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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[minty_fresh]

I have tried uploading the files a few times now and still getting this when making any form of post...

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]\includes\class_dm_threadpost.php(744) : eval()'d code on line 3

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'G:\websites\jdmtas\htdocs\forum/includes/ame_bbcode.php' (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in G:\websites\jdmtas\htdocs\forum\includes\class_dm_ threadpost.php(744) : eval()'d code on line 3

AH!? If i uninstall the xml file from the products i can post, Advice?

[Gladhatter]

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

Why do so many coders not make their add-ons validate to w3 standards.

Any chance you will make this w3 compliant?

Dave while I have no answer to your concerns about the coders or the possible laziness or uncaring nature of them to write good code to good standards, I am thankful to you for pointing out the W3 Compliant standard. I chased down my site and found that the very few minor bugs that pop up time to time but not always or predictable were all shown up in the W3 complaincy standard tester.

Our next to do is get our site 100% W3 complaint.

I find it bizzare that all would not wish to have this complaincy when it can resolve a million and one issues.

[jGas]

hi, this mod seems to be great!
but i have a musicians board, so i'd like to know if mp3 attachments are supported.

thanks!

[Gladhatter]

MP3 are supported and most any other file-- 1000s of them but you have to have a proper definition.

[ArnyVee]

I've been trying to pinpoint why my AME is not working on my site. The other night I went through all of my mods (and I've got a ton of 'em) and disabled all and posted a link and the link was a regular link. Then, I enabled AME and the long <div> issue came up. So, it's not a modification that is causing the issue apparently. Could it be that something else that I have custom coded or something else is conflicting with AME?

Any suggestions as to what I should look for? Javascript or anything in particular within some coding?

[MadtownHDJunkie]

i am having an issue with ESPN video working. Is there a answer for this?

ty

[ArnyVee]

MadtownHDJunkie, might want to ask the question over on DJ's thread since this is only for the AME mod itself. The custom definitions are handled at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=195884

[minty_fresh]

anyone any idea on whats wrong with my one?

[LWS]

installed and seems to work perfect! thanks for a great mod

Originally Posted by minty_fresh

anyone any idea on whats wrong with my one?

Are you sure you upload all files? as your error seems to suggest a missing file

[Gladhatter]

I have a crazy idea to google W3 validator.