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

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[RadioErewan]

Hey, Geek, where descriptions are inserted into DB? I have ISO-8859-2 forum, and titles from YT containing characters outside of ASCII7 are destroyed (guess it is not iconved).

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by drjdh

This application doesn't seem to work unless HTML is turned on for the forum. Is there a way to get around this? If not, is this a big security concern?

Wha? Where on earth did you hear that HTML needed to be on?

Originally Posted by RadioErewan

Hey, Geek, where descriptions are inserted into DB? I have ISO-8859-2 forum, and titles from YT containing characters outside of ASCII7 are destroyed (guess it is not iconved).

Er... do you mean the titles for the link? When you post a link to youtube and you have extraction on, it will go fetch the page title and lin it up as [ame="url"]title of page[/ame]

I did some encoding for multiple languages, but as I only speak English (and not very well) I am at a disadvantage.

[drjdh]

It only works if I have HTML enabled for the forum. Otherwise, I get only the link showing up instead of the video.

[RadioErewan]

See here - it is publicly available on my forum
http://forum.olympusclub.pl/showpost...postcount=1128
And second video should contain "Paweł" not "PaweĹ�" on title bar as it is on original youtube page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlFbqtNjB0A
Hope will be able to find where you are writing it, but you know your code and can hint me, where to search for it. iconv is needed.
Would love to run my forum on UTF, but you know, it is not supported ;-)

Regards

[drjdh]

This is the error message that I am getting:

The path to your file cache is set to /amecache/ which appears to be invalid and as such, the file cache is not correctly working. The suggested default value is /hermes/bosweb/web183/b1838/ipg.drjdh/amecache/.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by drjdh

It only works if I have HTML enabled for the forum. Otherwise, I get only the link showing up instead of the video.

Can you post a link as an example.

Originally Posted by RadioErewan

See here - it is publicly available on my forum
http://forum.olympusclub.pl/showpost...postcount=1128
And second video should contain "Paweł" not "PaweĹ�" on title bar as it is on original youtube page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlFbqtNjB0A
Hope will be able to find where you are writing it, but you know your code and can hint me, where to search for it. iconv is needed.
Would love to run my forum on UTF, but you know, it is not supported ;-)

Regards

Not sure where the encoding will need to be done. Most likely here:

in includes/ame_bbcode.php specifically function ame_fetch_www_title

PHP Code:

$title = unhtmlspecialchars($title); 


or possibly here (though this is at runtime):

includes/ame_bbcode.php

PHP Code:

$ameinfo['title'] = htmlspecialchars_uni($param1); 


Originally Posted by drjdh

This is the error message that I am getting:

The path to your file cache is set to /amecache/ which appears to be invalid and as such, the file cache is not correctly working. The suggested default value is /hermes/bosweb/web183/b1838/ipg.drjdh/amecache/.

That is a warning that your path to the file cache is incorrect. It needs the full server path to the folder. Listen to AME, she is giving you the answer

[drjdh]

First is the image of the website.
Second image is of the settings panel (still getting error message).

[drjdh]

Ok, I got it working.

Problem: Needed to install the Product-ame.xml AFTER the files are uploaded.

Silly me

[RadioErewan]

Originally Posted by The Geek

in includes/ame_bbcode.php specifically function ame_fetch_www_title

PHP Code:

$title = unhtmlspecialchars($title); 


First shot:

PHP Code:

$title = unhtmlspecialchars(mb_convert_encoding ($title, 'ISO-8859-2', 'UTF-8' )); 


and everything works like a charm.

Thank you master!

[Musika]

I think the definition for clipfish has changed, cause it doesn't work.

This is an example expression

http://www.clipfish.de/video/3221228/

What is the Media Definition Code, Regular expression and Replacement so that I can fix it?