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

[weindians]

So that means , deleting the vimeo definitions before upgrade to 2.5.7 didnt work? , when i deleted those definitions, why the merging happen when imported 2.5.7 with overwrite. Do you think deleting didnt happen on server side and vimeo code in 2.5.7 happened to go into 2ksports definition and hide the vimeo in definition list? , then in 2.5.6 deleting definitions was not working properly.. so far no hiccups, may be b'coz i deleted that 2ksports definition already and imported vimeo separate and got it working as it should...

sorry for 2k.com , google gave me 2k.com and forum.2k.com for 2ksports videos search 'term'. i donno or use that , so no idea where the videos are... anyway i got it fixed and somebody else had same problem , thought of sharing ....

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by joeychgo

not working for me then -- other youtube links work but not the plain url

I tested the link to your Battleship video, and it embedded fine on my installation. By "other links", what type of links are you referring to?

Originally Posted by weindians

So that means , deleting the vimeo definitions before upgrade to 2.5.7 didnt work? , when i deleted those definitions, why the merging happen when imported 2.5.7 with overwrite. Do you think deleting didnt happen on server side and vimeo code in 2.5.7 happened to go into 2ksports definition and hide the vimeo in definition list? , then in 2.5.6 deleting definitions was not working properly..

No, not at all. What likely happened is when you originally imported the 2K Sports definition the ID number created (ID numbers are how definitions are distinguished in the database) was coincidentally the same as the Vimeo definition that would one day be created during upgrade. AME tries to uninstall any definitions with the same ID numbers as the default set, but it probably missed it because it didn't have the same key. So when it added Vimeo to the database, it simply merged it into existing definition with the same ID. In this case, the 2K Sports def. This shouldn't happen too often, but if I see it reoccuring again, I'll try to adjust the upgrade code to avoid this.

[joeychgo]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

I tested the link to your Battleship video, and it embedded fine on my installation. By "other links", what type of links are you referring to?

If I just use the plain url for the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b4mVfTZ-XI) it doesn't come up on the forum, I just get a link.

See: http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/...d.php?t=271282

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by joeychgo

If I just use the plain url for the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b4mVfTZ-XI) it doesn't come up on the forum, I just get a link.

See: http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/...d.php?t=271282

I see you have the Short URL definition from my repository thread. Do you still have the default YouTube definition that came with AME? This is the one that embeds regular YouTube links.

[joeychgo]

I think so -- how do I know? I have one that says You Tube, YouTube (Short URL), YouTube (Playlists), YouTube Playlists (Old)

[Digital Jedi]

It just says YouTube. Check to see if it's toggled on.

[joeychgo]

active, contain extract all checked... Display order 10

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by joeychgo

active, contain extract all checked... Display order 10

What version of AME are you running? Superficially, this sounds like AME 2.5.6.

[joeychgo]

2.5.7 -- just upgraded. Double checked to make sure

[yotsume]

<font size="3">SSL Certificate Fix:</font>

If your forum is encrypted by a SSL certificate making your entire site secure and using https... You will need to change every definition you use to hard code in https rather then http.

By default the definitions are http so this will show videos on your forum as blank space.

Easy fix! DONE! Now this MOD works on my secure forum.

Instructions for this maybe should be included in the ReadMe...