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

[Ohiosweetheart]

Originally Posted by The Geek

That means AME was installed before vbBlog. Check the AME tools menu in the admincp. There is an option to add the ame_flag column you need

Thanks Sam!

[ThorstenA]

How can I put my referral id to Amazon referral links ? Thanks.

[ArnyVee]

Originally Posted by ThorstenA

How can I put my referral id to Amazon referral links ? Thanks.

Thorsten, click on admincp >> ame cp >> display definitions >>

Then, scroll down to the Amazon thumbnails and click on the actual "Amazon (Thumbnails)" link and click on it. Then, you'll see the "Media Definition Code". The bottom of the two boxes (Replacement) is the one where you'll find where to put the 'tag' for your code.

An example is

title="{$ameinfo[title]}?tag=waldisboa-20"

and you'd replace the "waldisboa-20" with your code.

Hope that helps ... good luck :up:

[Kavadas]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Do you have vbseo running and if so, are you using it to track outbound links? Or maybe any other link modifying hack?

No, I don't have VBSEO. Here are all of the products I have installed on my forum:

• AME 2.5.4
• Cyb PM System Enhancements 1.5
• Easy Forms 3.6
• Facebook Connect 2.0.5
• Live Topic 1.07b
• vBadvanced CMPS 3.2.0
• vBCode Table 0.1.7.1
• vBFavorites 2.1.1

[The Geek]

pm me an admincp account and ill look

[Ryloth]

got it installed after i commented out the "index" portion which is really adding a column to a table. i added it manually.

youtube links wont parse though. i get an icon then a link. i read your FAQ and you say it is b/c it is not allowed to be embedded. i have to look into it more b/c it was doing it for every one of them.

anywho... 8.3.3 and it works.

[daFish]

What a fantastic mod.
However, I've a question about removing definitions: I've imported the list from DJ and noticed, that Amazon was also in the list. So I kicked all 3 of them out.
But when I posted a new entry containing an url from Amazon, the image still showed up and the url didn't got converted using another mod for the affiliate link.

Are the definitions getting cached somewhere or do I need to re-run the tool for rebuilding the posts again?

[Ryloth]

^^ there is a setting in the AME CP that is yes/no to cache definitions

[Ryloth]

ok so 3.8.3 and youtube def does not work. it always wraps it w/ a URL tag and puts the following image before it:




I have no other URL or video parsing items installed on my website. Could this be a vbulletin setting interfering?


If I wrap them in AME tags, it works fine.

[newsoftw]

when i Upgrade vb vbulletin version 3.8.2 into 3.8.3....after that , the youtube video is working stop and also some other videos means only show links in forum...

http://www.newsoftworld.com/forums/f...wc-2009-a.html

plz any idea about that and solve urgently this problem.

please any body help me urgently............please.....the videos are not display in the forum and all user start the complaints......

thanks in ADVNS