AutoLinker Lite, keyword linker for vBulletin 3.7 and 4.x, and vbcms
 

AutoLinker Lite is a keyword linker for vBulletin 3.7 upwards, 4.x, and vBulletin CMS. It allows the webmaster to configure particular words or phrases as keywords, which will then be automatically linked when they appear in user posts. As well as being hyperlinked, keywords can have pop-over info boxes, as in the image below:

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These info boxes are highly configurable (colours, borders, fade in/fade out effect etc), and can contain html - meaning you can embed images, videos etc. Balloon-style boxes are also supported.

AutoLinker Lite has a flexible permissions system, allowing you to control which forums a given link appears in, and which usergroups it is visible too.

This is a free version of a commercial product, and contains a limit on the number of AutoLinks that you may create. Other than that, it is fully functional.

Please note that AutoLinks in the CMS do not work in vBulletin 4.0.0 and 4.0.1. 4.0.2 and upwards are fine.

A couple more images to hopefully whet your appetite:

Some of the things you can do with HTML:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

Admin control panel:

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after installing i get this error on control panal that when i chose any option of hack options

Sorry, there's a fresh version available to download (from the link in the original post) which should solve that problem

installed

Please post a aminCP screen shot showing the functionality.

I've added a couple to the original post.. There are more sections in the ACP, but I didn't want the post to be too image-heavy

Thank you for addon :)
But tell me plz how many links i can create?

Please be so kind to add them. Smaller images are fine. I'd like to see them to find out if it suits the purpose I want to use it for.

This is an interesting mod. Do you have a link to the commercial version? Can we use these to create ads to link for example affiliate products? Thank you.

What about Rissian language?

Here we go, Alfa1. Along with the images in the original post, this covers all areas of the control panel

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dondavis: the lite version is limited to 5 links. Regarding Russian, do you mean a language pack for the admin console, or support for hyperlinking russian words? In answer to the first question, the admin area is only in English I'm afraid. For the second question, there shouldn't be any problems using it on a forum with Russian posts.

I sent you a message from your site.

We have a very large forum - 253,000 members, 700,000 visitors per month.
We use AutoLinker for all sorts of things including affiliate links. It makes a huge difference because our members ask questions about where to source some item or other and when they submit their post and go and check it - as they all do, - they generally find that they have typed in a keyword and it has been automatically linked with our affilliate code already in place.

It makes for very tight targeting of affiliate advertising. Forum users are given a link to exactly whatever it was they were looking for.

Very nice.

How does this mod handle keywords that include other keywords? For example if I enter both product and production, then what will happen when someone types the word production ?
And if I only enter 'product' then what will happen when someone posts the word 'production' ?

If you had 'product' as a keyword, and someone typed 'production', it wouldn't link it - it understands word boundaries, and doesn't hyperlink keywords that are part of a large word.

Hopefully that answers the question about if you had 'product' and 'production'; If 'production' was typed, only the 'production' keyword would be linked

Hi i am going to test the lite version on my VB4.0.2 PL4 installation and when i am satisfied can i upgrade to the commercial version without any problems ?

Yep, that won't be a problem. You'll be able to upgrade without losing any existing settings

What does 'remember to escape double quotes' mean?

Sorry, it means that if you use double quotes inside the 'content' box, they need to be escaped with a slash - eg \" rather than just "

Thanks for the explanation.

Bought it, using it with currently over 1,000 links made.

By far and away one of the top mods made. This thing is awesome!

*Installed/Nominated

It works for me in the standard settings.

But if I want to edit a display template the following DB error comes:

Error when i edit a template

Mike_K, RedPoint : sorry about that, you've both found the same bug. I've fixed it and uploaded version 1.0.1 (the link is on the first post in the thread).

You won't need to reinstall to apply the fix - just extract the zip file, and upload admincp/autolinker.php (overwriting the existing file). No need to upload any of other files

thanks, its run now

Hello,
Looks like a nice add-on!

I installed it and am getting an error on the top of the admin settings page

Any idea what is causing this. It's only on the admin settings page.
I changed the cpanel to a_control_panel, not for sure if this caused the error.

Also, when I set "number of autolinks to show in any post" to 1, it does only show one autolink, but it still highlights all the other keywords... but does not link them. Is there a way not do do both once it's pass the specified amount of autolinks per post (not to link AND not to highlight).
It would be nice to limit it per "thread"

Now it works, thank you. But you meant autolinker.php ind the folder /autolinker ?
Only updating the file in the admincdp (autolinker_admin.php) didn't solve the problem.

Uninstalled!

It's a very nice mod. But the free version isn't useable because of the limitation of 5 links. This is too less.

And in my opinion 25 - 35 GBP for only one year (!) is too much money for the pro version.

Maybe you will think about your licensing model?

Hmm no, it's definitely autolinker_admin.php that was the problem; that was the only file that had changed from 1.0 -> 1.0.1

It's a security setting in PHP - stops file_get_contents from opening URLs. Eventually we'll probably use cURL as an alternative when PHP is configured like this, but for the meantime I've just suppressed this warning.

If you want to grab v1.0.2 from the first post, it will address this (you'll only need to replace admincp/autolinker.php), but it's only a warning, and not for a particularly important feature (it just checks the latest version of AutoLinker available, and tells you if there's a newer version out)

Hmm, it certainly shouldn't be doing this. Don't suppose you could give me a link to a thread on your forum where this is happening please?

I just reuploaded all files inc the product and everything seems to be fine now. It does not show more than the alloted links...great!
Thanks

I'm not aware that it expires after a year. I think that tech support expires but I don't expect the links to stop working

I think you've misunderstood the license. 25 - 35 GBP buys you the full version, with 1 year of updates and support. At the end of that year, AutoLinker will still work, and you can continue using it for as long as you like. You simply won't be entitled to free support or updates. So after the initial purchase, you could use it for years without having to pay anything again.

I understand this. But I must calculate that I have to buy every year a new license, because we don't know if the mod is working with VB 4.08, 4.2 ....whatever comes after one year.

I don't say that mod is not worth it. The mod is really professionell made.

But for me it is too much. I do need only 30 - 40 acronyms / autolinks.

So I use furthermore the more simple made Acronym Mod which works fine also with VB 4.02

That's a good point. We haven't finalised the pricing for renewals yet, but plan on offering a discount of around 50% for existing customers, and obviously that would still be optional

uhhh.getting this error

mandingo: the good news is that it's just a warning, although you shouldn't be seeing it in the first place, as that file has error warning suppressed.

It looks as if either you hadn't assigned a template to your link, or the link had no keywords.

Anyway, I've added some error checking to that file, which will stop that warning from happening. So the latest version (1.0.3 - link in the first post) will address this. You'd just need to upload the revised autolinker.php