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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[tei727]

my problem is fixed..

[redlabour]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Do you have multiple versions of the same definition installed? If not,

Yes - it added You Tube and Amazon again. Thanks for the Hint.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Thanks guys... just fixed it. It was a bug with the check to make sure files were uploaded first. It wont have affected your installs, but it also wont happen again.

Also, thanks to the lame-o who rated it 1 star. Can only assume its some disgruntled 'other media hack' coder who couldn't pull something as snazzy as this off

Or someone who reads left to right just assumed that five stars would be to the right and not the left and clicked one star while realizing it at the last minute he/she clicked the wrong star...

What, I didn't say it was ME. I'm just sayin'.

Originally Posted by jack the lad

I cannot figure out where the "amecache-Index" folder/file goes, is it in the forum root directory?

I also get the file missing message, but I put that down to me ballsing up the upgrade

Nice mod though. Cheers.

You don't upload your files one at a time, you upload them all at once. That's why their already sorted where they're supposed to go.

[Andyrew]

Rebuild feature under tools wont complete on my forum it just does about four pages then stops.

[Digital Jedi]

Hey, Geek, rather then bug ya in PM... Just upgraded and I'm still having trouble with the $url and $title parsing. They're still just being stripped out, along with $ameinfo[title] and $ameinfo[url].

[Hornstar]

Great thanks heaps for the update, your the best ^^

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Andyrew

Rebuild feature under tools wont complete on my forum it just does about four pages then stops.

Is it always in the same spot? What if you change the number of results per page?

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Hey, Geek, rather then bug ya in PM... Just upgraded and I'm still having trouble with the $url and $title parsing. They're still just being stripped out, along with $ameinfo[title] and $ameinfo[url].

Hmm... the variables are being used fine here... can you give me an export of a definition that you feel isn't working as intended? (just one please!)

[boandmichele]

oh i forgot to ask, why is this new version being listed as unsupported?

its always been well supported in the past, or so i thought. especially if you are counting DJ lol

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by boandmichele

oh i forgot to ask, why is this new version being listed as unsupported?

its always been well supported in the past, or so i thought. especially if you are counting DJ lol

Heh, I DON'T count.

They've always been marked as unsupported, since updates can be done on the fly by the community. I just hang around and create the illusion it is. Kind of like the illusion I create to make it sound like I know what I'm talking about.

Originally Posted by The Geek

Hmm... the variables are being used fine here... can you give me an export of a definition that you feel isn't working as intended? (just one please!)

Heh, sure. Here's one where you won't have to go anywhere to grab URLs. I made this one to auto format internal link from your forum. This one does Forums and Category links (NOTE: does not do the ones with "daysprune" in the URL). It's supposed to grab the URL and title of the page.

[Andyrew]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Is it always in the same spot? What if you change the number of results per page?

Changed the results per page to 50 and it worked like a charm. :up: