BB Code Enhancements - AME3 - Auto Media Embeding and Video Extender

From the makers of Smooth and Jazz comes the singing sensation my mom has been waiting months for:

AME3. Bigger. Badder. Bestest.

NOTE ABOUT vB4.0.3: ------------------------------------------------------------

vBulletin 4.0.3 has changed the way video codes are handled and in the process, inadvertently broke AME3. I have submitted a bug report and believe that the issue will be quickly resolved. There is a manual fix you can apply for 4.0.3 here in the interim.
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AME3 is the sequel to the multi award winning AME 1x and AME 2x systems. AME3. This time, its different.

Vote for AME3 as MotM!

If you like AME3, you'll love AME'fy for your profiles!

AME3 does 3 things:

• It allows users to simply paste URLs into their message without having to use the video bbcode or video popup box.
• It allows you to add, edit and customise the video definitions that ship with vB4
• It allows you to import community created definitions to extend the system in ways you otherwise couldn't.

Now you can use AME anywhere you can use video bbcode: posts, blogs, visitor messages, the CMS, etc...

Note that I am releasing this early for beta testing and general feedback. There is currently a bug in RC2, RC4 and 4.0.0 that will prevent AME from working however there is a workaround posted below.

I have written a pretty comprehensive readme and attached it seperatly to this post. I suspect both this post and the readme will get updated as AME3 becomes finalised.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Chuk

The problem was solved after deleting the following string in ame_prep.php file:

PHP Code:

$text = preg_replace('%(\[(quote|php|html|code|nomedia)([^\]]*)\](.*?)\[/(\2)\])%sime', '$this->substitute(\'\1\', $this->_subbed)', $text); 


May I leave this file without that string?

Yes, you can comment out that line in the meantime. Its job is to prevent auto embedding videos within quote blocks and such. However it isn't overly useful yet simply because it isn't stripping out videos from that spot either. Comment it out for now and Ill try to resolve the bug in the next build.

[meissenation]

I'm a doofus - disregard about it not working. I didn't see the edit and save of the plugin. Funny how you have to edit the plugin and then hit save? Either way - works now.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by InfoAddict

I too have the same problem - vb4 upgrade from vb3 and previous version of AME.

I then upgraded to AME3 and did a convert on my posts to change all ame= to the below video format.

For instance - check this page:

http://dev.gamers-underground.com/me...his-match.html

This is the code for the link:

[video=youtube;apWrS2uPBTg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apWrS2uPBTg[/video]

Only thing I can think of is that I left the vb3 version installed when I did the upgrade.

I have removed the link from the hook xml file - it just doesn't seem to kick in.

Did you then save the AME hook? As to the code above, that looks correct to me. Running the conversion tool will convert old AME bbcode into URLs which can be converted to video codes. If you edit that first post which is just an youtube link, does it embed the video or not?

[Lighting90]

Right, I can get the video embedding to work only in the admin forum, editing the post I put up earlier it doesn't work... I have added a post after it with the same link, and not working, also tried in another part of the forum, also not working...

Is there any permissions I should go and look at...

[The Geek]

nope. All AME3 does is look to see if you have a video in your URL tags. If do, its changes the url tag to a video tag. Nothin too fancy. Most of AME's key features are the ability to manage and import/export definitions through the admincp.

[InfoAddict]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Did you then save the AME hook? As to the code above, that looks correct to me. Running the conversion tool will convert old AME bbcode into URLs which can be converted to video codes. If you edit that first post which is just an youtube link, does it embed the video or not?

Yes - I even then disabled it and re-enabled it. I then uninstalled the product and re-installed it.

Editing that post doesn't fix it neither does a new post.

Still no go.

I know a bit of PHP, is there some way I can insert some debug code to see if it's starting or not?

EDIT: I just turned on vb's debug mode and the hook "data_preparse_bbcode_video_start" isn't called at all.

[The Geek]

Then follow the steps again. It isn't being called because they put that hook in the wrong section of the hooks_vbcms.xml file. Deleting it means that next time the cache of hooks is saved (via savinga hook) it will build correctly. See the link in the first post to the bug tracker.

HTHs

[Delilahs]

Does this also do VShare ?

[Lighting90]

Originally Posted by The Geek

nope. All AME3 does is look to see if you have a video in your URL tags. If do, its changes the url tag to a video tag. Nothin too fancy. Most of AME's key features are the ability to manage and import/export definitions through the admincp.

Arh, thanks, that makes it a lot clearer, so it is something else wrong then as I have the video tags... it's just not emebedding the video's. So This means I need to have a good look through the forum settings.... I must have messed something up somewhere.. (Not unusual for me....)

[Birute]

Love it, thanks. It worked great!!!

There are some posts with just the url for the youtube video without any tags around the url, any suggestions on how to convert these to tagged url's without spending hours on editing each post then running the rebuild?