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

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by tintructo

any news on the ksort problem with the XML with all the sites ?

Haven't been able to duplicate. It shouldn't prevent imports though.

Originally Posted by lowlight

Wow, many tables are messed up. Our database is huge, this is going to take hours.

What does the plugin attempt to do when you install it? Whatever it was, it was pretty serious.

AME adds a flag field to the posts, blog and groups tables. This allows people to disable embedding as well as to greatly speed up processing. If your posts table is massive, it will take a while to do, but it isn't an abnormal practise. Sounds like your tables may have already been in a state, especially if you have to repair additional tables. Its a good idea to backup your db before installing a mod that makes changes to the DB structure. Hope your repair goes smoothly

Originally Posted by TCB

Thanks for this fantastic mod. How's gars and gal going currently?

Thanks Gars and GAL (and other thevbgeek.com scripts) are owned and supported by another author now (a very fine one might I add). I only upgraded this because it needed to be and it was a quick job

HTHs!

[tintructo]

the code in automediaembed_admin.php in line 2515 is :

PHP Code:

ksort($arr['items']); 


BUT, it should be

PHP Code:

ksort($arr['item']); 


the ksort not functioning makes the display of the sites unordered. with this fix it should work fine =)

cheers

[The Geek]

Thanks for that. Ill update for next release

[Manic Mechanic]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Thanks Geek! Will test it out right now and start working on the next set of defs if all is well. :up:


You like having to give your users special instructions on how to use BBCode and then make them extract a set of numbers from the URL everytime, rather then just have them post the URL to the video and not even have to let them think about it? Okay. Just keep in mind, there's more then 20 to 30 sites that BBCode wouldn't even work with, because their videos have no video ID and AME converts them without having to even tell your users that it's going to embed.



Post the link to the Imeem URL that's not converting, but post it in the thread you downloaded my definitions from if you haven't already. I haven't checked those threads as of this post.



If you're using mine, then I haven't implemented that yet. Mainly because I didn't know how to use it. Now that I see the The Geek has one in his default install, I can reverse engineer what he did and I'll have it ready for the next 2.5 Defs update.



Make sure your using my set of definitions for 2.5 (Delta) and not the set for 2.0 (Third Time's the Charm).

Thank you I was still using 2.0 definitions.

[tintructo]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Thanks for that. Ill update for next release

i just found out the ksort isn't working, because it can't re-order with values that actually are arrays..

you should use usort and make the custom comparing function to check the titles so it's ordered by name

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by tintructo

i just found out the ksort isn't working, because it can't re-order with values that actually are arrays..

you should use usort and make the custom comparing function to check the titles so it's ordered by name

Are you saying that definitions aren't sorting by name for you? Because I've never had an problems as long as they were all set to the same number. Or are you refering to the sort order inside the XML file?

[Digital Jedi]

Okay, you got me: I don't I understand how the Validation tool works. What is the RegEx checking for to determine if a video can be embedded or not?

Also, running this on my demo board, the default YouTube definition doesn't convert anything. It just turns videos into the little Film icon and nothing more.

[The Geek]

Updated package to 2.5.3

This is a minor update which solves the ksort error some have reported while importing and a bug where non validated media wasnt showing the link.

Upgrade as normal

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Okay, you got me: I don't I understand how the Validation tool works. What is the RegEx checking for to determine if a video can be embedded or not?

Also, running this on my demo board, the default YouTube definition doesn't convert anything. It just turns videos into the little Film icon and nothing more.

The validation works like this:

If the validation field has a value and extraction is on, then AME will scan the contents of the destination page for the existence of the validation field. If it finds the value, it is validated, otherwise not.

For instance, the following regexp is actually part of the HTML input box that contains youtubes Embed code IF the video can be embeded. If not, this regexp won't validate because the input box actually says 'Embedding disabled by request' instead of the HTML needed to embed:

value="http://www\.youtube\.com/v/([\w\-]*)?&

There was a bug prior to 2.5.3 that prevented the title appearing in a non validated result (just the icon showed).

HTHs

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by The Geek

The validation works like this:

If the validation field has a value and extraction is on, then AME will scan the contents of the destination page for the existence of the validation field. If it finds the value, it is validated, otherwise not.

For instance, the following regexp is actually part of the HTML input box that contains youtubes Embed code IF the video can be embeded. If not, this regexp won't validate because the input box actually says 'Embedding disabled by request' instead of the HTML needed to embed:

value="http://www\.youtube\.com/v/([\w\-]*)?&

There was a bug prior to 2.5.3 that prevented the title appearing in a non validated result (just the icon showed).

HTHs

Ah, I see. My logic was completely inverted. I'll see if I can update my other YouTube defs after breakfast.