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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[Armyqt]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

You need to upload each of the items into correct folders corresponding with your forums folders.

Double click the "Upload" folder you will see items to upload directly onto the forumhome directory and then you will see things like, "Admincp" inside it. If you open that file you will find items to upload into your "AdminCP" rather than onto your forumhome...

Ok, so what I'm hearing you say is this: Open up the AdminCP folder and take the contents and move them into MY AdminCP folder. Not the entire AdminCP to AdminCP. Transfer the files not the folders. SO I should not have an admincp subfolder under my admincp folder.

Assuming all of this is correct, I'm going to have to go back and change another hack. I thought that just dropping the entire folder would override the existing folder. If all of this is true, I have learned a great lesson here for future mods (I hope). Please advise.

[Alfa1]

Hey Geekman,

I hope you and your family are doing well.

Please consider to add functionality for avatar and profiles.

[Armyqt]

OK so I assumed that everything I wrote in the previous post was correct. I deleted the subfolders and put the files into the corresponding folders. It seems to have worked.

Question. Should the AME CP appear on my admincp as another link? I was able to access it through vbulletin settings, AME settings, and then there's a few clickable links to get to it. Is there an easier way to get to the AME CP?

[Armyqt]

Arrggh, I've made progress, but something is still off. When I go to post a new thread, I get this error message.

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/newthread.php(308) : eval()'d code on line 1

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/lotus14/public_html/forums/includes/ame_bbcode.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/lotus14/public_html/forums/newthread.php(308) : eval()'d code on line 1

[Phaedrus]

Originally Posted by Armyqt

Ok, so what I'm hearing you say is this: Open up the AdminCP folder and take the contents and move them into MY AdminCP folder. Not the entire AdminCP to AdminCP. Transfer the files not the folders. SO I should not have an admincp subfolder under my admincp folder.

Assuming all of this is correct, I'm going to have to go back and change another hack. I thought that just dropping the entire folder would override the existing folder. If all of this is true, I have learned a great lesson here for future mods (I hope). Please advise.

Yes, exactly.

Mods don't carry a full content of an AdminCP folder, you don't want to overwrite the folder either.

Just open each then move contents into the folder matching it on your server.

[Armyqt]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

Yes, exactly.

Mods don't carry a full content of an AdminCP folder, you don't want to overwrite the folder either.

Just open each then move contents into the folder matching it on your server.

I did and something good happened. lolCan you answer my other questions above, because this is still not functional.

[Gladhatter]

first of all it it prompted you to moe the floder and replace the other one with out replacing NON same name files then you may have been alright but if the option choosen or by default overwrites the folder and all contents then you best hope you had a recent back up.

[Phaedrus]

Originally Posted by Armyqt

I did and something good happened. lolCan you answer my other questions above, because this is still not functional.

What other questions. I don't want to search the thread.

I did notice that you said you uninstalled it. Once you upload the items into their correct folders you would install the product and you should have access to the AME CP in your Admin CP.

[Armyqt]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

What other questions. I don't want to search the thread.

I did notice that you said you uninstalled it. Once you upload the items into their correct folders you would install the product and you should have access to the AME CP in your Admin CP.

THANK YOU!!! I finally got it working on my forum. This is so cool.

You are the first person that ever made me understand where to upload files while doing these mods. Thanks again.

[rob01]

wich verison is better?

this one or the other