Show Thread Enhancements - AME 2.0 -Auto Media Embedding for posts, blogs, visitor and group messsages

From the creators of French and Toast comes a sweet and sticky enchanement to the New York Times best-seller: AME - Auto Media Embedding

AME 2.0 - The Embedder Strikes Back!

AME has won Mod of the Month for Spetember 08. Thanks!

Note that 2.5 Gold has been released. Click Here.

Discussions for AME 2.5 RC 1 start here

AME 2.0 is the next version of the "Mod of the Month" winning media embedder that:

• Allows user to simply 'paste' in a URL (i.e. a youtube link) without needing to know any special tags. However instead of displaying just the URL, it will show the media within the post
• is lightweight as it does all of her chores without the overhead of having 1 bbcode per pattern or trying to parse a post every single time it gets displayed with a bunch of patterns. AME radically reduces overhead and speeds up processing. The only time ame will kick in is after creating a new post or after editing an existing one (or if an ame tag is found)
• is extensible. She allows you to add, edit, delete, import and export patterns. That way you can decide which services to support, how they should look and then share them with others! At time of typing this, there are over 150 media sites that have been contributed by vBulletin.org members
• can extract the title (requires your server to allow url wrappers with fetch_contents)
• can extract embed code from sites whose URLs do not contain sufficient information to embed the video
• can rebuild your old posts to convert your 'other' mediaish tags into URL tags.
• can rebuild your old posts, blogs, comments, visitor and social group messages to convert URL tags into ame tags where needed
• can convert her codes BACK to url codes so you're not stuffed with a bunch of dead tags if you uninstall!
• won't uglify your site by having videos appear in quotes, php, code or html blocks (blech!)
• can be globally disabled
• can be excluded from forums
• can exclude usergroups
• can be toggled on/off per post, blog, comment, visitor and social group message
• would cook dinner for you if she had arms
• can wrap the output in a 'container' with original URL
• has a super comprehensive admincp help system. Yes, I actually took the bloody time to add all the info you need into vB's admincp help system. If you ask a silly question in this thread that is addressed in the help system, you will be taunted.
• is fully phrased
• has hooks around integral operations so you can extend it
• Supports embedding in vbBlog, Visitor Messages and Social Groups.
• Can be disabled in one or more of the following sections: Posts, vbBlog, Visitor Messages and/or Social Groups

Apart from the additional areas of support around vbBlog, Visitor Messages and Social Groups, little has changed about AME since version 1.0 released over a year ago. I cleaned up a few minor bugs, trimmed and updated the default definitions.

Which sites are supported?

At time of counting this, there are about 170 sites supported. But I have only included a few common standards as default (yahoo, youtube, myspace, google and Amazon). Why only these? AME was designed with its own import and export system that enables users to create or modify definitions and share them with the community. This keeps the system lightweight, customisable and saves us all from having to upgrade every time a media site changes their URL structure or if I add another site.

Check out the 'add ons' section of this post below to see availible add-ons.



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.

Big thanks goes out to all those in the community that have supported this mod. Especially Digital Jedi Who has created about 155 definitions for this system alone!

Change Log


2.0.2 - fixed added slashes in quote blocks (DoH!), vm advanced error and incrimented product version. You need to replace include/ame_bb_code.php and re-import the product-ame.xml to upgrade
2.0.1 - fixed missing backslashes in code blocks

2.5 Pre-Release information

Attached to this post is pre-release of version 2.5

2.5 is a pretty major upgrade from the 2.0 series and adds the following functionality to 2.0:

• New in Beta 3 - Validation ability. This will help prevent media being embedded that can not be embedded (i.e. youtube videos that the author has stipulated can not be shown off of youtube). This option requires the extraction option to be turned on and a valid validation regexp. I have included one in the default youtube version. When a video on you tube gets embedded, but the author doesnt allow embedding, a link (with icon) is shown instead.
• Ability to prevent non authorised usergroups from viewing (see Readme file in zip for more info)
• Usergroup permissions (edit usergroup to adjust edit/view permissions)
• Template driven system - uses templates now instead of 1 master replacement (see Readme file in zip for more info)
• Signatures supported
• Different sizes and template configurations for each supported zone (posts, blogs, groups, visitor messages and signatures)
• A couple new hooks (Mainly to support a future add on for AME media in profiles)
• Notfication system (similar to vB's to check for errors)
• Definition keys for easier updating of definitions and to use in templates
• File caching system which radically reduces processing
• And more that I cant think of off the top of my head!

Note that while previous definitions will work with the new system, they will not be sizeable by zone. Since DJ helped with the private beta testing, I am sure he will be releasing 2.5 versions of his definitions soon.

