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 Spinball

Went to install this product on AVForums.com 3.8.2

The page never finished loading and the MySAL server crashed.
Hardly surprising since it adds a field to the post table. Why on earth would it do that? We have over 12 million posts. No wonder it crashed the server.

I would suggest that a note during install to say it alters the post table would be essential.

[Edit] - ok, my host brought the server back and I installed again and it's fine (with the DJ's xml imported) except I just put in a link to a youtube video and the text is put infront of the embedded video. Any ideas what's happening?

It alters the post table because you can enable or disable embedding for every single post, therefore it is logical to add a field to the post table.

It puts the [ame=...] bbcode around the embedded videos because that is how it was programmed to work- and it works well. Never had a problem with this mod.

The real question is- why have you waited so long before installing?

[Fynnon]

thanks, using [ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=xxx"]Tutorial[/ ame] works

[Digital Jedi]

Okay guys, I decided I'm going to go ahead and re-release AME 2.5 as well as AME 3 with some minor fixes and enhancements. The Geek released this to the wild right before he left developing for vB, so hopefully I can take this, learn from it, and move it to the next level. AME 2.6 (or whatever I decide to call it) will be released first, and AME 3.x will come out sometime later. No ETA, but I thought you'd like a heads up.

[BirdOPrey5]

Any idea on what changes you are thinking of, or just to get everything together in a new thread?

[Digital Jedi]

Primarily, I'd be getting the stuff together and updating the two default definitions so they aren't always outdated. I also have a list of small tweaks I want to work on for 2.5. Things like a toggle for people using different encoding, unless I can figure a way to globalize that in the PHP code. (Didn't have much luck with that last time I tried.) A few style enhancements, some additional help in the Admin CP, a place card for code that posts via JavaScript, user agent detection. I think this version is stable enough that it doesn't need a major overhaul, but it was missing some minor details.

I'd also like definitions with the same key to overwrite, but I'll have to look at The Geek's code more closely before I know if that's a major rewrite or not.

[texasasl]

Hi guys does anyone know how to embed .flv files in a post ???
Thanks in advance

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by texasasl

Hi guys does anyone know how to embed .flv files in a post ???
Thanks in advance

Please see my XML definitions in the Add On section of the first post..

[BirdOPrey5]

I wonder if anyone has some ideas on this... I (and a few others) are trying to get AME to work on posts that are made via an RSS feed.

For example if you have a youtube RSS feed you need to "edit" and "save" each post for the video to actually embed.

I am close to solving this, I think, but still not working.

I have edited the file rssposter.php in the includes/cron/ directory... Since there are no hooks.

Find this code:

PHP Code:

                        $rsslog_insert_sql[] = "($item[rssfeedid], $itemid, '$itemtype', '" . $vbulletin->db->escape_string($uniquehash) . "', '" . $vbulletin->db->escape_string($item['contenthash']) . "', " . TIMENOW . ", $threadactiontime)";
                        $cronlog_items["$item[rssfeedid]"][] = "\t<li>$vbphrase[$itemtype] <a href=\"$itemlink\" target=\"logview\"><em>$itemtitle</em></a></li>";
                    } 


And right after it add:

PHP Code:

//Set AME Flag Start
      require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions.php');
       $amethread = fetch_threadinfo($itemid);
          $postid = $amethread['firstpostid'];
          
          $post = fetch_postinfo($postid);
          
          $post['message'] = $post['pagetext'];
          
          require_once(DIR . '/includes/ame_bbcode.php');
          $value = ame_prep_text($post['message']);
          echo $post['message'];
          if ($value == 1)
          {
                  $vbulletin->db->query_write("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post SET pagetext ='" . $vbulletin->db->escape_string($post['message']) . "', ame_flag=1 WHERE postid=$post[postid]");
          }
          else if ($value == 2)
          {
                  $vbulletin->db->query_write("UPDATE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post SET pagetext ='" . $vbulletin->db->escape_string($post['message']) . "', ame_flag=1 WHERE postid=$post[postid]");
          }
 //Set AME Flag End 


This code will set the ame_flag to "1" in the database for the post but for some reason does NOT change the [url] bbcode to [ame]...

I use the same query for both value ==1 and ==2 because "2" I believe disables AME in the post, which I don't want- I will assume for every RSS post I want it enabled, so I set the flag to 1 in both cases.

Is there something else I am missing? Do I need to run something else besides ame_prep_text?

Maybe there is supposed to be some difference between $post[message] and $post[pagetext] that I am missing... ?

[Artes_Marciales]

suggestion for the future updates...
support for videos from http://clips.team-andro.com/
Thanks!! : D

[texasasl]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Please see my XML definitions in the Add On section of the first post..

I've seen all xml definitions but I cannot find the extension for .flv there is only extension for .swf.
Is there anyway to modify it by only replacing the .swf with .flv in the code??

Thanks in advance