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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[The Geek]

Originally Posted by SMMensans

This mod is great. Thanks to everyone involved.

Is there a way to change the color of the font above the videos without changing the color in the actual forum style? If not is there a way to change which font color (First Alternating Color), it pulls from in the forum style?

See the image below:

You can customise the container and such by editing the relevant ame templates.

HTHs

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by PossumX

Same issue here on vB 3.8.3 and AME 2.5.5, no matter what, the videos will no longer embed and only show up as titles.

I need URLs as examples otherwise I can't test. Try turning off extraction and/or removing the validation regexp from the youtube definition.

[InTeNsE-HuMoR]

I'm getting the following error when attempting to embed a game from gamesopoly.com:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/----/public_html/forums/includes/ame_bbcode.php(323) : regexp code on line 1

Fatal error: preg_replace() [<a href='function.preg-replace'>function.preg-replace</a>]: Failed evaluating code: ame_match(&quot;http://www.gamesopoly.com/game/1979/...orcements.html&quot;, &quot;&quot;, 1, &quot;~value=&quot;http://www\.([\w]+\.[\w]+/[\w-=%/]+)\.swf~sim&quot;, &quot;&quot;,$ameinfo) in /home/----/public_html/forums/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 323

Can anyone help?

[SMMensans]

Originally Posted by The Geek

You can customise the container and such by editing the relevant ame templates.

HTHs

Appreciate the help. From the AME Container template

<div align="center">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" width="$ameinfo[width]" style="margin:10px 0">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="2" style="text-align:center">
<a href="$ameinfo[url]" title="$ameinfo[title]" target="_blank">$ameinfo[title]</a>
</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
$ameinfo[code]
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div>

I can see where it grabs the tcat image but I don't see any info about the fonts. I'm sure it's there but I'm new to this.

[webgroup]

does this hack includes definitions for hulu?
or how can I make hulu to work with this??

thanks

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by webgroup

does this hack includes definitions for hulu?
or how can I make hulu to work with this??

thanks

Use the linked definitions file, and that will work.

[webgroup]

it did not worked in my forum

[jca2112]

The default Amazon.com link definition seems to have trouble parsing certain Amazon links.

The preferred (and shortest) url to link to an Amazon product page for affiliates is:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/ASIN/?tag=yourID

(where ASIN is the 10 digit Amazon product ASIN number and yourID would be the Amazon Affiliate ID)

An example of a working url would be:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005QGAT/?tag=yourID

Unfortunately AME's Amazon definition parses and rewrites this url as:

http://www.amazon.com/d/p/B00005QGAT/?tag=yourID

An extra / (slash) is being added between the d and p which breaks the link.

I assume this can be corrected with a different regular expression setting? Does anyone know what the fix would be?

[ski diva]

I have 3.8.2, and this plug-in made it impossible for users to edit or change their signatures.

Anyone else have this problem?

[Yellow Slider]

I can't install the xml file, I have 3+ million posts on my board, what can I do? importing it takes more then 2-3 hours and then it stuck.
I'm now trying to delete the ame_flad field from the post table and reinstall it, but the query to drop the ame_field takes a lot of time too.

do you know about problems with the AME on big boards? is there anything I can do in order to install it in another way?