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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[fenris]

Hy,

I try the installation today at 5 clock morning.
i have closed the board, but it will the same effect. i wait 30 minutes but nothing happens - after the 30 minutes i cancelled the installation with the browswer"stop" button. After the break, i must restart the mysql server again.
can i anything do, thats the installation works ? how long does it take to install the normally

best regards

frank

[Gladhatter]

Frank have you considered archiving some old threads and/or pruning non active members? Do you have all the latest PHP and SQL for your server? Seems you are on a dedictated server and you have the power to do what you wish.

[fenris]

Hy,

i have the a dedicated servers from the hoster gator ( the bigegst one ). the php and the sql are the latest. i have round about 32000 members - i dont now, how many members are active - i think, i have 10000 - 150000 active members on board.
must i delete the inactive members ?

best regards

Frank

[Gladhatter]

Originally Posted by fenris

Hy,

i have the a dedicated servers from the hoster gator ( the bigegst one ). the php and the sql are the latest. i have round about 32000 members - i dont now, how many members are active - i think, i have 10000 - 150000 active members on board.
must i delete the inactive members ?

best regards

Frank

My best guess is you do not have to do anything you do not wish but you may wish to consider a few things. One is that regardless of what the people whom code up programs say, there are limitations to them like anything else has limitations. Huge Data bases simply become less stable in my experience. Now saying that I do not have a lot of experience here. Still if you can segergate parts of the community off it may be better for all. You can have a coder set you up a seperate database that holds archived threads and also inactive members and not delete any of them but simply put them in a new catagory.

Have you ran your data base tools as well to clean up glitches and such or find errors in the data base query section of your forum?

The reason my coder has been AWOL for such a time is that he and a team are working to correct a 2 Gig Data base that is corrupted and you may well have just minor glitches in yours that caught now could save you worlds of trouble later on.

[Brood]

i seem to have run into a problem with this and editing usergroups. every time i edit a usergroup, a new one is created instead of old one being saved. i have to remove bitfield_automediaembed.xml to get usergroups to save properly.

using ame 2.5.0 (updated to 2.5.4 same problem) and vb 3.8.1

[Teresa]

I just upgraded to 3.8.1. Then added this addon. Then installed the latest vb-Blog 2.0.1 Patch Level 1.

In blog post this happened:

Major trouble: Invalid SQL. UPDATE vb3_blog_text set ame_flag=0 Where ....
Unknown column 'ame_flag' ...
error 1054.

Then the forum really started acting up.

Had to de-activate AME and forum went back to normal.

[demoniavbh]

This zip doesn't have all the files in amechache, there's only the index....

[joh]

I was just chaning the settings in the user groups and when I hit save I get this error,

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'automediaembed_edit_permissions' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Tuesday, February 17th 2009 @ 09:14:56 PM
Error Date : Tuesday, February 17th 2009 @ 09:14:56 PM
Script : http://www.jhdjtdtdcom/forums/adminc....php?do=update
Referrer : http://www.hmcjhhhjg.com/forums/admi...usergroupid=22
IP Address : ss.44.xxx.10
Username : rxrxhns
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.67-community

[Howell]

Originally Posted by demoniavbh

This zip doesn't have all the files in amechache, there's only the index....

There is nothing meant to be in there other than index.html as it's a folder AME uses for storing cached files for later use!

[testbot]

did this stop working for anyone else? all of a sudden it's not posting youtube videos and i don't remember making any changes.