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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[Deimos]

Does anyone else have problems with this plugin taking an AGE to embed a video?
For instance, when I embed a youtube video in a new thread, it takes upwards of 20 seconds for the post to submit
Any suggestions?

[JorgeX]

DId AME 2.0 automaccally updated to 2.5 on my forum? It says "Version: 2.5" when i installed the 2.02

Also when i post i get this message:

Warning: fetch_full_ameinfo([path]/amecache/findonly.php) [function.fetch-full-ameinfo]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 74

Warning: fetch_full_ameinfo([path]/amecache/findonly.php) [function.fetch-full-ameinfo]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 74

Warning: fetch_full_ameinfo() [function.include]: Failed opening '[path]/amecache/findonly.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in [path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 74

[jellybeanz]

I'm having issues getting my youtube links to embed automatically. It works fine when I enter a link using [ame]youtube link[/ame]. Posting other videos like gametrailers, photopost, and cnn videos autoembed with no issues.

I've removed the ame code, deleted/reuploaded all files, and uninstalled/reinstalled using rebuild with no luck. I'm not sure if it makes a difference but I'm using DJ's AME definitions.

Any help is appreciated.

[fkatzenb]

Thanks for the great plug in. I have converted my old Goldbrick posts without issue. Awesome. Now for the problem. Before I had Goldbrick, I used an embedded thing that used the following as an example...
[YOUTUBE="Warrant - Uncle Tom's Cabin"]te1iSbyaR9I[/YOUTUBE]

Well now, I tried converting it and it finds posts, but says "huh... no changes?" The posts it lists are correct, but it doesn't change anything

Help? Thanks!

[Phaedrus]

How is it I've missed this for so long? My word...

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Deimos

Does anyone else have problems with this plugin taking an AGE to embed a video?
For instance, when I embed a youtube video in a new thread, it takes upwards of 20 seconds for the post to submit
Any suggestions?

I've not encountered any slowdown with AME myself. In fact, it's faster then BBCode. Perhaps the issue is the YouTube site being slow at certain times?

Originally Posted by JorgeX

DId AME 2.0 automaccally updated to 2.5 on my forum? It says "Version: 2.5" when i installed the 2.02


Also when i post i get this message:



Warning: fetch_full_ameinfo([path]/amecache/findonly.php) [function.fetch-full-ameinfo]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 74

Warning: fetch_full_ameinfo([path]/amecache/findonly.php) [function.fetch-full-ameinfo]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 74

Warning: fetch_full_ameinfo() [function.include]: Failed opening '[path]/amecache/findonly.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in [path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 74

Do you have any other admins that may have tried to upgrade the product? It can't update on it's own. Make sure ame_bbcode.php and all your AME files uploaded to the right place on the server.

Originally Posted by jellybeanz

I'm having issues getting my youtube links to embed automatically. It works fine when I enter a link using [ame]youtube link[/ame]. Posting other videos like gametrailers, photopost, and cnn videos autoembed with no issues.

I've removed the ame code, deleted/reuploaded all files, and uninstalled/reinstalled using rebuild with no luck. I'm not sure if it makes a difference but I'm using DJ's AME definitions.

Any help is appreciated.

When you imported my definitions, did you remember to delete the stock YouTube definition first? Mine won't import on this new version if you don't, and the import process won't stop you if you imported a bunch of other defs successfully at the same time.

Originally Posted by fkatzenb

Thanks for the great plug in. I have converted my old Goldbrick posts without issue. Awesome. Now for the problem. Before I had Goldbrick, I used an embedded thing that used the following as an example...
[YOUTUBE="Warrant - Uncle Tom's Cabin"]te1iSbyaR9I[/YOUTUBE]

Well now, I tried converting it and it finds posts, but says "huh... no changes?" The posts it lists are correct, but it doesn't change anything

Help? Thanks!

Have you checked the code in the non-converted posts to see if they in fact still have the [youtube] BBCode in them and that Goldbrick didn't do something funny upon uninstall?

[jellybeanz]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

When you imported my definitions, did you remember to delete the stock YouTube definition first? Mine won't import on this new version if you don't, and the import process won't stop you if you imported a bunch of other defs successfully at the same time.

Yes, I deleted the stock amazon and youtube definitions. The definition is fine and still works but manually only. Just trying to find out if there is something wrong with my board or installation.

[Phaedrus]

I'm having database issues after loading this. When I try to save my Usergroup settings it gives me database errors. What is happening?

This is the MySql error:

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'ms_searchsocialgroups_permissions' in 'field list'

[Gladhatter]

Originally Posted by fkatzenb

Thanks for the great plug in. I have converted my old Goldbrick posts without issue. Awesome. Now for the problem. Before I had Goldbrick, I used an embedded thing that used the following as an example...
[YOUTUBE="Warrant - Uncle Tom's Cabin"]te1iSbyaR9I[/YOUTUBE]

Well now, I tried converting it and it finds posts, but says "huh... no changes?" The posts it lists are correct, but it doesn't change anything

Help? Thanks!

Not sure but I would like to suggest the problem may be with the < ' > single quote.

[Phaedrus]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

I'm having database issues after loading this. When I try to save my Usergroup settings it gives me database errors. What is happening?

This is the MySql error:

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'ms_searchsocialgroups_permissions' in 'field list'

Well, I just added that table field list where it kept trying to find it. It works.