I see your point. Too much code would be a bad thing. Compromise is good.

Nice hack.

Isnt it the same thing accomplished now with replacements variables?

I'm getting errors b/c my prefixes are not default vb prefix, I have changed them. Could you make the hack work without having default named vb prefixed.

will this work without adding the geek article hack?

so every time bob is posted in a thread or has been posted in a thread it will link to whatever url we want?

@Lionel: Nope

@Rex: Updated the geek_autolink file. It was missing a table_prefix. Could you please click install so you are notified of changes?

@trainer: Yup, will totally work without GAS3. And yes, everytime bob, ben or bertha (or whatever you want) appears in a post... it will link it to whatever url you want.

HTH's

So basically, the admin or the owner of the forum would have to input the individual URLs for all the corresponding words he/she wants hyperlinked? For example, on a video game message board, you could have words like "Mario" or "Halo" become actual links to Nintendo.com or Bungie.com?

I've seen this feature executed before and I was wondering if there was a master list available for Amazon.com keywords, to save me the trouble of manually hyperlinking every book title.

Thats correct.

I dont know of any master list, though it is quite a cool idea ;)
Doesnt Amazon use refererids? If that was the case, a master list might not work (unless you didnt care about thre refererid).

Another question, does the feature work in retrospect? Meaning, will it convert all targeted words even those made prior to the hack's installation, or will it only apply to subsequent entries?

It works on all posts regardless of if they were posted before or after the hack as the links are made at the time of viewing the thread (woo-hoo dynamic!). For instance, adding 'fred' in the sytem will instantly makes all occurences of fred in posts hyperlinked, Have a fall out with Fred and dont like him hyperlinked? Take fred out of the system and he wont appear hyperlinked anymore.

Cool eh?!

Really nice hack. I notice you say it add's one queries is that no matter how many links are checked?