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

[boggseric]

Originally Posted by jca2112

It looks like this same character entity problem in YouTube titles has returned -- I assume it was a change on YouTube's end because it went away on it's own last time. Does anyone know anything about this?

This is from the definitions thread but it should be in here as it requires a change to the mod.

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

I fixed it like this... I had to edit the AME mod... Backup your original file if you try this.

In the includes directory find the file ame_bbcode.php

At line #589 find this code:

PHP Code:

$title = trim(str_replace(array("\t","\n"), "", $match[1])); 


Replace it with:

PHP Code:

$title = trim(str_replace(array("\t","\n", "‏", "‪", "‬"), "", $match[1])); 


All I can promise is it's working for me. It won't fix links you've already made but should keep new ones clean.

[BamaStangGuy]

Can't rebuild old posts because of this error:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT 
								p.postid, 
								p.pagetext,
								p.ame_flag,
								t.forumid 
							FROM post p 
							INNER JOIN thread t on p.threadid = t.threadid
							WHERE 
								1=1 AND 
								(p.pagetext LIKE '%[/url]%' OR p.pagetext LIKE '%[/ame]%' OR pagetext LIKE '%[/nomedia]%')
								-604800 
							ORDER BY
								p.dateline DESC 
							LIMIT 0, 100;

MySQL Error   : Unknown column 'p.ame_flag' in 'field list'

[jca2112]

Originally Posted by jca2112

It looks like this same character entity problem in YouTube titles has returned -- I assume it was a change on YouTube's end because it went away on it's own last time. Does anyone know anything about this?

It doesn't look like YouTube is going to correct this title problem on their end (as they did last time).

Will this mod be updated to remove those encoded character glitches in the YouTube title? As the previous poster mentioned, not really looking to make mod edits unless this version/mod is no longer being supported.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by jca2112

It doesn't look like YouTube is going to correct this title problem on their end (as they did last time).

Will this mod be updated to remove those encoded character glitches in the YouTube title? As the previous poster mentioned, not really looking to make mod edits unless this version/mod is no longer being supported.

This mod was last updated in 2009 and is marked "Unsupported." I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for an update.

[holyknight0326]

Anyone have a successful installation with vbulletin 4.0+?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by holyknight0326

Anyone have a successful installation with vbulletin 4.0+?

This will definitely NOT work with 4.x. There is a 4.x AME mod, it doesn't have all the features but it's enough to do the same basic thing.

[Wonksta]

Any update on the ability to parse youtu.be links? Seeing a lot of them popping up on the forums I admin.

[Forensic]

Originally Posted by Wonksta

Any update on the ability to parse youtu.be links? Seeing a lot of them popping up on the forums I admin.

Found this in the definitions thread.



https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...be#post2182859

[teach1st]

Disabled. Rebuilding threads really messed up any posts that used this mod.

[ehd]

Any news on the broken Amazon-definitions?