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 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
nJoy
AME 2.0 - The Embedder Strikes Back!
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
nJoy
you always need pics ;p