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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[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by fly

I'm pretty sure that whoever invented regex did it because he hated people.

Thanks BirdOPrey5!!!

It took me months if viewing regex help web pages with zero understanding- like reading a foreign language... but then one day, it just "clicked" and I went regex crazy.

[viper357]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Here's what I'm using for the new short youtube URLs...

Not working for me.

[BirdOPrey5]

Can you paste a short youtube URL here that isn't working?

[viper357]

I've tried 3 or 4 random youtube links and none of them work. http://youtu.be/TKPvwep08xc

[BirdOPrey5]

I don't know... here's that link on my forum:
http://www.juot.net/forums/showthrea...28#post1015228

It worked fine. But I think I see what might be the issue... The period in youtu.be I didn't 'escape' - that is it should be youtu\.be in the code. Some versions of php might require this while others don't.

I made this change and this is the updated definition. Delete the old one.

[viper357]

Still not working, not to worry Joe, thanks for trying.

[BirdOPrey5]

Something like this is going to annoy me all day... Can you give any more info? I assume by "doesn't work" you mean it doesn't even attempt convert it? Is there anything unusual about your server setup?

[viper357]

lol

Yip, it doesn't do a thing, simply places the short link in the post, when you click on the link it takes you to youtube as per normal.

Not too sure about my server setup, I know I'm on a Litespeed server with urljet.com if that helps, on the vbPlatinum which is semi-dedicated shared hosting.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by viper357

lol

Yip, it doesn't do a thing, simply places the short link in the post, when you click on the link it takes you to youtube as per normal.

Not too sure about my server setup, I know I'm on a Litespeed server with urljet.com if that helps, on the vbPlatinum which is semi-dedicated shared hosting.

I'm also one Litespeed on urljet!! UGGGHHH!! This isn't making it any easier.

Forgive me for the seemingly entry-level questions but:
1) Could you have another youtu.be deffinition active
and
2) Are you sure this definition IS set to active?

[viper357]

1) Could you have another youtu.be deffinition active

Nope, I tried the one from snakes, then uninstalled it, tried your first one, uninstalled it and tried your 2nd one.

2) Are you sure this definition IS set to active?

Yip, it's active, just the "Extract Info" column doesn't have a tick in it, but I tried it both with and without but it didn't make any difference. I even tried a bit of mix and match with snakes code but this sort of coding is way out of my league.