Version: 1.0.5, by y2ksw
Developer Last Online: Feb 2023
Category: Administrative and Maintenance Tools -
Version: 4.x.x
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Released: 11-06-2010
Last Update: 02-13-2011
Installs: 300
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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.
Perfect plugin and a great idea! This plugin can also have a cron to delee unused images anymore. In example it can run cron to check if there is a link to that pic in db and if not it deletes them. Its a great plugin.
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Originally Posted by BadgerDog
That would be a great add-on.... can anyone write something like that?
Regards,
Doug
I took note. This suggestion also contains the perfect solution
Conflict with Autolinker mod, which is doing something to filenames as it reads them in from server.
Your import mod is working just fine... great mod and in my opinion, one of the most useful I've ever installed for vBulletin ... glad I donated PayPal to you to say thanks ... love to see the auto cleanup of pics that aren't in database, if you get some time.
I'd donate again to add that capability, even as s separate cron job....
Hi i installed this addonon 15th and some of my images till that day have been parsed successfully but when i get back to my ftp i cant see any new image being parsed since that day. And there are many images that havent been parsed.
this is my site http://www.gsmforum.es/
Hi i installed this addonon 15th and some of my images till that day have been parsed successfully but when i get back to my ftp i cant see any new image being parsed since that day. And there are many images that havent been parsed.
this is my site http://www.gsmforum.es/
The images which can't be found are not imported. Some sites block hot-linking or have URL's which can't be read properly as an image and remain untouched.
However it sounds more like a permission issue. If you have for example cPanel, please check that there is no automatism such as changing rights to files and folders. Also, it is likely you have changed the permissions by coincidence
The images which can't be found are not imported. Some sites block hot-linking or have URL's which can't be read properly as an image and remain untouched.
However it sounds more like a permission issue. If you have for example cPanel, please check that there is no automatism such as changing rights to files and folders. Also, it is likely you have changed the permissions by coincidence
It only happens with one site that my rss feeds are importing. is there anyway to import those hot-linking ?
If i open the image in the browser i can see that image in my forum (but only in my pc & only on the same browser) i dont mind to import that image to my forum/host.
Tyvm for your reply really very usefull
At first i did thought it was permission issues so i checked with a different site and was working perfectly and ur mod too ^^ Good Job !
It only happens with one site that my rss feeds are importing. is there anyway to import those hot-linking ?
If i open the image in the browser i can see that image in my forum (but only in my pc & only on the same browser) i dont mind to import that image to my forum/host.
Tyvm for your reply really very usefull
At first i did thought it was permission issues so i checked with a different site and was working perfectly and ur mod too ^^ Good Job !
There is no way to predict how hot-linking is detected. The current system does a good job, but it can't try all possible ways, because it esentially doesn't know to which site it connects, and still, it can't guess which domain and/or page must be refferred in order to see the images.
Does the resize function in the mod force the creation of thumbnails in the normal vb manner ? If not is there anyway to create thumbnails and place them in the posts as the importation takes place ?
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... 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.
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