s9e Media BBCodes pack 20231102

[The Grand Potentate]

@JoshyPHP the DemocracyNow doesn't seem to be working:

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2015/5/21/matt_taibbi_on_the_journalists_politicians

http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/20/sgt_james_brown_26_survived_two

 

[JoshyPHP]

The second URL works for me but the first one is unsupported because that's the first time I see one of those. Democracy Now! appears to be using 4 different kinds of URLs and the add-on only supports 2 of them at the moment. I've updated my library to support all 4 of them but it's going to require some work for them to work in XenForo. The canonical URL does not match exactly the URL used for the embed and it's going to take some effort to make them work properly. I'm going to try to do that now.

 

[JoshyPHP]

JoshyPHP updated s9e Media BBCodes pack with a new update entry:

Improved support for Democracy Now!

As it turns out, Democracy Now! uses 5 different kinds of canonical URLs, each with a slightly different embed URL.

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[The Grand Potentate]

Excellent work as always Joshy. Thanks so much.

 

[RastaLulz]

Support for jsFiddle would be nice.

Also, great work on keeping all these different services updated.

 

[Cannabis.com]

I get this error when trying to embed any videos into a post, what am I doing wrong?

preg_match(): Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (? at offset 22

    XenForo_Application::handlePhpError()
    preg_match() in XenForo/Helper/Media.php at line 56
    XenForo_Helper_Media->_convertMediaLinkToEmbedHtml() in XenForo/Helper/Media.php at line 39
    XenForo_Helper_Media::convertMediaLinkToEmbedHtml() in XenForo/ControllerPublic/Editor.php at line 32
    XenForo_ControllerPublic_Editor->actionMedia() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 347
    XenForo_FrontController->dispatch() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 134
    XenForo_FrontController->run() in /home/sites/boards.cannabis.com/htdocs/index.php at line 13

 

[JoshyPHP]

@RastaLulz I'll think about it. Not sure it fits into the theme but I'll consider it.

@Cannabis.com Your version of PCRE is too old. Ask your webhost how to upgrade your version of PHP because the one your site is running has been obsolete for a few years now.

 

[Cannabis.com]

@Cannabis.com Your version of PCRE is too old. Ask your webhost how to upgrade your version of PHP because the one your site is running has been obsolete for a few years now.[/QUOTE]

@JoshyPHP What version of PCRE shall I request it be updated it too? I believe it is currently 6.6? is there a php version that is best as well? as I am currently on php 5.3

thanks much as I am looking forward to getting this up

 

[JoshyPHP]

The latest version of PCRE is 8.37. The one you're currently using must be close to 10 years old.

In general, I'd say just use the latest version of PHP because new versions are faster. The most recent version of PHP is 5.6.9 but most webhosts are slow to update so you might end up with PHP 5.5 or even something older. As a reference, this page shows which versions of PHP are currently supported by its developers.

 

[OwenJames]

Hey

Just tried a live Ustream embed broadcast.

Previously, when embedded, hitting play on the embed started the live broadcast in the post on the forum. Now, it jumps to the actual Ustream user page on Ustream.tv, meaning that the live broadcast can't be watched on the forum.

Any idea why this is now happening? Very odd and annoying.

Cheers.

 

[JoshyPHP]

I don't know, it works for me in browsers where Flash is not blocked. What was the URL for the live channel?

 

[Pixel Pirate]

I'm getting an error when attempting to install the addon:

ErrorException: Fatal Error: syntax error, unexpected ':' - library/s9e/MediaBBCodes.php:353

 

[JoshyPHP]

@Pixel Pirate My guess is that you're using an outdated version of PHP such as PHP 5.2.

 

[Pixel Pirate]

@Pixel Pirate My guess is that you're using an outdated version of PHP such as PHP 5.2.

You are indeed correct. All fixed and working now. Cheers.

 

[BentDreams]

@JoshyPHP I've been doing some beta testing and love this add-on but just discovered an Amazon link that isn't parsing for some reason and was wondering if you might have an idea as to whether it is a URL format change by Amazon or if there is something I need to be looking into more on my end.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=Orblue+Bag+Heat+Sealer

BTW, I just upgraded the previous version that I was testing to the latest version 20150525

Thanks

 

[JoshyPHP]

@BentDreams Only individual products are supported. Their URLs usually have /dp/ in them, like this one for example.

 

[BentDreams]

@BentDreams Only individual products are supported. Their URLs usually have /dp/ in them, like this one for example.

Ok, that makes sense for embedding the pics, but would it be possible to still parse the URL's and add the affiliate tag?

 

[JoshyPHP]

This add-on focuses on the embedding part. If you're more interested about adding your affiliate tag to any Amazon link you'll need a specialized add-on. I've never used it but I think this one will do what you're looking for: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/amazon-parser.2894/

 

[BentDreams]

Ok, thanks. I was interested in both as the adding of the Amazon image is nice for users and your add-on had the ability to add the affiliate link so it was a great solution.

I had found the Amazon parser and was testing it when I discovered your addon (which is awesome and my donation is coming in today) so I disabled the other one.

Do you know if both can be running at the same time without conflicting with each other when the link is directly to a product? I mean is there a way to say which add-on takes precedence?

 

[JoshyPHP]

Whichever is installed last gets precedence wherever there's a conflict. If you want to use this add-on without using its own Amazon embed, you can add Amazon to the list of excluded site, in the options. Home > Options > s9e Media Pack