BB Code Enhancements - AME3 - Auto Media Embeding and Video Extender

From the makers of Smooth and Jazz comes the singing sensation my mom has been waiting months for:

AME3. Bigger. Badder. Bestest.

NOTE ABOUT vB4.0.3: ------------------------------------------------------------

vBulletin 4.0.3 has changed the way video codes are handled and in the process, inadvertently broke AME3. I have submitted a bug report and believe that the issue will be quickly resolved. There is a manual fix you can apply for 4.0.3 here in the interim.
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AME3 is the sequel to the multi award winning AME 1x and AME 2x systems. AME3. This time, its different.

Vote for AME3 as MotM!

If you like AME3, you'll love AME'fy for your profiles!

AME3 does 3 things:

• It allows users to simply paste URLs into their message without having to use the video bbcode or video popup box.
• It allows you to add, edit and customise the video definitions that ship with vB4
• It allows you to import community created definitions to extend the system in ways you otherwise couldn't.

Now you can use AME anywhere you can use video bbcode: posts, blogs, visitor messages, the CMS, etc...

Note that I am releasing this early for beta testing and general feedback. There is currently a bug in RC2, RC4 and 4.0.0 that will prevent AME from working however there is a workaround posted below.

I have written a pretty comprehensive readme and attached it seperatly to this post. I suspect both this post and the readme will get updated as AME3 becomes finalised.

[zelnik]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Hi there, Try removing the old video codes. Those won't work at all. In fact, the upgrade process called for uninstallation of the previous system before upgrading.

HTHs

Argh did it? I just overwrote files and then installed the xml

Can you give me some pointers of where to look for the old video codes?!

Thanks mate

[War.Frog]

Originally Posted by zelnik

Thanks for the edit Geek.

However and I'm not completely confident of it yet but it does seem to be (after an hour of testing)

As soon as I made the edit to the php and posted my first video I notice the majority of normal posts since were doubling up (double posts) at first I thought it was coincidence and then it happened to me.

I've since replace the old original php back and disabled the ame plugin and it seems no users have double posted yet.

Is anyone else having this problem?

Yeah I'm double-posting a lot today.

[shooterdfl]

Originally Posted by The Geek

I have applied for a new hook to be added to take care of the issue in 4.0.3 so hopefully this will only be "broken" for this iteration. If you want to fix, you will need to apply the following file edit:

Note: THIS IS FOR VERSION 4.0.3.

Edit includes/functions_video.php and change:

PHP Code:

function parse_video_bbcode($pagetext)
{
    global $vbulletin; 


to

PHP Code:

function parse_video_bbcode($pagetext)
{
    global $vbulletin;
require_once(DIR . '/includes/ame_prep.php');
$providers = ame_data_preparse($pagetext); 


This worked like a champ for me. Thanks Geek!

[War.Frog]

Very strange - be careful with this file edit. I applied it yesterday and it seemed to fix the problem for a short while. However, after a day or so I began experiencing terrible double-posting problems and the Post Quick Reply stopped working in the AJAX way and started spawning the Redirecting... page, also resulting in duplicate posts.

Even more strangely, I went back in and simply deleted those two lines suggested in the code above but the problem persisted. Only when I overwrote the file with my original download did the problem go away.

WEIRD!

[The Geek]

Not trying to argue - just not sure how on earth this file edit could cause double posts or any other issues. It is essentially the code that was in the hook that was there before. Now, if the file edit wasn't done correct, maybe that could cause a problem - but its not a very complex edit. Maybe some sort of corruption during the upload after edit?

FWIW - Freddie has sorted a solution for vb 4.0.4

[zelnik]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Not trying to argue - just not sure how on earth this file edit could cause double posts or any other issues. It is essentially the code that was in the hook that was there before. Now, if the file edit wasn't done correct, maybe that could cause a problem - but its not a very complex edit. Maybe some sort of corruption during the upload after edit?

FWIW - Freddie has sorted a solution for vb 4.0.4

I very much doubt it was anything to do with the file edit as for me it was the first time I had used AME3 so it was probably something else in AME3 that did it and when the file edit brought the plugin back into life then that's when the double posts happened.

I went back and traced my steps and I followed the upgrade instructions to the ticket in your pdf and as you said the file edit is an easy one so it's not that.

I uninstalled it completely (using the guide in the pdf) reinstalled it and within mins of it enabled i was getting double posts.

I disabled it and uninstalled and reinstalled the next morning and for whatever reason (i've double checked the install method) it's not working at all now (converting urls automatically)

So I think I'll wait for 4.0.4 and try again!

I suppose it could be a conflict with another addon perhaps?!

[Chicken Racer]

Just for the record I found that many styles stop the mod from working.
The default style works fine , but once I installed a number of other styles the mod would only embed the standard videos such as youtube and others.

[The Geek]

This product has nothing to do with styles at all. More than likely another issue.

@Zelnik - possibly a conflict. If you can give me steps to reproduce on a clean board, then I can fix it - but as it stands now, it works perfectly fine on a fresh install with the file edit made.

[ellinofatsa]

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in [path]\includes\class_bootstrap.php(1146) : eval()'d code on line 38

the problem is the same any tip for fix it;

[ellinofatsa]

now i go to make a new post and i see this

http://www.ellinofatsa.gr/forums/new...ostthread&f=73