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

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by ehd

Any news on the broken Amazon-definitions?

Which one is broken exactly?

[ehd]

amazon-thumbnails

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by ehd

amazon-thumbnails

These thumbnails are working for me for Amazon Thumbnails, I tried a couple of links on your page and they worked when using this definition too.

I don't remember if I edited this or if it was just the latest version from the "Delta Definitions", but it works.

[ehd]

Thx.

Had the exact same code like you and even imported it again. The same problem..

From the code:

$p1._SL175_.jpg

$p seems to be omitted and vanishes somewhere. What could it cause?

[BirdOPrey5]

Open the Thumbnail definition...

Change the "Embedding Regexp" box to this:

http://[ecximg2]+\.[images-]*amazon\.[coma]+/images/I/([\w&;%.=-]+)\.

(I added a period)

I think that should work, my theory is some servers/php installs are configured a little differently than others.

[ehd]

Hm...no, that had no effect..

I'm running PHP Version 5.2.6-1+lenny10

But there have been no changes at all, that's why I'm so puzzled...

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by ehd

Hm...no, that had no effect..

I'm running PHP Version 5.2.6-1+lenny10

But there have been no changes at all, that's why I'm so puzzled...

Try this...

http://[ecximg2]+\.[images-]*amazon\.[coma]+/images/I/([\wa-zA-Z&;%.=-]+)\.[jpg]*[gif]*[png]*

it's a little more explicit.

[ehd]

Still the same problem....no image.

It has worked for at least 1 or 2 years like a charm....

[BirdOPrey5]

Last thing I can think of trying...

http://[ecximg2]+\.[images-]*amazon\.[coma]+/images/I/([\w&;%=\.-]+)\.[jpg]*[gif]*[png]*

[ehd]

*Sigh*

Thanks alot for your help, but that didn't do it either..

Probably I seem to be the only one who has the problem, so the only way is to look for the cause of the problem...