nah this did not work that well....still messed up the links

What version are you running?

2.03

Just installed this a week ago

I dont see why this cant be used like the ban word optiion in the admin area...

Re: 1. DEFS css that came with what file? Am I missing a file? :pirate:

Re: 3. Cool, very cool - has the max character length come back to you yet?

Hey this is a great hack. I first saw keyword links like this in an asp forum on a financial site, and I loved the idea, and hoped someone would bring it to vB3, and you have!

There is one major problem I am having with it at the moment though, and that is that all my forum goers hate it! Some think that they must have picked up some spyware which is inserting feyword links in every thing they read or write, and some think that our site has been hacked into by some marketing crazed cracker!

That financial site where I first saw this keyword advertising in forums, had a little javascript mouseover window, that pops up when you put your pointer over the link, and it explains that it's a sponsored link. How would I do that? Or where in the code would I insert the mouseover?

I have to give this hack 10/10, 'cos it's exactly what I have been wanting ever since I first saw the concept. Oh, and it's sooo quick and easy to install, and it works great on a busy forum. Just gotta make my members like it too. :cheeky:

Thanks for the kind words!

Re: Re:1. Damn. I am busted. I think I left the definition out of the 2.0 package and no one noticed! Here it is until I get a chance to get to the readme:

put this in your 'additional CSS properties' box of your style:
Customize it to whatever you want.

re:re 2: 25 characters. If you want more, just edit the geek_autolink table

Glad you like the hack. When I am done with my current project, I will start to look into doing the mouseover popups too.

Think the secret to getting your users to like it is to make it as unobtrusive as possible and dont autolink every other word ;)

nJoy

Wow! This hack is wonderfull! It's soooo easy to install and work with. Thank you so much :D

Is it possible to exclude (ignore) a whole forum, instead of filling in all forumthread ID's?

nope, just threadid's. Mostl likely wouldnt be too hard of a modification though.

sounds like a cool hack that I may be installing. Could you show an example of this in action where you don't have to login? Your example seems to link to a Premium area of your site.

Feature Suggestion:

A cool feature/option for this hack would be if when you typed in bob, the script used a redirect link, like: yoursite.com/forum/autolink.php?l=1

So if you wanted bob to link to bob.com, you would enter that in the AdminCP, and it would create the redirect link that would actually be used in the forum.

Where this would be useful, would be to track how many people are actually clicking on the link (useful to let advertisers know how many clicks they are getting).

It would also be useful to hide or shorten long affiliate links. Sometimes, people are less likely to click a link if they think it is an affiliate link, and the redirect would make it so that if you had a really long link or one with special characters, it would still turn out to just be a simple autolink.php?l=1 link in the forum.

Not all users of the hack would want this feature activated, so maybe it could be something optional?

Either way, great hack!

rrr I agree but then also I am using it to link to my other sites, if they are they way you want then Google and the other engines might not register that its a link to my site...