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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[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Alan_SP

Ok, problem is when I'm importing all definitions from one file, it imported only first ones up to "Daily HaHa (Funny Pictures)"

It said it worked like a charm, but it hasn't. Others are skipped, or something. They aren't there...

But when I start to manually import one by one definition, I can import them. And they work ok.

How to import all definitions in one go? Is there something I should change in php.ini file and where should I put this changed php.ini file? Has anybody idea? It's vB3.8.4

Not too sure here. Sounds like the script is either timing out or there is an error in one of the definitions that you are importing on the large file.

Originally Posted by testbot

i'm not sure how the rebuild under tools works. if i make a change to an existing definition how to i rebuild all the old posts that are using the old definition to reflect this new change.

You shouldn't have to. The only time you won't see the change is if the post you are looking at is cached in the postparsed table.

Originally Posted by Defkalion

I have the same problem, does anyone know if there is a fix? If not, is there a way to disable the AME product in just this googlemapsme page? It's just one php file.

I can only take a guess here and say that it is the javascript that AME includes. I haven't tried this, but if you do not hide AME from certain usergroups, try disabling the AME : Permission Hide hook.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by khashabawy

How Could I :-)

can you try solving it ??

this mod doesn't confilct with it and works for 3.8.x perfectly

Isn't this attachment passive video? If so, it needs to be uninstalled for AME to work.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by influence

how do u uninstall this mod? I am getting this error whenever I try
...

Fixed in 2.5.6

Just import the latest product-ame.xml and then uninstall it.

[testbot]

can you go into the details on the last step for the upgrade

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.

there's a lot of options for that last step.

[testbot]

Originally Posted by The Geek

You shouldn't have to. The only time you won't see the change is if the post you are looking at is cached in the postparsed table.

how do we update the postparsed table?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by testbot

can you go into the details on the last step for the upgrade

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.


there's a lot of options for that last step.

The last step is optional (mainly for new installations). Admincp > AME CP > Tools > Rebuild: posts, blogs, etc...

That allows you to ame'fy old posts, blogs, etc...

Originally Posted by testbot

how do we update the postparsed table?

If you have mysql access, you can run the following SQL:

PHP Code:

TRUNCATE TABLE postparsed 


Though I would only recommend that you do this if you know what you're doing.

HTHs

[Kolbi]

After upgrading and trying to rebuild cache I get this message:

Settings.... saving nothing more then... settings. Trying hard not to forgeeet youuu...

What does it mean?

[testbot]

it means (s)he's in love

[testbot]

Originally Posted by The Geek

The last step is optional (mainly for new installations). Admincp > AME CP > Tools > Rebuild: posts, blogs, etc...

That allows you to ame'fy old posts, blogs, etc...



If you have mysql access, you can run the following SQL:

PHP Code:

TRUNCATE TABLE postparsed 


Though I would only recommend that you do this if you know what you're doing.

HTHs

ok, last question i hope. lol

is postparsed used for ame? just wanna make sure nothing else uses it before i truncate it.

i'll do a backup first but it shouldn't be a big deal to truncate a table. thanks.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by testbot

ok, last question i hope. lol

is postparsed used for ame? just wanna make sure nothing else uses it before i truncate it.

i'll do a backup first but it shouldn't be a big deal to truncate a table. thanks.

postparsed is a cache for recent vB posts.

Depending on your settings, vB will save the contents of a post after it has processed the BBcode a short period of time. This way, vB can save time processing recent posts. Preparsed contains these recent processed posts. Emptying the table out just means that vB will need to re-cache those recent posts again.