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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[BrightStar]

Is this gonne get released for version 4 as well?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Nook_Neformat

took fresh ame_bbcode and used notepad - all the same
error says:

that there are no such function "mb_convert_encoding()" so maybe problem is in some other place?

Unlikely. You wouldn't be getting that error if it were something else. To be sure though, have you already replaced that file without edits to see if you continue to get the same error? Do that first if you haven't already. Then try changing 'UTF-8' to 'auto'

Originally Posted by Mike007

Is this gonne get released for version 4 as well?

Almost a month ago.

[Nook_Neformat]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Unlikely. You wouldn't be getting that error if it were something else. To be sure though, have you already replaced that file without edits to see if you continue to get the same error? Do that first if you haven't already. Then try changing 'UTF-8' to 'auto'

yes i tried. this line gets me an error:
$title = unhtmlspecialchars(mb_convert_encoding ($title, 'ISO-8859-2', 'UTF-8' ));

tried auto - the same(

[YAHOME]

<font color="DarkGreen">Hi my dear...

First great thanks for this huge and nice mod ...

now how make it work and embedding media at vBadvanced CMPS pages

because i try many times and nothing be appear !

please help me i need it so much at my vBadvanced CMPS pages

tell me what to do ....</font>

[MagicThemeParks]

Originally Posted by MWRD

now how make it work and embedding media at vBadvanced CMPS pages

I saw this over at vBadvanced.com: http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23417

Hope it helps! :up:

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Nook_Neformat

yes i tried. this line gets me an error:
$title = unhtmlspecialchars(mb_convert_encoding ($title, 'ISO-8859-2', 'UTF-8' ));

tried auto - the same(

You might want to check this out, then:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/redire...f.mbstring.php

mbstring is a non-default extension. This means it is not enabled by default. You must explicitly enable the module with the configure option. See the install section for details.

In that case, you would need to talk to your host.

Originally Posted by MWRD

Hi my dear...

First great thanks for this huge and nice mod ...

now how make it work and embedding media at vBadvanced CMPS pages

because i try many times and nothing be appear !

please help me i need it so much at my vBadvanced CMPS pages

tell me what to do ....

Specifically, what method are you using to try and put it in a CMPS page? If you're using a module, then all you need to use is embed code. AME isn't needed or practical in that case. On the other hand, if you're pulling posts from the forum, then AME already works with those modules.

In both cases, however, you need to make sure there are enough characters displayed before the [Read More] link. Otherwise your embed code will be truncated before it can display.

[YAHOME]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

You might want to check this out, then:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/redire...f.mbstring.php

In that case, you would need to talk to your host.


Specifically, what method are you using to try and put it in a CMPS page? If you're using a module, then all you need to use is embed code. AME isn't needed or practical in that case. On the other hand, if you're pulling posts from the forum, then AME already works with those modules.

In both cases, however, you need to make sure there are enough characters displayed before the [Read More] link. Otherwise your embed code will be truncated before it can display.

Hi i wanna to follow easy way :

there is an option in vBadvanced 3.2.1 CP called

Portal Output Global Variables

and this is its description content

If you have other hacks installed (especially to hacks located within the vBulletin navbar), it may be necessary to globalize some of the variables used in those hacks for the CMPS. You may enter a list of variables to globalize here. It is NOT necessary to add the $ mark before the variable name. Separate each variable with a carriage return (new line).

and i put for example navbaravatar to enable this mod at my navbar in vBadvanced

so i try a lot of names to AME embedding and i get nothing only a line at the theards that

it have many videos and work at forum and not work at vBadvanced first page ...

so what is the right variable to put ? and yes i pulling topics from the forum and the topic apear an only line !

and if this method not work can you please explain how i make it work by making a module

and what code i put on it ?

the characters before / read more / now its 1000 characters

i`m glad for your great support ... thanks so much .

Originally Posted by MagicThemeParks

I saw this over at vBadvanced.com: http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23417

Hope it helps! :up:

nice support from you my dear i looking on it now and will tell you the result

[Nook_Neformat]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

You might want to check this out, then:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/redire...f.mbstring.php

In that case, you would need to talk to your host.

we installed this definition, the error doesnt show anymore, but instead of russian titles it shows "?????"
maybe there are some ways to customize this definition or something else?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by MWRD

Hi i wanna to follow easy way :

there is an option in vBadvanced 3.2.1 CP called

Portal Output Global Variables

and this is its description content

If you have other hacks installed (especially to hacks located within the vBulletin navbar), it may be necessary to globalize some of the variables used in those hacks for the CMPS. You may enter a list of variables to globalize here. It is NOT necessary to add the $ mark before the variable name. Separate each variable with a carriage return (new line).

and i put for example navbaravatar to enable this mod at my navbar in vBadvanced

so i try a lot of names to AME embedding and i get nothing only a line at the theards that

it have many videos and work at forum and not work at vBadvanced first page ...

so what is the right variable to put ? and yes i pulling topics from the forum and the topic apear an only line !

and if this method not work can you please explain how i make it work by making a module

and what code i put on it ?

the characters before / read more / now its 1000 characters

i`m glad for your great support ... thanks so much .



nice support from you my dear i looking on it now and will tell you the result

You don't need any for AME. Whatever appears in a post, appears in a module. 1000 characters is nice, but you're forgetting that the character count is going to include everything in the HTML of the post. 1000 characters will get eaten up pretty quick. I had to set mine up at 1500 before I anything showed up, so try larger numbers. Go really big and then trim down from there.

Originally Posted by Nook_Neformat

we installed this definition, the error doesnt show anymore, but instead of russian titles it shows "?????"
maybe there are some ways to customize this definition or something else?

What language are you trying to convert it to, again? ISO/IEC 8859-2 is for only for certain languages. You need to find the right character encoding.

[Nook_Neformat]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

What language are you trying to convert it to, again? ISO/IEC 8859-2 is for only for certain languages. You need to find the right character encoding.

man, thank you for your time. i get it and now it works
good luck to you