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.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by sticky

Good question, would like to know as well.

As far as I know, articles are not stored in the post table, thus the CMS remains untouched. However, if the articles are stored there, the changes apply.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by sticky

This seems to be causing a good amount of database errors.

If it does cause a lot of database errors (timeout, db "went away" errors), please reduce your maximum post count. The default value of 10 should be enough for most boards.

If you have an extremely short timeout on scripts, you will have to reduce this value even more.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Dr.osamA

thank you for your help

i have chmod 777 for folder and i had old version in my vb3.x.x and no new images

that main don't need more time for import images to my site only new posts and that not much

If you want to skip all old posts, you may run this query:

UPDATE post SET iei_parsed=1

This way, only new and edited posts are parsed.

If you decide later to reparse all old posts, too, just run

UPDATE post SET iei_parsed=0

which will restart parsing all over again.

[Dr.osamA]

thank you again sir

try it then inform you about results
BRB

[abunaji]

If a post is deleted from the forum, will it delete the images in that post automatically?
I think that is very important for there is no need to keep images from deleted posts .. they only eat up disk sapce.

Also, is there a feature to save the images on another server?
I don't have enough space on my vps , but I have plenty on another shared hosting.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by abunaji

If a post is deleted from the forum, will it delete the images in that post automatically?
I think that is very important for there is no need to keep images from deleted posts .. they only eat up disk sapce.

Also, is there a feature to save the images on another server?
I don't have enough space on my vps , but I have plenty on another shared hosting.

No images are deleted.

If you are on Linux and have direct access, you may define a symbolic link to another server. However, you also will need services, which transfers the requested data back and forth.

[sticky]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

If it does cause a lot of database errors (timeout, db "went away" errors), please reduce your maximum post count. The default value of 10 should be enough for most boards.

If you have an extremely short timeout on scripts, you will have to reduce this value even more.

I reduced the maximum post count and it worked great! Reduced the DB errors, thanks!

[sticky]

One thing I have noticed, it only replaced images in threads and not in the CMS even if the post is promoted. Any way to address this?

[dacho]

Thanks mate,
If I want to import the images to sub donain ?
like that : static.domain.com/imported

I change the "Imported Images Folder" to ../static.domain.com/imported
the setting of "Remove Invalid Images" on OFF

It does not work for me, it's replace the link of the image to "clear.gif" (Although marked him - not). And not import the file to Sub Domain

Do you have any ideas ?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by sticky

One thing I have noticed, it only replaced images in threads and not in the CMS even if the post is promoted. Any way to address this?

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