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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[Digital Jedi]

Okay, I'm referring to this post in the AME 3 thread by The Geek. For a while now I've wanted to delve into an existing product to assist in my own personal studies of PHP and vB mod development. But I need a good reason to spend that time on it. I was going to ask The Geek first, but wasn't sure I could get in contact with him now that he's not longer involved in vBulletin coding. But it seems he's left the code open for anyone to try and continue development. To keep AME alive. I wish to do that. I wish to keep AME going for the foreseeable future. So while I can't guarantee a timeline, I am going to try and do my own second generation release of the AME code to try and keep this great product alive. I need to spend some time reviewing the code, understanding the fundamentals. But I intend to try to keep this product from fading away. Don't know if that will include vB4 development, at least not at first, but I will look into. Hope you can bear with me.

[Black Tiger]

I think it's great you want to take it over and keep it alive.

My compliments already!

[schlottkej]

3 cheers for DJ!

[dieselpowered]

Hey everyone, I would like to change the color of the title on the container. What would be the best way to do that? I see it uses the tcat class, however, black on black is a little hard to read, lol. Not sure why it is not taking the text color of the tcat in the css settings?

Thanks in advance!

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by dieselpowered

Hey everyone, I would like to change the color of the title on the container. What would be the best way to do that? I see it uses the tcat class, however, black on black is a little hard to read, lol. Not sure why it is not taking the text color of the tcat in the css settings?

Thanks in advance!

It should look just like your category headers, but it's possible you have something overriding the text of the div that contains posts. Try adding a style="color:color name/#number" to that table cell in the container template and see if it changes anything.

[zeus_r6]

Is there a way to disable embedding on a specific style?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by zeus_r6

Is there a way to disable embedding on a specific style?

Oh, I see you found it. I recommend not bumping 2.0 thread again. Can cause a few folks to download the wrong version.

Check the add-on for my AME Templates for Mobile Skin. That should do what your wanting.

[zeus_r6]

Thanks so much!

[mmllc]

This doesn't work so swell for me

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by mmllc

This doesn't work so swell for me

What seems to be the problem? Remember that the default definitions here don't work anymore. You'd need to get the up to date definitions from my thread.