Major Additions - DJ's AME :: The Ultimate Automatic Media Embedder :: 2.5.7

From the team who brought you the blockbuster film "Yahtzee!", comes the next major motion picture about incredibly bad and arbitrary puns:

AME 2.5.7: Electric Boogaloo

AME automatically embeds media in posts without the need for pesky BBCode cluttering up your editor toolbar. It's also lightweight, and saves resources that BBCode would ordinarily consume. Your users don't even have to know you have AME installed. If they share a link from YouTube, Dailymotion, Amazon, Metacafe or Vimeo, AME automatically embeds the content for them. No special code to learn. No instructions for newbies to understand.

In addition, AME allows you to create, import and export support for individual websites in the form of media definitions. These XML files expand your AME to support a limitless number of websites from around the net and let you share them with the community. We currently have around 200 media definitions collected at this repository thread. If you want additional support for website not listed, please ask for it there. Odds are, we might already have one. (TIP: Be sure to check the Add-Ons section below for stuff you might miss out on, otherwise.)


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CREDITS

This modification was originally built by [name]The Geek[/name], who is no longer coding for vBulletin. We miss him. But he gave permission for someone to continue to build upon his work. All I've done is modify the code a little to support additional functionality and to provide a place to continue to support the product. The product didn't need too much tweaking, but I did manage to add some new features I think you will enjoy, which I'll lay out in the feature list below.

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RECOMMENDATIONS

It is HIGHLY recommended that you read the READ ME.html file included in the ZIP file before you upgrade or install. You don't want to be blind-sided, now do you?


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NEW INSTALLATIONS

1. Download and Unzip the contents of the ZIP file.
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2. Upload the contents of the "UPLOAD to Forum Root" folder to your forum's root directory. (This is the directory where your vBulletin is physically installed.) Also, if you've renamed your Admin CP folder, be sure to move the admincp folder's contents to your renamed directory.
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3. CHMOD your amecache folder to 777.
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4. Go to your Admin CP ?? Plugins & Products ?? Manage Products ?? Add/Import Products and import the product-djs_AME-2.5.7.xml file.
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5. Your Admin CP should automatically refresh and you should now see the AME CP somewhere below your vBulletin Options menu.

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TO UPGRADE

If you are upgrading from AME 2.5.6.

1. Delete custom definitions specifically for Amazon, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Vimeo and YouTube. (Key names: amazon, dailymotion, metacafe, vimeo and youtube) Theses five definitions are now hard coded into the product and will be updated along with the product if need be. You can back these up if you need to, but keep in mind if you use any custom defs for these sites, they will be duplicated every time you upgrade AME. So don't ask my why your videos are doubled up, or I'll throw rocks at you.
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2. Upload the contents of the "UPLOAD to Forum Root" folder to your forum's root directory, overwriting previous versions of the files.
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3. Ensure that your amecache directory is still CHMOD'd to 777.
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4. Import the product-djs_AME-2.5.7.xml file into your Product Manager, making sure to set the option to Allow Overwrite to Yes.
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5. If you are using the file cache, it is strongly recommended that you re-sync your cache using the Tools menu.

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WHAT ELSE?

The following five posts will include:

• Additional Screenshots
• Full Features List
• FAQ
• Resources to develop your own custom definitions
• AME History/Changelog

[lowlight]

Is there a way to embed remotely hosted files, similar to how the locally hosted embedding works?

[original'as]

I can't delete some of DJ AME definitions, after selecting definitions to be deleted or not active and clicking save, it show display order saved, but doesn't do anything all settings stays the same. Any ideas?

I have moved my VPS recently, set new location for amecache and 777.

[mykkal]

I don't suppose there is a version that will work on vb5? We just upgraded and this is the one mod we didn't check

[ozzy47]

Nope, there is nothing like this for vB5.

[mykkal]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

Nope, there is nothing like this for vB5.

Damn so everyone that used AME for years is SOL now? That sucks... is here at least a way to transfer the embed code back to url form so there aren't weird characters and other things showing in old posts?

VB software kinda sucks now

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by mykkal

Damn so everyone that used AME for years is SOL now? That sucks... is here at least a way to transfer the embed code back to url form so there aren't weird characters and other things showing in old posts?

VB software kinda sucks now

Alot of people revert to vB 4, which you can download from your members area at vbulletin dot com. Seen it done. Here most recently.

Edit: Just a heads up.

Installation automatically rewrote all of my Amazon links to use DJ's affiliate ID. Using the tools to revert them, all of the URLs were no longer hotlinks, just raw text. I have to restore from a backup to undo this, because Amazon is a big revenue provider for my forum. Uninstalling the product and using the tool basically nuked several years of affiliated links from my site.

[creativepart]

Looking at the XML file for this mod the only Amazon coding I see is to format Amazon Video services. What is the AF ID you are seeing being applied?

I should have been more specific - this mod, plus the definitions:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....03&postcount=3

Amazon.com (Thumbnails) and (Links): The original Thumbnail version of the Amazon Links was created by nevetS in one of the old XML threads and it was the first definitions created to demonstrate turning product links into thumbnails rather then links.

Note that I have also included my affiliate IDs in these definitions, mainly because these are constructed on my live site. To work in your own affiliate ID in either the Links or Thumbnails definitions, look for the instances of the ?tag= in theReplacement HTMLand replace the following IDs with your own. Or, again, you can leave them in. Won't hurt my feelings.

I should have RTFP'd a bit better, heh. Uninstalling it, like I said, rewrote all of the URLs back to normal but none of them were actually parsed as links anymore. So I had hundreds of posts with amazon links that weren't click-able links anymore. Not fun.

[creativepart]

So, it was the one of the definitions - I'm not using his definitions package.