Geek AutoLinker 4.0 RC2
 

This is a totally new version of the popular GAL3.0 system

Thread closed. Release is gold here -> https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=76054


I am pretty cool that this package should be the final release. I have spent about 50 hours recoding this from the ground up but want a green light from you guys before I stick it in the current release thread.

In a nutshell this system replaces any keywords in posts with specific replacements (no, not like replacements in vb). It will do anything form simply link keywords all the way to produce poup boxes when doing a mouseover keywords.
The popups now support bbcode, html, multiple styles, titles, etc...

Other new features:
Track impressions, track hits, limit categories to certain forums, have usergroups toggle on.off certain forums, blahblahblahblah.

Basically its GAL 3 on Steroids.

O yea, the replacments are also a bit smarter :)

Upgrading:
From 2.6 and 3.0
Follow the install instructions in the readme. When you start up gal4_install.php, follow the upgrade path.
Please note that any replacement codes you added in 3.0 will go byebye. These are NOT your gal items... they are the global, category, or item level replacments that looked like something like this:
<a href="$link" title="$description">$text</a>

I would be shocked if anyone had more than 1 or 2 of these. If you modified them in any particular way - just copy them into notepad... run the install... then create new ones with the new system. REMEMBER: YOUR EXISTING GAL LINKS WILL BE PORTED SAFELY OVER!!!

Check out the extensive readme for details.

nice one dude :) I will be installing this later on, I still have the first one you release and have set it up to allow users to enable/disable it.

Ok, so the real question is: I already run 3.06, what is the best way to UPGRADE?

run the upgrade path of the installer :)

BTW: WHere did you get your 3.06? I only released up to 3.0 ;)

You may have to manaully edit files on 3 steps if the autoinstaller cant do it for you - but they are pretty minor edits.

BTW: Its worth noting that your replacement codes are going to go byebye from version 3.0 as there is a new way of doing it.
If you had custom replacement codes - you may want to copy them down first.

LOL! I meant 3.0 lol

Can this one do word replacements?

OH damn! Luckily I have NOT upgraded yet. So yes I will take a screenie of them. Oh man so many too...

Damn, this IS GAL3 on steroids :)

Nice job, to bad I dont have a use for it right now...

Tony - remember its the replacment codes - NOT your existing links and descriptions. Those will be ported over fine.

JimpsEd - Not sure I get you right. It is designed to replace words with whatever (primarily popup boxes).

Thanks Dark and Snipe. IMO THis is my greatest work to date. Very proud of it :)

HTH's

Uh oh, I might be confused!

The replacement codes that wont get ported over were at global, category and item level and looked something like this:
<a href="$link" target='blank' title='$description'>$text</a>

Those wont make it over to the new version but you can add them in later is you have tweaked ones. If you didnt tweak them, dont worry about them.

All your existing keywords etc... will get ported over when you upgrade.

Oh I did use these for the popups to work, can I just use the same ones again?:

yea - just copy them to notepad or something for now.
BTW - some of the column changes to geek_Autolinker do not appear to be happening... Hold off until further notice. I need to investigate :)

RODGER :banana:

Damnit, I have 900+ replacement codes. Is there a way to transfer them over? I can't simply copy them and paste them back into the system one-by-one again. Argh!

New package uploaded which fixed some db typos.

Orange: All your links are fine.... the codes will disappear. I would be shocked if anyone had more than 1 or 2 replacement codes.

Just updated package to rc4.01 to fix a small typo in the GAL_admin.php file which led to some drop down menus in IE truncating the first option.

Funnily enough - FF didnt seem bothered ;)

To upgrade, just download the latest version and replace your GAL_admin.php file.

nJoy

This really makes money for admins... nice.

Geek, very important question. Someone made for me a script that grabs name, url, id and description from vbaLinks and with a click, after edit I insert them in appropriate gal fields. This way, I have hudreds of gal links inserted on the fly.

Question: has anyone of those fields in gal changed?

Do you mean the geek_autolink fields?
SOme have changed but I wouldnt think that any you used would have changed.

BTW: just found another typo but its minor so Ill wait till the next update to address it.

In settings, the throttle field always comes up blank. It is saving it - but it isnt displaying it in the settings (which means if its blank and you click save it will overwrite to 0).

Nothing major though.

odd bug... has it been talked about?

the forums dont save. only a few do.
even if I click all.

Also if I go into my Private messages this pops up:
Warning: Empty regular expression in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/forums/includes/functions_gal.php on line 84

as you know line 84 is

hmmm. Just noticed the forums thing... Ill look into the other. In the meantime - turn off tracking.

Also in the threads that show active this appears:

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/forums/includes/functions_gal.php
Line: 84

Still occurs when I turn off tracking!
:surprised:

Just updated package to fix forum tick bug and the throttle typo.

T?media - grab the lastest package and just replace GAL_admin.php with the latest.

no more errors. That was fast! but the tick forum issue is still there.

got some javascript errors as well.
but I can see this will be awsome once this is cleared up.

Cool. Forum ticks should be working now... just retick and save... let me know :)

I just put it on my live site and already within a couple hours have had over 100 impressions on one keyword :)

(and it wasnt 'a') :)

For some reason these things happen:
Links POP UP no matter what. even if I use "_self"
Ignore threadid (dont autolink this thread) is being ignored lol...
So no matter what the links pop up.

yea - I just fixed the ignore thread bug but havent updated. Do you mean that you want a standard link and it is still popping up?
Try clicking debug->rebuild and tell me if that sorts it.

Yep your right... Thank you. I dont think I can find any other bugs. the forum still tick still stops. I have it with a LOT over 100.
Just so you know.

has anyone played with this with adsense or adsense search?

t3media - do you mean you have over 100 forums?

Do the ticks sort of 'run out' or are they sporadic (the earlier bug was sporadic).
I may not have a big enough field to hold the forums. If you seem to be running out, try changing the forumid field type in geek_autolink_cats to a medium text (if you can) and see if that helps.

Thanks for helping :)

7thgen - isnt adsense kind of like this? Sorry - I have never used it.

They run out. Yes the site has over 100 Forums. There is a legit reason and they are all used.
I THINK I know what you mean with geek_autolink_cats. Be a bit more specific so I am sure please.

If you have phpMyAdmin, just go into geek_autolink_cats... edit the forumid column... change the datatype from varchar to mediumtext...remove the 255 size and save it.

Then try to re-tick your forums and see if it saves. My guess is that it will. If it does I will then update the package to change the datatype of that field.

Thanks

no, not at all.

My replacement words donot show up at all. Is there something I am missing ?

I have a word here

word supposed to be autolinked but it shows me :

I have a here

When I edit a replacement word I have the following settings :

Subjest : Nirvana
Expires : Empty
Replacement Text : Nirvana
Link : http://forum.ayyas.com/showthread.php?t=4758
Ignore threadid : 0
Description : Nirvana Biyografisi
Ordinal : 0
Impressions : 0
Click Thrus : 0
Category Name : Eklenenler
Cached regex : #(\s(\bNirvana\b)s?)#im
Cached Replacement : <a href='autolink.php?id=36{TRACK_HITS}' target='_self' class='DEF' title='Nirvana <!--GAL_REMOVAL-->Biyografisi'><!--GAL_REMOVAL-->$1</a>


edit : It only happens in safe mode , when I change it to danger mode it started working correctly.

edit 2 : When I try to check the stats i get the following error :
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /admincp/GAL_admin.php on line 1146

when i try to rebuild, there is a missing phrase, GA_rebuilt