I've run some test on the performance BEFORE and AFTER.

My test was conducted on an average page, and I recorded the "Page generated stats". I had 191 replacements, and using the DB cache.

The results were page loading time on average more than doubled, from an average of 0.5 secs, to 1.2 secs. This is an unacceptable increase, so despite really liking what this has to offer, I'm going to have pass on using it. If anyone can think of a way to make the performance better I'd love to take another look at this - unfortunately you can't get round the fact that for every new link added it has to check it against every word in the text, so in my case 1500 words x 191 links = 286,500 comparisons being made. Even on my dedicated dual-Xeon server it takes a big performance hit.

I wonder if a different approach can be taken, along the lines of how some sites you have words linked to ads - they don't seem to do anything with the html itself, but must be some clever javascript at work - perhaps this could be the answer.

All the same, praise to The Greek, for all his hard work, and if your only using this on a handful of links, I think there would be no problem in doing this - it's only when you want to have 100+ links you'll start to slow down signifcantly :(

alexi - usng the db cache gives you more whistles and belles (ie real time exclusion of links that have expired) however it requires a query to be called. Not using the query means that the datastore cache is used. You get the same basic functionality but not so many of the whistles and bells.

To be honest, The extra query isnt much of an overhead.

Pigsy - I appreciate whate you are saying and yes, the more replacements... the more server load. Even with a js callback, your server will need to scan the text for matches you have wich I doubt will lighten your load much. Personally, I never envisioned people using it with 190 replacements! If you come up with a different method, I would love to hear about it for the next release.

Cheers all!

(BTW - just an FYI - Im not around much right now as I am in Spain on holiday with the family. In fact, my wife is going to go nuts if she sees me on the system!... Be back soon ;) )

The Geek, thanks for this mod, we're toying with it at forum.notebookreview.com

One thing that would really help me is date ranges on the stats report. Right now it's set up as a lifetime, but for us, viewing performance over a week or month is more useful. If you could work that in some time, we'd be appreciative.

Hi,

Where does this hack install itself? A friend of mine did it, but I can't see it in Admin. :(

I've installed it and it's working great, thanks geek.

I have one problem though. I also have vBadvanced installed but the autolinker doesn't work on the vBadvanced homepage.

Is there a way of getting the autolinker working on the vBa homepage (and I've somehow missed it while searching for the answer) or is this still a problem to be solved?

Paul - check the gish folder for changed files

croupier. Im on holiday right now so I cant tell you exactly where and what, however yuo can simply call (something like) $gal->process_text(text);
Whereever you want gals to link. You may have to play about as I said - im away from my system so I cant tell you exactly what to do.

HTH´s

Problem for me as well. I need it to be turned off for a while and I've set all usergroups to be exempt from it and my field value to off but still no luck.

Hi Geek,

Can you elaborate a bit on "check for changed files" please?:)

Also, whereabout in Admin CP should it show up? May have to pay someone to do this for me. :(

Paul Ross,

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I've adjusted that Marco.