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

[Gadget_Guy]

I am running

PHP 5.2.17

vBulletin 3.8.7

I have already disabled the entire plugin for the time being

D.

[Gadget_Guy]

One further question,

Once we get this working, Will I need to upload any deltas or does this version have everything up to date at this point?

D.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Gadget_Guy

I am running

PHP 5.2.17

vBulletin 3.8.7

I have already disabled the entire plugin for the time being



D.

I think I can push out a correction for the problem here in a few. Seems it was a minor oversight on my part.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Gadget_Guy

One further question,

Once we get this working, Will I need to upload any deltas or does this version have everything up to date at this point?

D.

Other than deleting the five definitions I mention in the install instructions, you don't need to add anything new unless you want to. The "Delta" thread will be updated (and renamed), hopefully today, with quite a few new definitions, particularly to take advantage of AME's new functionality. But that is, as always, optional. The five default definitions will always be kept up-to-date, since I can do that from my end now. And they'll be excluded from the big Master list in my other thread.

[Gadget_Guy]

Excellent!

Thanks!

[Digital Jedi]

Ack, give me a few more. My host apparently decided I don't really need a website right now. So I can't test my changes. I'll have to pester them to get me back online. Shared hosting. -_-

[Gadget_Guy]

No worries.

Thanks for the update.

[Digital Jedi]

|[UPDATE]|

• Minor update which should fix the problem for anyone getting mysql_escape_string errors.
• Fixed a couple of places where I used the same word too many times. It was bugging me.

[Gadget_Guy]

Thanks!

Seems to be working just fine for me now!

Can't thank you enough!

D.

[Gadget_Guy]

Sorry to bug you again,

Youtube videos are not embedding for me.

https://www.toronto-subaru-club.com/...-vehicles.html

The first post has a Youtube URL but is just showing the link... not the video


D.