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

[Digital Jedi]

It remains to be seen whether it will support media to the degree that AME can. If anything, vB emulates modification functionality, but rarely duplicates it to a great extent.

[testbot]

Request: Exclude from Styleid

this messes with our mobile site. it would be nice to exclude our mobile style.

thx

[Gamelobby]

Love this Mod, but i recently installed a mod called "Garage" and was wondering how to go about getting Photobucket (or any videos) to work in it.?

Garage Mod - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=216529

I'm wondering if it is their mod that is stopping it, or this mod that needs to be adapted to work in that section.

Thanks.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by testbot

Request: Exclude from Styleid

this messes with our mobile site. it would be nice to exclude our mobile style.

thx

AME uses templates, so all you would need to do is edit the template in that mobile style to display whatever you wanted.

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Love this Mod, but i recently installed a mod called "Garage" and was wondering how to go about getting Photobucket (or any videos) to work in it.?

Garage Mod - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=216529

I'm wondering if it is their mod that is stopping it, or this mod that needs to be adapted to work in that section.

Thanks.

It depends on what URL strings the modification uses, but I can look into it.

[testbot]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

AME uses templates, so all you would need to do is edit the template in that mobile style to display whatever you wanted.

i don't see "clientscript/ame.js" in the template. is it in a plugin? either way, it would just be nice to have a field in the settings that says exclude styleid or something. not a big deal. just a wish maybe.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by testbot

i don't see "clientscript/ame.js" in the template. is it in a plugin? either way, it would just be nice to have a field in the settings that says exclude styleid or something. not a big deal. just a wish maybe.

You wouldn't need to do anything to the JS file. Just replace the contents of the AME template with something simple, like a link to the video.

[testbot]

i'm not sure if i'm getting you or not. the clientscript/ame.js is in the <head> tags which can cause problems on some mobile phones that can't handle javascript.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by testbot

i'm not sure if i'm getting you or not. the clientscript/ame.js is in the <head> tags which can cause problems on some mobile phones that can't handle javascript.

I can't claim to know all about mobile phone browsers, however if you look at the js file, it is one function that toggles the hiding/unhiding of the media based on usergroup permissons. Simply edit the ame_output template of your mobile style to be:

<a href="$ameinfo[url]" />$ameinfo[title]</a>

And there will be nothing for the js to do. If you do that, I would edit the mobiles ame_container template and delete all the HTML in it (so its an empty template)

That should do you fine.

[iguano]

In my forum works only YouTube link, the rest ... nothing

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by iguano

In my forum works only YouTube link, the rest ... nothing

AME only comes with youtube and amazon. If any custom definitions aren't working, contact their author.

HTHs