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

[Lone Gunman]

these are the mods i was getting conflicts with and causing the blank white pages when i had this installed

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=177552
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=177563
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=167567
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=201228
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=204511
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=200005

[tekguru]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Which won't get matched by AME as it isn't a valid AME URL. I have glanced through your addons, but nothing specifically stands out. It may be a vbseo function to track outbound links, but i'm not too sure (I use vBSEO and mine doesnt do that).

Do you know what it is?

Weird as far as I know there is nothing in there that does this, unless as you say it is vbSEO.
Any chance you can PM me a screen capture of your vbSEO settings and I'll then compare to see if i have any settings turned on that you don't?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Lone Gunman

these are the mods i was getting conflicts with and causing the blank white pages when i had this installed

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=177552
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=177563
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=167567
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=201228
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=204511
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=200005

Are you sure about that? I just looked at them all and not sure how they would contribute. AME doesn't even get fired up as such in Pm's. I just tested out the first one and there doesn't appear to be any conflict and like I said, the others don't really looks like they could interfere. Do you have access to your error log? If so, reproduce the behaviour and look at your error log and that will give the reason why its happening.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by tekguru

Weird as far as I know there is nothing in there that does this, unless as you say it is vbSEO.
Any chance you can PM me a screen capture of your vbSEO settings and I'll then compare to see if i have any settings turned on that you don't?

Looks like its a Google Analytics function. I'll need to look into it a bit more.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Looks like its a Google Analytics function. I'll need to look into it a bit more.

Ok tek, I found it... looks like it is a vBSEO setting to support tracking all outbound links from your forum using Google Analytics.

in your vbseo cp it is the:

Add Google Analytics "Tracking External Link Clicks" Code?

setting. For performance reasons, I would suggest turning this to no unless you need to track outbound links. If you need to have it on, then you will need to disable AME as the two are fighting over the same URL and AME is getting her ass kicked

[tekguru]

Still no go unfortunately, I turned off that option, no difference and then turned off vbSEO completely and I still got:

<div style="display: none;" id="ame_noshow_post_1234375378_7">
<a href="" title="You Tube" target="_blank">You Tube</a>
</div>
<div style="display: inline;" id="ame_doshow_post_1234375378_7">
<div align="center">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" width="425" style="margin:10px 0">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="2" style="text-align:center">
<a href="" title="You Tube" target="_blank">You Tube</a>
</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<object width="425" height="350">
<param name=''movie'' value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uk0xWm8PMGQ&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uk0xWm8PMGQ&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div>
</div>

Sigh..... will have to turn AME back off again. Do you still need the Admin acces to do further tests?

[Lone Gunman]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Are you sure about that? I just looked at them all and not sure how they would contribute. AME doesn't even get fired up as such in Pm's. I just tested out the first one and there doesn't appear to be any conflict and like I said, the others don't really looks like they could interfere. Do you have access to your error log? If so, reproduce the behaviour and look at your error log and that will give the reason why its happening.

thats what i thought. with them disabled it works though. i could have something else wrong somewhere causing this too. im using vb 3.8.1


Server Type FreeBSD Data Usage 13.85 MB
Web Server Apache v1.3.37 (cgi-fcgi) Index Usage 1.70 MB
PHP 5.2.3 Attachment Usage 317.5 KB
PHP Max Post Size 8.00 MB
PHP Maximum Upload Size 16.00 MB
PHP Memory Limit 8.00 MB [View]
MySQL Version 4.1.22
MySQL Packet Size 10.00 MB


im going too have server owner take a look at things. if you have any clues why pms open blank for me when certain mods are installed together.....

[Lone Gunman]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Are you sure about that? I just looked at them all and not sure how they would contribute. AME doesn't even get fired up as such in Pm's. I just tested out the first one and there doesn't appear to be any conflict and like I said, the others don't really looks like they could interfere. Do you have access to your error log? If so, reproduce the behaviour and look at your error log and that will give the reason why its happening.

youre right. i installed this, live topic and one other on that list on my test board (where nothing else is installed) and didnt have any troubles. ill dig into things more on my board but if you have any suggestions id appreciate it.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by tekguru

Still no go unfortunately, I turned off that option, no difference and then turned off vbSEO completely and I still got:



Sigh..... will have to turn AME back off again. Do you still need the Admin acces to do further tests?

Tek, I suspect this is a different issue. Ill look into it on your site tomorrow. One strange thing though was that none of my posts would appear. Can you make sure that if I post, they... well... post?

Not sure if you have some other mod that prevents people with x amount of posts not showing.

[ArnyVee]

Geek, please keep up the research. I haven't found a solution and this is a pretty big part of my member's interaction.

Go Geek Go! :up: