So everyone - how we looking?

Do we feel that the system is sorted now? I assume that everyone would like the popup option built into the install?

Everything is working pretty good for me ;)

I am still on the last RC before you added the popup. Not really a feature I would use, but everything else is A-OK. I also setup a test forum on a seperate box, and fresh install was smoooooth.

Thanks Zachlee.

Unless someone says otherwise - Ill most liekly release tonight

Thank you very much for this hack Geek. It is incredibly useful. :)

I would like to see a "smart mode" in addition to the dangerous and safe mode. I am using safe mode, but there are a lot of potential links that are not getting linked. I think it just needs a little more intelligence with regular expressions to catch more of them without resorting to the dangerous mode where even segments of words get linked.

Also, can we enter regexps in the "text to replace" field when adding entries?

Pop-up doesnt work and if you do a search that IS the link the link dies.

For example if I made the word sexy a link and do a forum serach for sexy and goto that page.... (http://www.yoursite.com/forums/showt...highlight=sexy)
The link will die.

Just figured that one out.

the version I installed was the version dated to the post I made. I did not look and I am at the office at the moment. I was on IE latest version on XP.

Tom, you would have to edit the code to edit the regex. If you can supply a better one - I am game to put it in.

In safe mode, it must have a space before the word in order to qualify. when searching, the word gets highlighted with something like <span=highlight>word</span>. It would be very difficult and very slow to try and figure out if the > next to word was the end of a link or not. Same with a full stop . who knows if that is part of an extension of a url? Or an underscore? You get the gist. Without a lot of recursive checking - its very difficult to try to determine if it is safe to link.

But like I said in the begining - if a better regex can be put forward then I think that is a big +

For the popup to work - you have to make file changes to vbulletin_menu.js and you must have the recommended replacement text in the global, category or item replacment where that item lives (if you get me).