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

[ellinofatsa]

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in [path]\includes\class_bootstrap.php(1146) : eval()'d code on line 38

any help???
if y enabled this i schow that mesage on header.

[The Geek]

Are you using vB4?

[ellinofatsa]

yes

vBulletin 4.0.2 Patch Level 4

is this not for vb4;

[The Geek]

no - hence why its in the 3.8 forums

Try AME3 in the vb4.0 forum - but read the readme first.

HTHs

[Itchy Nips]

Originally Posted by DieselMinded

all of you tube links are saying embeding not available and are showing links

same here

[DieselMinded]

remove the validation code from the Youtube AME definition it fixed mine

[Ramsesx]

Originally Posted by DieselMinded

remove the validation code from the Youtube AME definition it fixed mine

Can confirm this, thanks for the hint.

[Pandemikk]

Any fix for:

Redirecting some users to http://joysportsworld.info:8/

For the time being I've just disabled plugin:

AME : Permission Hide global_start

[DieselMinded]

you was hacked ! , Google - Eval Decode vBulletin Exploit , I suggest you add password protection to your admin directory ASAP

[accludetuner]

Originally Posted by accludetuner

Here, for more info....if I alter the admin php and comment out the "\1" check like this:

PHP Code:

$value = trim($value);

                //if (strpos($value, '\1') === false)
                //{
                    
                //    $errors[] = $vbphrase['automediaembed_err_missing_param'];
                    
                //}
                //else
                //{
                    
                    $replacements[] = "[url]$value" . "[/url]";
                    
                //} 


then it will go on to do the simulated conversion but it doesn't actually replace the link. It shows conversions like this:




I even got tired of manually filling out the tags and replacements each time so I altered these in the admin file and this is EXACTLY what shows up in the conversion page and as you can see there is no trailing spaces or characters:

PHP Code:

    if (!isset($settings['codes']))
            {
                $settings['codes']             = 'youtube, gvideo, myspacevideo';
                $settings['conversions']     = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\1, http://www.google.com/videoplay\?docid=\1, http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=\1';
            } 


Well, I couldn't wait any more and since no one seemed to have any input on this issue I just manually created a SQL query to replace the old BBcodes with the new AME one. Took several hours of manual entry but at least it got done.

To whoever is currently maintaining this mod, I do believe it is a flaw somewhere in the code. Perhaps it's a PHP version conflict or something, but I am 100% sure that I had the fields filled correctly. Hell, even the DEFAULT entries produced the same error without any change. It might be a fluke error but I would suggest looking into it as I'm not the only one who has experienced it and perhaps others will in the future too.

Thanks for an awesome mod (even with this issue I had) !!!