[The Chief]

this looks amazing, good work!!

[Eagle Creek]

Sounds great!

But isn't this a great increase of your bandwith? I asked my members to user sites like imageshack to upload their pictures.
When I'm going to cache it all, they can just upload it as an attachment. Can't they?

[hotma1l]

What If i have an upload script for members, So they can upload their images and files, when they upload they get the link, then they will post the new topic, and the images are already on my server,it be uploaded again to the cache image ,,

So is there is away to exclude links for example any images that have been uploaded to http://up.domain.com/uploads/ should be excluded,

if there is an option in the admin control page to exclude links that would be great.

anyway thanks for the great work

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by Eagle Creek

Sounds great!

But isn't this a great increase of your bandwith? I asked my members to user sites like imageshack to upload their pictures.
When I'm going to cache it all, they can just upload it as an attachment. Can't they?

It increases the bandwidth quite a lot, and members can make attachments.

However, over the years, we experienced that most forum members don't like attachments, and prefer to insert the pictures in their messages as required. Not much an issue for just one image, but quite some if you have to tell about mathematic, scientific or medical research. And specifically in these areas a missing image source may void the whole discussion.

[KoC]

The New Version is 3.6.0

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by hotma1l

What If i have an upload script for members, So they can upload their images and files, when they upload they get the link, then they will post the new topic, and the images are already on my server,it be uploaded again to the cache image ,,

So is there is away to exclude links for example any images that have been uploaded to http://up.domain.com/uploads/ should be excluded,

if there is an option in the admin control page to exclude links that would be great.

anyway thanks for the great work

The script is intended to use where other scripts aren't available, or image sources are too slow, as most of the free image hosting sites.

Loading images from the own site has been always the best solution, although it has a cost: bandwidth and web space.

[kether1]

This looks great! I wonder if it will work with the Lightbox mod? I was thinking of installing that mod and using thumbnails on my forum. Would there be a conflict with 'Image Cache'? I am guessing no, but let me know if you think their might be.

Thanks so much.

Kether

[Cole2026]

Originally Posted by kether1

This looks great! I wonder if it will work with the Lightbox mod? I was thinking of installing that mod and using thumbnails on my forum. Would there be a conflict with 'Image Cache'? I am guessing no, but let me know if you think their might be.

Thanks so much.

Kether

It will not.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by kether1

This looks great! I wonder if it will work with the Lightbox mod? I was thinking of installing that mod and using thumbnails on my forum. Would there be a conflict with 'Image Cache'? I am guessing no, but let me know if you think their might be.

Thanks so much.

Kether

I don't have any experience with the Lightbox mod. However I would assume it would not conflict, since the Image Cache catches the image contents and redirects the URL's to the local server. So even if there is another plugin or modification to elaborate further (like vBulletin does itself, after caching), there should be really no problem.

[gamebrink]

I love you.

Would you consider adding an option that will rezise the image in the post and link it to the full size image?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by gamebrink

I love you.

Would you consider adding an option that will rezise the image in the post and link it to the full size image?

You mean thumbnailing?

I've been thinking about it, actually it isn't that big job, but it's also a question of reputation; just 5 installs mean, it isn't that great plugin and needed only from a few forum holders, of course, the quality-over-quantity-oriented ones

I think if this plugin becomes more widely used, it also would become standard part of vBulletin itself, since it would be only a natural evolution of the actual attachments - dynamically attached items.

It is quite some time people are asking this feature at the official boards and sooner or later it will happen - only a question of time, and as far as I remember, was already working in some of the early beta versions of 3.0.x.

So generally spoken I don't mind to see deeper into the problem but will also wait a little, to see if this pugin becomes more used after the summer holidays

[ChurchMedia]

Could this be made to work in the user's signatures also? I have a lot of members putting userbars (www.userbars.com) in their sig. The problem is, when userbars.com goes down it slows my pages down. I'd love to be able to cache those userbars...

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by ChurchMedia

Could this be made to work in the user's signatures also? I have a lot of members putting userbars (www.userbars.com) in their sig. The problem is, when userbars.com goes down it slows my pages down. I'd love to be able to cache those userbars...

vBulletin 3.6.0 allows to save the signature picture as long as it is only one. I will think about it

[ChurchMedia]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

vBulletin 3.6.0 allows to save the signature picture as long as it is only one. I will think about it

These are multiple images that would need to be cached. I'm not ready to upgrade to 3.6 until more hacks have been ported.

I'm willing to pay for the plug-in.