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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[tei727]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Check the permissions of the files you just uploaded. Soesnt sound like your sever has permissions to execute them

i'm pretty sure i did everything correctly. i'll wait and see what everyone else gets.

[MarkJW]

Marked as installed, marked the old 2.5RC1 thread as uninstalled, waiting on these leetle bugs to get fixed before I actually install, lol.

Thanks in advance.

[Mihalis]

Originally Posted by SemperFideles

I had 2.5RC1 already installed and successfully working. I uploaded the contents of the forum folder to my directory (did this twice) but when I try to install the product I receive this error:

Same here! Whats the problem?

[phreebsd]

waiting on fix. currently in mixed state of uploaded new files but have not imported product xml due to the "missing files.. make sure you upload them all" error

[jack the lad]

I cannot figure out where the "amecache-Index" folder/file goes, is it in the forum root directory?

I also get the file missing message, but I put that down to me ballsing up the upgrade

Nice mod though. Cheers.

[tei727]

Originally Posted by jack the lad

I cannot figure out where the "amecache-Index" folder/file goes, is it in the forum root directory?

I also get the file missing message, but I put that down to me ballsing up the upgrade

Nice mod though. Cheers.

i think that is correct...

[Pure Dope]

Importing Product, Please Wait...

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vBulletin Message

It seems like you are missing some of the required AME files.
Please upload the contents of the upload/forums folder into your forums directory before installing this modification.

[WreckRman2]

I uploaded the files and tried to upload the xml. This is an upgrade from previous. I got the following error:

It seems like you are missing some of the required AME files.
Please upload the contents of the upload/forums folder into your forums directory before installing this modification.

I did upload the files correctly. Just FYI.


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I wiped out the check for the files in the xml and it installed ok.

[redlabour]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Ill go tweak that code and update it. Give me a few

We can wait.

[Idawg]

Same here

It seems like you are missing some of the required AME files.
Please upload the contents of the upload/forums folder into your forums directory before installing this modification.

Sounds like you need to take out the file checker.. I mean if people cant read the README and get all kinds of errors, not your problem LOL