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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[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Jennifer Marx

HELP! I messed something up badly. I uploaded the product via the Product Manager, got the "Adding index to post table. Please standy by.... this bit can take a few..." and then nothing happened. And now my entire message board is down with a database error. I am running 3.8. Ugh, I need to undo what I did! Someone please help, anyone. I'm desperate.

Can you post the exact error message you are getting? I'm sure that will help people who know about this mod to help quicker. (or a link to your forum?)

Nevermind, I see your homepage in your profile... the error is:

<!--

Database error in vBulletin :



mysql_connect() [&lt;a href='function.mysql-connect'&gt;function.mysql-connect&lt;/a&gt;]: Can't create a new thread (errno 12); if you are not out of available memory, you can consult the manual for a possible OS-dependent bug

D:\Domains\passporter.com\wwwroot\forums\includes\class_core.php on line 311



MySQL Error   : 

Error Number  : 

Request Date  : Tuesday, January 11th 2011 @ 10:38:10 AM

Error Date    : Tuesday, January 11th 2011 @ 10:38:10 AM

Script        : http://www.passporterboards.com/forums/index.php

Referrer      : https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=2147526

IP Address    : xxxxx

Username      : 

Classname     : vb_database

MySQL Version : 

-->

[BirdOPrey5]

Are you on shared hosting? is it possible you were close to your disk space or database max and this mod put you over the edge? Do you have some way to check available memory/disk space?

[Jennifer Marx]

THANK YOU, BirdOPrey5 for your quick reply! I shortly discovered that all my other MySQL databases were offline as well, which meant I'd crashed MySQL. A restart of the MySQL service is all I needed. My apologies for the panic, but thank you again!

[angeljs]

I was wondering if it would be possible to use this with another mod, such as vBdynamics. What do I have to edit to make it work, or would it be too difficult?

Thanks

[Quickness]

Hello,

I recently updated to vB4, and now I continue to get this error when I try to edit some posts.

Invalid SQL:
SELECT id FROM ame_disabled_posts WHERE id=235740 and typeid=1;

MySQL Error   : Table 'vb40.ame_disabled_posts' doesn't exist
Error Number  : 1146
Request Date  : Sunday, January 16th 2011 @ 06:10:38 PM
Error Date    : Sunday, January 16th 2011 @ 06:10:38 PM
Script        : http://www.@@@.com/forums/editpost.php?do=updatepost&postid=235740
Referrer      : http://www.@@@.com/forums/showthread.php?21172-Gear-check
IP Address    : @@@@@
Username      : Quick
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 4.1.22-standard

Any idea what is happening?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by angeljs

I was wondering if it would be possible to use this with another mod, such as vBdynamics. What do I have to edit to make it work, or would it be too difficult?

Thanks

I don't have vBDynamics myself, but I do have vBAdvanced and it works fine with it. I don't know how vBD works, or if uses the same database tables as posting or what have you. It would depend on that and if the BBCode parser and basic vBulletin hooks are used during the process of posting.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Quickness

Hello,

I recently updated to vB4, and now I continue to get this error when I try to edit some posts.

Invalid SQL:
SELECT id FROM ame_disabled_posts WHERE id=235740 and typeid=1;

MySQL Error   : Table 'vb40.ame_disabled_posts' doesn't exist
Error Number  : 1146
Request Date  : Sunday, January 16th 2011 @ 06:10:38 PM
Error Date    : Sunday, January 16th 2011 @ 06:10:38 PM
Script        : http://www.@@@.com/forums/editpost.php?do=updatepost&postid=235740
Referrer      : http://www.@@@.com/forums/showthread.php?21172-Gear-check
IP Address    : @@@@@
Username      : Quick
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 4.1.22-standard

Any idea what is happening?

As far as I know, AME 2.5 isn't compatible with vB4. You would need to see if you can upgrade to AME 3 do with the handful of built-in definitions for it.

[Quickness]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

As far as I know, AME 2.5 isn't compatible with vB4. You would need to see if you can upgrade to AME 3 do with the handful of built-in definitions for it.

The thing is, I don't even have AME installed anymore.

[Quickness]

Originally Posted by Quickness

The thing is, I don't even have AME installed anymore.

Odd, I had to comment out

PHP Code:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/ame_prep.php'); 
/$providers = ame_data_preparse($pagetext); 


from includes/functions_video.php

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Quickness

The thing is, I don't even have AME installed anymore.

Originally Posted by Quickness

Odd, I had to comment out

PHP Code:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/ame_prep.php'); 
/$providers = ame_data_preparse($pagetext); 


from includes/functions_video.php

Apparently, you had made the temporary fix for AME 3 that The Geek has posted in that thread: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=608