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.

[mastershady]

it is around now 3 days ... the problem it replaced a regular text with the error Image?!!!!!!!
there is a data in the table ... as you can see in the attachment ... screen shoot ...
are you sure that i have to write the img in the tag field in the hack options ... or to replace it with [IMG] ?! ...

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by mastershady

it is around now 3 days ... the problem it replaced a regular text with the error Image?!!!!!!!
there is a data in the table ... as you can see in the attachment ... screen shoot ...
are you sure that i have to write the img in the tag field in the hack options ... or to replace it with [IMG] ?! ...

If you have had text between img tags, it takes it as an URL. This text will then fail and eventually a missing image replacement is inserted. There is not a lot I can do. Testing for a piece of text if it eventually is an URL or not, is beyond the idea of a simple product.

Text in place of URL's can come from bad formatting or from using arbitrary tags at your choice. And it reminds me that eventually I'll fall back to the easy and simple version, because I feel that a lot of options and the warnings I gave (to satisfy a few users) are simply too much for a normal forum and source of a lot of questions and additional problems I am really not happy to follow up.

The point is: it is easy to use as long as you understand what the options do. From the moment you change options, I must assume you know what they mean. However, this is not always the case, because each software has options that have to be changed in order to get it working.

From what I see in the screenshot, the product works, but it may not be able to fix problems with your posts.

[amin]

I tried to install it but it takes for ever processing (hung page)!!!

I went back to the plugins page and I found it installed!

I got question

how I can put the "Imported Images Folder" (chmod 777) external to another domain for security issue? If that will take time, is having the folder at the same host domain secure for the forum?

Thank you

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by amin

I tried to install it but it takes for ever processing (hung page)!!!

I went back to the plugins page and I found it installed!

I got question

how I can put the "Imported Images Folder" (chmod 777) external to another domain for security issue? If that will take time, is having the folder at the same host domain secure for the forum?

Thank you

1) If the installation hangs, maybe it is the best to reinstall. There is nothing i can do, presumably you are on a busy server.
2) At the moment you can only import images to the forum. I am thinking about some sort of exportation, though, probably with FTP.

[yahooooh]

i want this option:
adding thread url as link for image
when image hosted and show through [img]
on it

i need to add my thread url also as [url]
i do not allowed img url for other sites and i want to replace images also with url for thread that show this images , this perfect to make people also do not copy the thread to other froums and even they do , the links will be to the origin thread

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by yahooooh

i want this option:
adding thread url as link for image
when image hosted and show through [img]
on it

i need to add my thread url also as [url]
i do not allowed img url for other sites and i want to replace images also with url for thread that show this images , this perfect to make people also do not copy the thread to other froums and even they do , the links will be to the origin thread

Could you please make examples? I'm not sure what you want to have added.

[BadGuy]

Hi

Sometime I can see it in database in the same ID numbers for days .

Like today inside iei_img table the last id is 131072

its like this from 2 days

the command work every 3 hrs .

also if I run it manually , the next page I got is this :

vB4 Import External Images

that mean is not working

becuase when I see DONE that mean its working fine

some time I see it like this :

vB4 Import External Images 
Done

So the problem is

Some time works and some times not auto and manually .

[BadGuy]

Any update ?

[BadGuy]

Problem fixed

Waiting to add CMS to the system .

[TundraSoul]

It worked great for 24 hours, then stopped for no apparent reason.

I tried to run it manually, but got the dreaded error:

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.3:

Invalid SQL:
INSERT IGNORE INTO iei_img (
                        oldurl, 
                        newurl
                    ) VALUES (
                        'http://www.seven-o-heaven.com/resources/7OHsq700/Seven%20O%20Heaven%20sq700%20055%20North%20Coast%20Journal%20Humboldt%20County.jpg', 
                        'http://www......./images/extras/not-available.gif'
                    );

MySQL Error   : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number  : 2006
Request Date  : Sunday, May 22nd 2011 @ 04:33:53 PM
Error Date    : Sunday, May 22nd 2011 @ 04:35:00 PM
Script        : http://www...../admincp/cronadmin.php?do=runcron&cronid=76
Referrer      : http://www....../admincp/cronadmin.php?do=modify
IP Address    : ****
Username      : Me
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

It has managed to import at least two months worth of images (so far).

It looks like it timed out trying to grab that last image.

Any suggestions?