Major Additions - AME 2.5 - Media Embedding for posts, sigs, vm's, groups and blogs

From the makers of the letters O and Yea comes the hottest 'must have mod' of the season: AME 2.5 - The Return of The Hot Mama.

Thanks everyone for making AME 2.5 Mod of the Month

AME is the multi award winning modification that smartly scans new and edited posts for URLs from a customisable variety of web sites (i.e. YouTube or Amazon or about 200 others). If it finds a match, AME will 'transform' the URL into inline embedded media without your users ever having to even think about it.

It was important for me to create a system that did not need updating (and subsequent reinstalling) every time one of the sites it supported decided to change the way it displayed its media (which is all the fricken time). Therefore I built a system in which the 'definitions' for each site could be imported, exported, tweaked and shared on a whim. This way, you only have to import the definitions that you want. It also allows the vB community to get creative and share definitions that I wouldn't of thought of!

Which sites are supported?

Included in the default installation is YouTube and Amazon. At time of posting this, I believe that there are over 180 sites supported that have been created by the vBulletin community. These range from sites that stream videos to Amazon referral links to locally hosted music and video files.

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

For a total list of features and an FAQ, see click here.
For a post on troubleshooting, click here.

Though not tested on any version of vBulletin lower than 3.7.4, in theory it should work on versions 3.5 and higher (just dont quote this bit!).

Big thanks goes out to all those in the community that have supported this mod. Especially Digital Jedi who gives great support on this mod and has created over 160 definitions for this system alone!


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.

Change Log

• 20/1/09 - Uploaded to vb.org
• 22/1/09 - v. 2.5.2. Adresses a couple minor issues and character sets
• 23/1/09 - v. 2.5.3 minor update: Fixed ksort error on import and nomedia display
• 3/2/09 - v. 2.5.4 minor update to address rare bug with some page titles
• 3/7/09 - v.2.5.5 minor updates to address rare bug editing media with brackets in name
• 9/12/09 - v.2.5.6 minor updates youtubes validation process, a ccurl bug and rebuild not using the date like a good girl

nJoy

[Gladhatter]

Remove the duplicate definition in AME definititons.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by ged

I got it (because youtube videos double on posts) but don't know how to solve. That's the problem.

You have Two YouTube definitions. You probably didn't delete the default YouTube definition before importing mine. If you want to keep my definition (which supports deep linking) delete the default definition (All my definitions have a sort order of 1.)

[ged]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

You have Two YouTube definitions. You probably didn't delete the default YouTube definition before importing mine. If you want to keep my definition (which supports deep linking) delete the default definition (All my definitions have a sort order of 1.)

This problem was on a pure AME installation, not with any plug-ins.

BTW, I removed default definitions and installed your pack. Nothing's changed. Everybody says "remove the double definition" but it doesn't help if you don't know how to do it.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by ged

This problem was on a pure AME installation, not with any plug-ins.

BTW, I removed default definitions and installed your pack. Nothing's changed. Everybody says "remove the double definition" but it doesn't help if you don't know how to do it.

Check the delete box and click Save?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Check the delete box and click Save?

Also, your old posts won't change until you resave them manually.

[ged]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Also, your old posts won't change until you resave them manually.

Thanks, that was the right answer.

[Mutt]

I just installed this and now quick edit sometimes doens't work. just pushed me to the advanced editor. I'm looking around but haven't found any this error in the FAQ or this thread. has anyone else had this problem / fixed it?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Mutt

I just installed this and now quick edit sometimes doens't work. just pushed me to the advanced editor. I'm looking around but haven't found any this error in the FAQ or this thread. has anyone else had this problem / fixed it?

It's not one that I've heard of before. Have you disabled the modification to make sure it still does it when turned off?

[Gladhatter]

Originally Posted by Mutt

I just installed this and now quick edit sometimes doens't work. just pushed me to the advanced editor. I'm looking around but haven't found any this error in the FAQ or this thread. has anyone else had this problem / fixed it?

Times like that I start looking for how I used to drop the ball 20 years ago when I believed hackers and malware and root kits and such did not exist.

You may wish to remove the remote code that some one has on your computer and you will see great joy.

[thestaton]

Anyone else having weird errors with this update?

I just upgraded to 3.80 last week, and now when ever a user posts a new URL the thread will time out. If they remove the URL it will post just fine.

Here's a sample of the error codes people have been sending me.

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.1:

Invalid SQL:

			SELECT thread.threadid, MATCH(thread.title) AGAINST ('V1 3.813 vs
9500Ci 35.5Ka 3/22/09') AS score
			FROM thread AS thread
			
			WHERE MATCH(thread.title) AGAINST ('V1 3.813 vs 9500Ci 35.5Ka 3/22/09')
				AND thread.open <> 10
				
				
			LIMIT 5;

MySQL Error   : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number  : 2006
Request Date  : Sunday, March 22nd 2009 @ 04:30:49 PM
Error Date    : Sunday, March 22nd 2009 @ 04:31:22 PM
Script        :
http://www.
Referrer      :
http://www.
IP Address    :
Username      :$$
Classname     : vB_Database_MySQLi
MySQL Version :

I've probably gotten about 15 of those from other forum users... I stripped out most of the personal info.

What could be going on?