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

nJoy

[tekguru]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Tek, I suspect this is a different issue. Ill look into it on your site tomorrow. One strange thing though was that none of my posts would appear. Can you make sure that if I post, they... well... post?

Not sure if you have some other mod that prevents people with x amount of posts not showing.

Cheers. The posts did appear as I saw them and the team saw them too. No Mod to prevent posting in place at all. Blinking weird this one!

Anyway let me know what you find out. AME is still disabled so if you pop on to test you'll need to re-enable it.

[lazyseller]

i disabled all my products and than enabled them again and for some reason now my links are embeded.

I dont know what happen and dont care. Its working great so far!

[Lone Gunman]

Originally Posted by lazyseller

i disabled all my products and than enabled them again and for some reason now my links are embeded.

I dont know what happen and dont care. Its working great so far!

might be some of the products use the same plugin hook location and have the same execution order. i was getting some conflicts but after talking with david tried changing the execution order of the plugins and got everything to work. im going to try and reinstall this now and see if i can get it to work with everything else now. i also uninstalled a couple other mods i had and werent using.

[ArnyVee]

Which were the mods with the same plugin hook locations?

I need this mod working or my members are gonna want my head on a platter soon! Sheesh.

[Lone Gunman]

i got to do more testing on my test board. if i disable several of my other mods, this works no prob. with them and this then i get white pages. take this back off and then some of my other mods start conflicting again.

im sure my probs are unrelated to yours arnyvee. my server guy told me that the server is in need of some upgrading which may or may not be related to any of my problems.

disable your other mods one by one and see if this starts working for you. im just lost on where and why it conflicts and seems to react differently on different boards. i know it shares a global_start hook location with several other mods i have and also a template_groups hook location with a couple. it may not just be a single conflict but only when several other conflicting mods are installed with it.

im gonna keep reading this thread and hopefully you guys can teach me somethin cause i know very little about this stuff.

[Lone Gunman]

*update* i dont beleive my problems are directly related to this mod as im not getting any conflicts on my test board and everything works

[Gladhatter]

Some one hit on another valid issue. If you are running 3.81 make sure your server has the latest PHP 5 if possible installed and lastest SQL as well and an Appache Server that also is currrent. Many can move you easily and free if not.

[Lone Gunman]

got it working! i uninstalled all the other mods, started with this, then reinstalled the rest and so far everything works without conflict.

[fenris]

if I try to install - 45 minutes nothing happened. I must interrupt the installation every time from the mod.
when I try the forum during the installation menu, I get an error 500. After I've canceled the installation, must I restart sql server. otherwise the forum can no longer call.
in my forum are 30,000 members and 1.2 million threads. this is too much for this mod?
if I cancel the installation, the database can do harm ?

best regards

frank

[The Geek]

Sounds like you are timing out on adding the flag to the post table. Once thats done, there really isnt a performance hit for the system.

I would suggest installing at a slow time when you can close your board.

HTHs