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From the creators of French and Toast comes a sweet and sticky enchanement to the New York Times best-seller: AME - Auto Media Embedding

AME 2.0 - The Embedder Strikes Back!

AME has won Mod of the Month for Spetember 08. Thanks!

Note that 2.5 Gold has been released. Click Here.

Discussions for AME 2.5 RC 1 start here

AME 2.0 is the next version of the "Mod of the Month" winning media embedder that:

• Allows user to simply 'paste' in a URL (i.e. a youtube link) without needing to know any special tags. However instead of displaying just the URL, it will show the media within the post
• is lightweight as it does all of her chores without the overhead of having 1 bbcode per pattern or trying to parse a post every single time it gets displayed with a bunch of patterns. AME radically reduces overhead and speeds up processing. The only time ame will kick in is after creating a new post or after editing an existing one (or if an ame tag is found)
• is extensible. She allows you to add, edit, delete, import and export patterns. That way you can decide which services to support, how they should look and then share them with others! At time of typing this, there are over 150 media sites that have been contributed by vBulletin.org members
• can extract the title (requires your server to allow url wrappers with fetch_contents)
• can extract embed code from sites whose URLs do not contain sufficient information to embed the video
• can rebuild your old posts to convert your 'other' mediaish tags into URL tags.
• can rebuild your old posts, blogs, comments, visitor and social group messages to convert URL tags into ame tags where needed
• can convert her codes BACK to url codes so you're not stuffed with a bunch of dead tags if you uninstall!
• won't uglify your site by having videos appear in quotes, php, code or html blocks (blech!)
• can be globally disabled
• can be excluded from forums
• can exclude usergroups
• can be toggled on/off per post, blog, comment, visitor and social group message
• would cook dinner for you if she had arms
• can wrap the output in a 'container' with original URL
• has a super comprehensive admincp help system. Yes, I actually took the bloody time to add all the info you need into vB's admincp help system. If you ask a silly question in this thread that is addressed in the help system, you will be taunted.
• is fully phrased
• has hooks around integral operations so you can extend it
• Supports embedding in vbBlog, Visitor Messages and Social Groups.
• Can be disabled in one or more of the following sections: Posts, vbBlog, Visitor Messages and/or Social Groups

Apart from the additional areas of support around vbBlog, Visitor Messages and Social Groups, little has changed about AME since version 1.0 released over a year ago. I cleaned up a few minor bugs, trimmed and updated the default definitions.

Which sites are supported?

At time of counting this, there are about 170 sites supported. But I have only included a few common standards as default (yahoo, youtube, myspace, google and Amazon). Why only these? AME was designed with its own import and export system that enables users to create or modify definitions and share them with the community. This keeps the system lightweight, customisable and saves us all from having to upgrade every time a media site changes their URL structure or if I add another site.

Check out the 'add ons' section of this post below to see availible add-ons.



Installation/Upgrade

• Upload the contents of the forums folder into your forums directory and import the product-ame.xml file into your product manager (if upgrading, choose 'yes' to overwrite previous installation).
• After installation, make sure that the system is on (admincp->AME CP->Settings)
• Then you may want to try to rebuild old URLs via the tools option.

Big thanks goes out to all those in the community that have supported this mod. Especially Digital Jedi Who has created about 155 definitions for this system alone!

Change Log


2.0.2 - fixed added slashes in quote blocks (DoH!), vm advanced error and incrimented product version. You need to replace include/ame_bb_code.php and re-import the product-ame.xml to upgrade
2.0.1 - fixed missing backslashes in code blocks

2.5 Pre-Release information

Attached to this post is pre-release of version 2.5

2.5 is a pretty major upgrade from the 2.0 series and adds the following functionality to 2.0:

• New in Beta 3 - Validation ability. This will help prevent media being embedded that can not be embedded (i.e. youtube videos that the author has stipulated can not be shown off of youtube). This option requires the extraction option to be turned on and a valid validation regexp. I have included one in the default youtube version. When a video on you tube gets embedded, but the author doesnt allow embedding, a link (with icon) is shown instead.
• Ability to prevent non authorised usergroups from viewing (see Readme file in zip for more info)
• Usergroup permissions (edit usergroup to adjust edit/view permissions)
• Template driven system - uses templates now instead of 1 master replacement (see Readme file in zip for more info)
• Signatures supported
• Different sizes and template configurations for each supported zone (posts, blogs, groups, visitor messages and signatures)
• A couple new hooks (Mainly to support a future add on for AME media in profiles)
• Notfication system (similar to vB's to check for errors)
• Definition keys for easier updating of definitions and to use in templates
• File caching system which radically reduces processing
• And more that I cant think of off the top of my head!

