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 InTeNsE-HuMoR

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



Can anyone help?

That is a custom definition. Not sure what the problem is without knowing the definition. If it is in DJ's add on thread, try posting the problem (including an example URL and attach an export of the definition to your post). I have just erturned from vacation so am pretty swamped, but will try to look at it when I get some time

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by SMMensans

Appreciate the help. From the AME Container template


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.

The info will be in the tcat css definition (or it will be inherited from the parent element). You can use the style attribute to override the fonts though.

HTHs

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by 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?

AME is designed to accept the URL formats that users will copy and paste from Amazon itself (which I suspect wouldnt normally be this example). You can however customize the replae code how you see fit. Though I have no idea the correct format you need, I suspect something like:

PHP Code:

<a href="http://www.amazon.$p1/dp/$p3/?tag=yourid" target="_blank" title="$ameinfo[title]"><img src="images/misc/amazon_icon.gif" border="0" alt="$ameinfo[title]" /></a> <a href="http://www.amazon.$p1/dp/$p3/?tag=yourid" target="_blank" title="$ameinfo[title]">$ameinfo[title]</a> 


Note that in the above change, I changed:
http://www.amazon.$p1/$p2/$p3/

to

http://www.amazon.$p1/dp/$p3/?tag=yourid

HTHs

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by 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?

Nope, never seen that reported before. Do you have another Signature modification. What happens if you disable AME in signatures?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by 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?

There isn't any reported issue with AME running on big boards, however during installation AME adds a TINYINT column to the post table for perfomance reasons. This installation is what is slowing down your install.

My suggestion is to manually add the column using phpMyAdmin or similar tools preferably closing down the site during the install.

Then run the install and AME will skip that process elegantly as the column would already exist.

HTHs

[ski diva]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Nope, never seen that reported before. Do you have another Signature modification. What happens if you disable AME in signatures?

No, no other signature modifications. When I disable AME, the problem goes away,

[Verionia]

This work for 3.83?

[thegrissom]

Originally Posted by Verionia

This work for 3.83?

yes not soucy.

[Verionia]

Thankks, it works for 3.83!

[Bonee70]

Hello, I really love this piece of software but it is not really working for the EA-Sports links.

I run a EA-Madden-League and members post their Game-Highlights as links on the EA-Sports site.

The posted links to the Videos can look like this:

1) http://www.easportsworld.com/en_US/video/8157415

and is automatically converted into

2) http://beta.easports.com/media/play/video/8157415

When posting the first link on my board, AME converts the link into the container, showing a nice EA-Logo and the link on top of the container is directing the user to the correct EA site, but the video won't start. Instead I get the triangle with a exclamation mark in it.

When people post the converted link (#2) it just shows up unconverted (without the container) as a simple link.

I have made an example on my board to show the problem. May anyone give me a hint what to change in the EA-Sports definition so that the replay videos can be played within the post on my board when either #1 or #2 link gets posted? Thank you very much!

Here is the example how the EA links (#1 and #2) show up within a post on my board:

http://www.maddenliga.de/forum/showt...2271#post12271