Question Postimage pics to local storage ?

hi, i am completely new to Joomla/Kunena and have a question on images stored on Postimage.org.

Migrating from a provider and limited diskspace to one that offers plenty diskspace.
The limited diskspace situation led to the choice to host pics on Postimage.org.
The risk here is that when Postimage quits, or for some other reason the images are lost,
the forum loses all images.

I see this too often :



Now that we have plenty space i am looking to download all pics to local storage, and replace all links to these Postimage pics with links to the downloaded ones on local storage.

Is there a way to do so using a script, plugin or some other method ?

Your help is appreciated !

It is possible to "hotlink" images—images stored on other sites (e.g. postimage.org)—in Kunena. You should also remember that "hotlinking" images may be illegal in some parts of the world.

sozzled wrote: It is possible to "hotlink" images—images stored on other sites (e.g. postimage.org)—in Kunena. You should also remember that "hotlinking" images may be illegal in some parts of the world.

Thank you, hotlinking is what has been used here for a long time.
Postimage is intended specifically for that purpose.

Source : About Postimage.org

Postimage.org was founded in 2004 to provide forums with an easy way to upload images for free. Postimage is a very simple, fast, reliable free image host. It's perfect for linking to auctions, message boards, blogs, and other websites.

The worry i have, is that if Postimage stops - my forum loses all images in all threads.

What i am looking for, is an automated way of

- checking all messages in the forum for the presence of a Postimage link
- download this picture to local storage,
- replace the Postimage link with one to the downloaded picture.

Effectively eliminating all hotlinks this way and not have to rely on a Postimage server for all pics in my forum.

Would you have knowledge of a SQL script, plugin or other method to accomplish this ?

sozzled wrote: It is possible to "hotlink" images—images stored on other sites (e.g. postimage.org)—in Kunena. You should also remember that "hotlinking" images may be illegal in some parts of the world.

For those Kunena software users affected by such lawgiving, a module to do just this would be a valuable cleanup tool.
Even more if it could be scheduled. If it does not exist maybe this qualifies for a feature request

reefer wrote: The worry I have, is that if Postimage stops - my forum loses all images in all threads.

Yes, that's what will happen and—as you stated at the beginning—you were aware of the calculcated risks in the first place.

There is no existing "script" (as you called it) to locate all occurrences of "postimage.org" embedded within the image tags of your forum messages but you could write an SQL query to search the _kunena_messages_text table, something like: This isn't the exact syntax; it's just to give you an idea of what you would need to write.

sozzled wrote: Yes, that's what will happen and—as you stated at the beginning—you were aware of the calculcated risks in the first place.

I was aware of the risk - it was not my decision.. but, as is often the case in IT, i inherited this and am looking to solve it.
Thank you for your replies, you're the only one that responded out of 16K viewers.

Still hoping someone has a solution !

reefer wrote: Still hoping someone has a solution !

I posted [part of] the solution in my previous message

yes, that's a very minimal piece of info, it does not help me.
As i said, i am completely new to this.
And i have read the sticky "How to Destroy your forum data"


If you have any info that helps me further i appreciate it, otherwise
i thank you and let's give the floor to contributors that do ?

reefer wrote: yes, that's a very minimal piece of info

Actually, if you know anything about SQL, I gave you the whole solution.

reefer wrote: If you have any info that helps me further i appreciate it

The way I see it, you have three options:

1) Take a crash course in SQL (using a tool like phpMyAdmin) or figure out your own solution;

2) Wait, hope and pray (or beg) that someone else will provide you with a different solution to the one I have already given you; or

3) Engage a professional to give you exactly what you need to pinpoint the messages that contain links to Postimage and get the matter solved within an hour.

Good luck with whatever choice you settle with.

sozzled wrote: Actually, if you know anything about SQL, I gave you the whole solution.

nope, you offered no solution, not even close.

You offered the general syntax for a SQL command to query if any postimage links are present.
Not an option to downoad and store pics locally, NOT a way to replace the URL's.

thanks for your reaction, but unless you have something solid to offer i'd rather you not pollute this topic this way.