzz

Sorry, but this error does not come from my plugin. I don't use vbulletin attachments, but a completely different table (iei_img) for filename storage.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by yahooooh

not all watermark will be illegal , on my side i will use watermark with :
hosted by mysite.com
that is it
so it depend on how is the jpg wich used in watermark not the software

I do understand your concerns, but legal watermarking or not, I would have to protect myself and I don't like it

[Dr.osamA]

this erorr shows after i upgrade

mybe not from your plugin but mybe yes i dont know how that hapend or mybe an conflicted with other plugin
anyways thank you bro

[mescalin]

very very good idea. thank you for sharing this mod!

[kether1]

Did you decide if you would make this work for the CMS as well? Thanks!

kether

[giaguaro]

i imported my vbulletin from a old Snitz forum which had a different tag for image.
Would this product scan also those images?
All images link can be scanned?
And what about the absolute path images files such as ../public/data/user/image.jpg ?
Will this be scanned and substituted by a valid link? (they are no more valid link because the path is changed or vb doesnt recognize them)