Miscellaneous Hacks - Word Links FREE (Turn words into links) by BOP5

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Thank You for voting this June 2011 Mod of the Month!!!

The purpose of this mod is to automatically turn keywords or phrases you specify into links. You set a list of keywords and a list of URLs to link them to and let the mod do the rest.

This is the FREE Version. It allows you to auto-link words in:

• Posts/Threads
• Private Messages
• Visitor Messages
• Social Groups

The GOLD Version is available at Qapla.com It allows auto-linking words in:

• Posts/Threads
• Private Messages
• Visitor Messages
• Social Groups
• Picture Comments
• Blog Entries
• Blog Comments
• CMS Articles
• CMS Comments

Live Demo at Qapla.com.

There are many options as you can see in the screenshot. You can choose to include the "nofollow" attribute, choose to open links in a new tab, choose to match whole words only or not, specify specific forums, enable in social groups and visitor messages, and disable completely for selected usergroups or styles.

Version: 2.0

• New in 0.91: Limit the number of links created per keyword per post.
• New in 0.92: Use CSS to customize the look of links created by this mod.
• New in 0.93: Linked words now retain the same case as they were originally typed. Also a new option to specify whether linked words are case sensitive or not.
• New in 0.935: Fixed conflict with VBSEO and possibly other mods. Upgrade if you are having problems.
• New in 0.94: Made the "Custom CSS" an option to prevent unnecessary HTML if not needed.
• New in 0.95: Enable or disable in PMs.
• New in 0.96: Should fix conflicts with AME3 mod, restores same case change in 0.93.
• New in 1.0: Additional code to prevent unintended linking. No new features.
• New in 1.1: Set approximate number of max links per page.
• New in 1.2: Fixed bug when Ampersands (&) were used in keywords.
• New in 1.3: Added optional notice on posts with links and associated phrase.
• New in 1.5: Two new features: 1) You can now use a csv data file for your links (and advanced features) if you prefer and 2) You can use a custom user profile field to allow users to disable the mod individually if you choose.
• New in 1.5a: Updated German language file thanks to Igel1.
• New in 1.6: Fixed bug if keyword was part of thread title and thread title was a link in the post. (VB4 Only)
• New in 1.7: Added field to extend the regex easily through the mod settings. Included fix for bold/font color links.
• New in 2.0: Rewritten more efficient code. Added option to disable by styleid. Added GOLD version.

Example... If someone types:

"I bought it on Amazon."

This mod can auto convert it to:

"I bought it on Amazon."

And you would presumably put your Amazon affiliate code, if you had one, in the link.

NOTE: This mod does not alter the actual posts or the database. Disabling or uninstalling the mod will remove all links.

There is a VB3 and VB4 version of this mod, please download the correct version.

Full instructions in zip file.

Notice:
Since the following words are used in HTML tags I would avoid them as keywords:
style, div, class, pre, href, img, html, meta, name, rel, nofollow, and link.

I would also avoid any single letter or two letter keywords since they could easily be used accidentally in places you weren't intending.

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[Trevor Matthews]

Well it has been a week and this mod has been an absolute God send.

I am now linking to other parts of my forum and to external web-sites I run that sell products.

Couldn't be easier to do.

If there was a Mod of the Year this should be the one that wins.

If you don't have this installed get it downloaded now.
It really has been a massive help to me.

[Trevor Matthews]

Donation Sent.

[BirdOPrey5]

Thank you for the donation Trevor- I got your email and am looking into if what you asked is possible. Will get back to you soon. :up:

[Trevor Matthews]

My pleasure and thank you for looking in to the seach issue for me.

[dnk.it]

If this mod will works on cms too should be fantastic!

[craiovaforum]

Does this mod affects the already existing links or only text?

For example, if I have the word amazon, I understand that it will transform it into a link per my settings but if I already have something like this:

"I bought it from amazon" the plugin will try to put a link on the amazon word that already has a link under it?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by dnk.it

If this mod will works on cms too should be fantastic!

It doesn't currently work in the CMS.

Originally Posted by craiovaforum

Does this mod affects the already existing links or only text?

For example, if I have the word amazon, I understand that it will transform it into a link per my settings but if I already have something like this:

"I bought it from amazon" the plugin will try to put a link on the amazon word that already has a link under it?

It will ignore existing links.

[craiovaforum]

Thanks for your reply

Is there any way that I can make it work instead of url-s to put directly the html code?

Because I need to insert a tracking image too, something like this:

<a href="http://domain.com/click.php?ad_client=md5&add_id=id&redirect=">Text</a><img src="http://domain.com/link_track.php?ad_client=md5&add_id=id" alt="" border="0" width="1" height="1" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

[BirdOPrey5]

Does the image you have to put in change depending on the word/link that is made?

If not a fairly easy edit of the plugin code would do... If so it just isn't possible without some significant editing of the mod.

[craiovaforum]

It changes but I managed to do it with this code:

Replaced

       $boplink = $bopspan1 . '<a href="'.trim($boplink).'"' . $bop_target_array[$bopi] . $bop_nofollow_array[$bopi] . ' >$1</a>' . $bopspan2;

with

       $boplink = $bopspan1 .  $bopspan2;

and included instead of the url, the whole html code.

this should work, right?