Note that while previous definitions will work with the new system, they will not be sizeable by zone. Since DJ helped with the private beta testing, I am sure he will be releasing 2.5 versions of his definitions soon.

Please note that 2.5 is a pre-release so there will be issues. If you want more stability, use 2.x until this version becomes gold FWIW: The only items currently outstanding are to add some missing admincp help. The rest is working as intended as far as I can tell

nJoy

[The Geek]

Thanks Road, that helps. Should be sorted for next 2.5 beta (which will be out in the next couple of days).

Directprint. Is this 2.0.2 or the 2.5 beta? Also can you check your apache error log?

[aztecboi2003]

My Break and daily motion are not working. I have just the white boxes where they should be. I'm using 2.0.2

[directprint]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Thanks Road, that helps. Should be sorted for next 2.5 beta (which will be out in the next couple of days).

Directprint. Is this 2.0.2 or the 2.5 beta? Also can you check your apache error log?

Was running the old version on 3.6 even after upgrade to 3.7.3, then decided it was time to upgrade to 2.0.2, didn't want to try the beta in case it broke things. I am running on a IIS server.
Tried the beta as well, it removed the code I am seeing in ACP, but when trying to rebuild everything the page just goes blank and doe's nothing.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by aztecboi2003

My Break and daily motion are not working. I have just the white boxes where they should be. I'm using 2.0.2

If those are add-on definitions, give the author a shout. Since version 2, ame hasnt supported daily motion or break as those are supported by add on authors.

Originally Posted by directprint

Was running the old version on 3.6 even after upgrade to 3.7.3, then decided it was time to upgrade to 2.0.2, didn't want to try the beta in case it broke things. I am running on a IIS server.
Tried the beta as well, it removed the code I am seeing in ACP, but when trying to rebuild everything the page just goes blank and doe's nothing.

Thanks for this. Sounds like the problem with the version 2 was that a php tag (Around line 80) was just <? but it should have been <?php as some installations are touchy about this.
The problem with the rebuild in the beta was reported yesterday and I am working on the solution which should be availible over the next couple of days (when I get back home)

Thanks!

[directprint]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Thanks for this. Sounds like the problem with the version 2 was that a php tag (Around line 80) was just <? but it should have been <?php as some installations are touchy about this

I am looking for this error in the php file, which one is it?

[directprint]

Found it, but still doesn't work for me, somethings not right somewhere. So I can't event get 2.0.2 to work.

[The Geek]

in version 2.0.2 in admincp/automediaembed_admin.php on line 82, is this tag:

PHP Code:

<?

Some server configurations require:

PHP Code:

<?php

If that change isn't made and your server requires it, it will usually just spit out PHP code when you browse to the ame admin page. Making the change fixes it. This change was made in the current 2.5 beta, hence the reason you could use the ame admincp in 2.5. The only problem I am currently aware of in the current 2.5 beta is rebuilding only seems to work on the first page. As I said in a previous post, this should be rectified in the next couple days when I get home.

Anyhoo. Hope this helps!

[directprint]

I made that change an uploaded the file, no longer showed the code, but it didn't rebuild posts. Also when I enable the product I get blank page when using post reply.

[directprint]

This is the error from rebuild posts via ACP.

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in [path]\admincp\automediaembed_admin.php on line 725

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'C:\Domains\website.com.au\wwwroot\forum/includes/ame_bbcode.php' (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in C:\Domains\website.com.au\wwwroot\forum\admincp\au tomediaembed_admin.php on line 725

This is the error if I post reply in a thead...

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in [path]\newreply.php(742) : eval()'d code on line 1

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'C:\Domains\website.com.au\wwwroot\forum/includes/ame_bbcode.php' (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in C:\Domains\website.com.au\wwwroot\forum\newreply.p hp(742) : eval()'d code on line 1

[The Geek]

Check permissions on includes/ame_bbcode.php as the php process doesnt appear to have rights to run that file.