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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[Drago13]

oooookay.. now it should let you... thanks for you patience and quick response...

[Digital Jedi]

Yup, I can see them now. You're variables are not parsing for some reason. Looking at the source code, all you're quotes are escaped. The Geek might have to tackle this one.

[Drago13]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Yup, I can see them now. You're variables are not parsing for some reason. Looking at the source code, all you're quotes are escaped. The Geek might have to tackle this one.

Thanks for trying... ;( It seems like it stopped after I updated...

Update... I figured out what was wrong.. Thanks DJ.. When you said "parsed" a light bulb went off.. I remembered some code i had changed because one of my threads was messing up.. fixed now.. again thanks...

[testebr]

Originally Posted by The Geek

On a side note, the next version allows you to override size settings per definition and includes a test bed to test, troubleshoot and develop definitions. I will most likely wait until vb4.0 before releasing though.

Originally Posted by testebr

How to fix accentuation fail on title?

Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc9GgqcfoQo

Thanks

If possible check for it in next release

Ps: ISO-8859-1 charset on my board .

[Ohiosweetheart]

I was getting these errors after upgrading vB to 3.8.4, and now after updating this mod, I'm still getting the same errors -

Warning: include(/home/admin/public_html/amecache/ameinfo.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 80

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/home/admin/public_html/amecache/ameinfo.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in [path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 80

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Empty regular expression in [path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 711

any ideas?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Ohiosweetheart

I was getting these errors after upgrading vB to 3.8.4, and now after updating this mod, I'm still getting the same errors -

Warning: include(/home/admin/public_html/amecache/ameinfo.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 80

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/home/admin/public_html/amecache/ameinfo.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in [path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 80

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Empty regular expression in [path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 711

any ideas?

I think you're missing the aminfo.php file or it's in the wrong place.

[Kits2gr]

Hello, I think you have a great product here but I need assistant on installing it to my forum. We followed the direction and installed everything. But when ever I hit new post, this error shows up:

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in............

Any idea why? everything else seems to work fine except when people are clicking new post or trying to reply.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Kits2gr

Hello, I think you have a great product here but I need assistant on installing it to my forum. We followed the direction and installed everything. But when ever I hit new post, this error shows up:



Any idea why? everything else seems to work fine except when people are clicking new post or trying to reply.

Usually that means files are missing. Make sure you put everything in the proper location.

[Kits2gr]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Usually that means files are missing. Make sure you put everything in the proper location.

I checked everything and seems to be there. Here's a screen shot of the files:



and all the files from admincp to xml are there. What I did notice is that we have another forums folder right below customprofilepics which contains the same file as the highlighted forums folder. Do you think that can be causing interference?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Kits2gr

I checked everything and seems to be there. Here's a screen shot of the files:



and all the files from admincp to xml are there. What I did notice is that we have another forums folder right below customprofilepics which contains the same file as the highlighted forums folder. Do you think that can be causing interference?

What it appears you've done, is you've put the upload folder by itself inside the forums folder.

You're supposed to overwrite your existing forums folder with the forums folder from the ZIP file. This will put all the AME files in the correct place.