Show Thread Enhancements - AME - Auto Media Embedding (youtube, Amazon, google, myspace, etc...)

From the inventors of Swiss Cheese and the Egg comes AME - The Automatic Media Embedding System.

Note that Version 2.0.0 can be found here

AME is derived from GAL 6 base code but instead of linking keywords, it converts URLs that users paste or enter in their posts into inline embedded video streams.

Big credit goes out to mfyvie for the original concept that jazzed me up enough to lift code that I have been working on to radically improve his fresh idea. Though the same goal, I have taken a totally different approach to his initial release. This mod is 100% steaming fresh code straight from the Geeks oven of love.

First... the overview

AME scans new and edited posts for pre-defined patterns of URLs (i.e. youtube's). If it finds a match, it swaps the url tag for an ame tag.
When a post get parsed for bbcode and an ame tag is found, instead of hammering away at the post with umpteen bbcodes, AME quietly figures out which pre-defined embedding should be placed there and... viola', you have a pretty little embedded video like this:

Attachment 66927

This is significantly faster, has much lower overhead and is much easier to manage than loads of bbcodes or a than scanning every single post as the user views it to see if there are any conversions that need to be made.

Now for the bells and whistles

AME:

• 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. This radically reduces overhead and speeds up the 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 in a post)
• 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!
• 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 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
• 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 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

Add ons

AME comes configured with YouTube, Myspacetv, Google Video, Bolt, iFilm, Yahoo, Dailymotion, Amazon and MetaCafe Support built in. Since the amount of providers are always changing and most sites will only need a particular amount, AME has been designed with an import and export system to allow members to easily share formats with one another. In fact, the second post of this thread is updated periodically to relflect those add ons. Currently there are over 12 more additional formats contributed by AME users. Click here to see them.

Installation

• Upload the contents of the forums folder into your forums directory and import the product.xml file into your product manager.
• 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.

Troubleshooting

See this post on troubleshooting

A note about support and such

I have my plate pretty full with taking care of my commercial mods and the support that comes with them. Saying that, I will help when I can - but to be honest, I have ensured that there should be little to no support needed on this mod as it is very much self contained.
Please do not PM or post asking me to give you regexp's to support additional media streams. I built the system so that you can add your own providers as well as the ability to import and export them. If you still need a pattern but are not great with regular expressions (who is?) then I suggest getting RegExpBuddy. Although I am not expert at regular expressions, I did a quick start tutorial on AME regexps here if you want to check it out. I don't mind you guys asking amongst each other for these things, but just note that I will most likely not respond to the requests.

I will reserve the first couple of posts in this thread to periodically add user contributed patterns to import and for additional information (I hate mega long first post's in the release section). So check there for up to date information.

nJoy

[Adult SEO]

I have added the folowing as replace for "file_get_contents()":

PHP Code:

 
function ame_random_useragent() {
 $uas = array();
 $uas[] = 'SonyEricssonP900/R102 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.0 Rev/MR4';
 $uas[] = 'FireFox (X11; Linux i686; pl-PL); slackware; FireFox;';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; FastWeb; Windows NT 5.1; OMEGA)';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/5.001 (windows; U; NT4.0; en-us) Gecko/25250101 ';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0b; Windows NT 6.0)';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.1; Windows NT 6.0)';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0b; Windows NT 6.0)';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.2; Windows NT 6.0)';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.1; Windows NT 6.0)';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.1; Windows NT 6.0)';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.1; Windows NT 6.0)';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.1; Windows NT 6.0)';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.1; Windows NT 6.0)';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.1; Windows NT 6.0)';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)';
 $uas[] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)';
 return $uas[array_rand($uas,1)];
}
function ame_get_ips() {
 $ips = array( 
     array('66.197.xxx.xxx',ame_random_useragent()),
     array('66.197.xxx.xxx',ame_random_useragent()),
     array('66.197.xxx.xxx',ame_random_useragent()),
     array('66.197.xxx.xxx',ame_random_useragent()),
     array('66.197.xxx.xxx',ame_random_useragent()),
     array('66.197.xxx.xxx',ame_random_useragent()),
     array('66.197.xxx.xxx',ame_random_useragent())
    );
 return $ips;
}
 
function ame_get_conents($url) {
 $ips = ame_get_ips();
 $ip = $ips[array_rand($ips,1)];
 $ch = curl_init();
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INTERFACE, $ip[0]);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 50);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $ip[1]);
 if ($referer!='') { 
  #curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);
 }
 $return_data = curl_exec($ch);
 curl_close($ch);
 return $return_data;
} 


Note the timeout option to bypass the vBulletin BBCode parse timeout, if it exists. So far it seems to work again, when the title fetching fails just the AME bbcode remains unparsed and not a part of the other BBCode.

[Adult SEO]

It did not work, as it seems the auto refresh of the postcache will fail with AME enabled resulting in an partly (aprox. 50%) unparsed message.

[cherylferraro]

Can someone contribute the code for http://www.dailyhaha.com? One of my members keeps posting links to that site and my attempts at creating an embed code haven't worked.

Thank you

[hotwheels]

here ya go.........

[dknelson]

Originally Posted by Tom_S

Damn dude...Do you think the author sits here waiting for people with complaints and has immediate fixes? Have some patience. You aren't paying for all this work he did!

No, it was based upon several other posts that this was no longer being supported. Sorry if it offended you but it was not directed toward you. Also, you don't know WHAT I donate to and pay for.

[dknelson]

Originally Posted by tormodg

He has recently stopped supporting any of his mods. I doubt he will work on this one anymore when he bailed out on GARS.

Here is one of the posts that prompted my thread about it not being supported. I should have tried to verify it first. Does anybody know?

[hotwheels]

He is no longer supporting anything. He had an unforeseen family issue come up and has to take care of that. So at this time, he has put his website and mods up for sale, if a true coder want's to purchase what he has started. Other then that, it is up to members to try to make his mods stay functional.
I hate to say it, but family has to come before computer time and trust me, i like my computer time too.
I do recall him posting a thread that stated he sent back as much money as he could from his paypal account, and went back a couple months worth of people in doing so....but he nolonger takes money nor supports his site, mods, etc......

[dknelson]

Hey, I agree, family must always come first and I never said anything negative about the lack of support, just mentioned that I was going by to an older solution because of it. I wish him nothing but the best. I was primarily referring to the post where Tom S made what I felt were unnecessary and out of line remarks regarding my post.

[hotwheels]

It's all good with me, i just wasn't sure if you knew thegeeks situation or not. I know some people were upset with him. You and i both think alike when it comes to family first.....

[nickypoooo]

Great mod, I installed it and it did work few times but now all I get is this :

Attachment 72106

What can I do to fix this?

Thank you!





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