Please note that 2.5 is a pre-release so there will be issues. If you want more stability, use 2.x until this version becomes gold FWIW: The only items currently outstanding are to add some missing admincp help. The rest is working as intended as far as I can tell

nJoy

[TC Topps]

To the Geek;

Thank you kindly sir! I only have a small idea of what has been done to create this contribution!

I can only dream of giving even a small portion back to the community in comparison! But again thanks a lot! This product really adds a lot to vBulletin use!

My best regards!

TC Topps

[Gladhatter]

Originally Posted by TC Topps

To the Geek;

Thank you kindly sir! I only have a small idea of what has been done to create this contribution!

I can only dream of giving even a small portion back to the community in comparison! But again thanks a lot! This product really adds a lot to vBulletin use!

My best regards!

TC Topps

I have a notion that you click that paypal button up there and support the coder himself until you can give back to the community and help him give more and better.

[ged]

Originally Posted by soulface

When I post any youtube link in any profile's visitor messege, It's shows double...

I have this same problem but there is only one Youtube definition, how can I solve it?

[parabat]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

No, I'm afraid AME doesn't convert attachments. The URLs for attachments aren't unique enough for AME to distinguish what kind of media it is.

Isn't it possible to add a option in the attachments upload area to specify the media type so that AME doesn't have to figure it out, but it's done manually by the uploading user?
This would be very helpful.

-PB

[The Geek]

Ged, you've go duplicate definitions.

Thanks is good enough

Go install 2.5 this version is outdated

[i156]

I just installed vbTube on my site and I'm wondering if there is away I could get AME to work with my own url's from this plugin. Example URL:

http://www.usacarry.com/forums/video...590.html#watch

[Gladhatter]

Originally Posted by i156

I just installed vbTube on my site and I'm wondering if there is away I could get AME to work with my own url's from this plugin. Example URL:

http://www.usacarry.com/forums/video...590.html#watch

Short answer is yes. Longer answer is you have to write a regex definition for it in the AME cpanel OR BRIBE geek or DJ WITH HUGE amounts of money ( send it direct to me of course for transfer to them) and then you may get it done.

KIDDING about the bribery.

Any coder with regex experience or wanting to learn it can do this for you fee based.

[Adeawan]

Not Working On My Forum
I put the url and it jst shows the url thats it.

[Gladhatter]

Originally Posted by Adeawan

Not Working On My Forum
I put the url and it jst shows the url thats it.

With all the respect in the world here for this posting member but wishing to use this as an oppertunity to teach, Please read this post and tell me what possibility does the coder or anyone have to respond to this poster with any relevent information or reply?

You can read it and see it is a one liner type post with 0 information about what is not working. We can assume it was made in the correct forum and is about AME but we may be wrong about that even.

We understand the poster seems to have some issue with something not working.


The poster however failed to take the time to document anything about anything.

1. There is no mention of what is not working. eg. My ame version XX.x is not functioning. This is the functions in that version of AME that I am having an issue with.
2. No mention of the forum version it is used on. Is this a Vbulletin forum as we assume and to remove all doubt why not just identify it by Version of the forum if not name and version.
3. No mention of the specifics of what is not working.
4. No url posted that is not working.
5. No indication of what if anything the poster has done to trouble shoot the problem.
6. NO screen shot or idenifying information of any kind that can help anyone to help the poster.

I wish to finally and respectfully say that it is unlearned and approaching rude to do this. Here we have a coder that has put in 100s to 1000s of hours building a fine program and here now when he is clearly on a limited schedule as indicated in "not supported" to support this product and you have one person jump up and conclude almost rudely that obviously something is wrong as it is a shared problem with many and not realizing that 1000's are using it successfully and the "Something Wrong" is the hand full that are not doing the things needed to make it run right and disrespecting the coder with casting aspersions of doubt on him and not knowing as they point one finger at the coder they are pointing 4 back at themselves.

Then we find that followed by this poster that either wishes no help or else is used to a mind reader helping them or a jelous lover with a remote spy on their box that magically fixes all the issues that come up as they can see them with the remote connect software and just does not tell them they are being spied on.

Maybe this person has none of the above but thinks the community or the coder can fix the unidenified problem with out any clue as to what the problem is.

So in summation here, if you wish to post an issue and you have any reasonable expectation of any valuable help then PLEASE post enough information to allow some one to assist you.

It is not nice to say this is not working and then summon the coder to have to go through an ardous process to dig out what is not working and then try to teach the person to hit one control and turn it on as he could do had this been idenified in the first post for help made and not 25 post later when he finally finds out what it is that is not working.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Adeawan

Not Working On My Forum
I put the url and it jst shows the url thats it.

works on at least 1,000 others. You need to provide more information that you are (i.e. a link to a page that isnt working and/or the URL that isnt converting).

I would also suggest using 2.5 as it .5 newer