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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[Kanustep]

Today this error appear to me:

PHP Code:

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

Warning: include() [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 


Is there any suggestion that could fix this? This only appear each time people try to post on "redirection window", without need to include AME on the post.

[DavidBrown]

I have no clue how to add this. Vbulletin is vastly inferior to phpbb. Everything on phpbb could be done with the click of a mouse or through tech support, not ridiculous downloads with coding that I don't even understand nor know how to use.

If anybody can help me I would appreciate it. I'm extremely frustrated right now because I spend hours on the phone every day with VB over things that could be accomplished in seconds on phpbb.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by DavidBrown

I have no clue how to add this. Vbulletin is vastly inferior to phpbb. Everything on phpbb could be done with the click of a mouse or through tech support, not ridiculous downloads with coding that I don't even understand nor know how to use.

If anybody can help me I would appreciate it. I'm extremely frustrated right now because I spend hours on the phone every day with VB over things that could be accomplished in seconds on phpbb.

There's no coding required to install this. The instructions for a New Install are included in the ZIP file in the Readme text. Only three steps, one of which is downloading the ZIP file.

[testbot]

Originally Posted by DavidBrown

I have no clue how to add this. Vbulletin is vastly inferior to phpbb. Everything on phpbb could be done with the click of a mouse or through tech support, not ridiculous downloads with coding that I don't even understand nor know how to use.

If anybody can help me I would appreciate it. I'm extremely frustrated right now because I spend hours on the phone every day with VB over things that could be accomplished in seconds on phpbb.

nothing can touch vBulletin when it comes to customizing things. phpbb is good for someone that doesn't care about their site.

that's kinda crazy to say something is inferior just because you don't know how to use something or your use to using a different system. kinda makes you look like an a$$.

i've used all the major forum software and yes there is a slight learning curve with vbulletin but it's far superior to the rest.

just my opinion.

[The Dawg]

Originally Posted by The Dawg

Noob question.

Previously I had HTML enabled. Is there a tool I can use via AdminCP, Shell, etc to search and replace all posts? Even if it worked just for YouTube it would be great.

* I searched this mod and did not see these questions answered.

Thanks.

Anyone?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by The Dawg

Anyone?

No, not with the AME tools. That would only replace BBCode. I'm afraid that would all have to be done manually, post by post.

[The Dawg]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

No, not with the AME tools. That would only replace BBCode. I'm afraid that would all have to be done manually, post by post.

Thanks, I figured out a way to convert most of them using cleaner from within IMPEX/tools.

[yahoooh]

i use curl
just to know is if (function_exists("curl_int")) = if (function_exists("curl_init"))

if it is bug plz tell me

[yahoooh]

it is bug after i change it dailymotion work and others also i still test others links

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by yahoooh

i use curl
just to know is if (function_exists("curl_int")) = if (function_exists("curl_init"))

if it is bug plz tell me

Funnily enough, I caught this while working on the new version just the other day. Since it hadn't been mentioned it was just going to be a silent change