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

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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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[Kolbi]

Third notice (just saw the update):

Why not using the class attribut instead of adding a span?

Instead of:

<span class="boplink"><a href="'.trim($boplink).'"' . $boptarg . $bopnofollow . ' >' . $bop_find_array[$bopi] .'</a></span>

try:

<a class="boplink" href="'.trim($boplink).'"' . $boptarg . $bopnofollow . ' >' . $bop_find_array[$bopi] .'</a>

I guess the span tag may be xhtml invalid... (not tested but I guess it can be...)

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Kolbi

Have 2 notices:

The number of keyword replaces seems not to work. Tried 1 or 2 replaces but all keywords (3 times) were replaced...

Another little question perhaps you make it case sensitive?

Because the first word in a sentence is written in big letters for example, but the word in a senctence is written in small letters:
"The school is over! So the pupil are on the way home."
If I now want to replace "the" with "<a hre="/">the</a>" it will be:
"<a hre="/">the</a> school is over! So <a hre="/">the</a> pupil are on <a hre="/">the</a> way home."
So the first word is now written in small letters...

1) It's 1 match per keyword. If your keywords are red, blue, green and your limit is 1, the sentence: "I like red, blue, and green." will still see 3 links. The sentence "I have a red hat, a red coat, and red shoes." will have only 1 link.

2) I can probably get it to match the case of the word it was linking, keeping the original case format. It would still be case insensitive when finding words. Actually I can make that an option too.

Originally Posted by Kolbi

Third notice (just saw the update):

Why not using the class attribut instead of adding a span?

Instead of:

<span class="boplink"><a href="'.trim($boplink).'"' . $boptarg . $bopnofollow . ' >' . $bop_find_array[$bopi] .'</a></span>

try:

<a class="boplink" href="'.trim($boplink).'"' . $boptarg . $bopnofollow . ' >' . $bop_find_array[$bopi] .'</a>

I guess the span tag may be xhtml invalid... (not tested but I guess it can be...)

Mostly because putting the class in the a tag didn't work in my test. Does it work for you?

[Kolbi]

1) Is the limitation per post or page? Tried it with several posts on one page. Not with the same word mulitple in one post.

2) The solution with the original case format would propably be the best.

3) Normally it should work. Will try it later on.

[BirdOPrey5]

1) per post

2) Will post when I update the mod

3) I thought so too but it didn't. This site suggested spans were needed: http://www.echoecho.com/csslinks.htm

[Brandon Sheley]

great mod, I know it's one that's been asked for years

[for5up]

not working on my 4.1.3

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by for5up

not working on my 4.1.3

I'm going to need more info then that to help... What isn't working?
Did it install?
Did you set "enable" to Yes?
Can you paste here a list of the keywords and URL's you are using?
What actually happens- nothing? Bad links? Error code?

Link to a post if possible?

[BirdOPrey5]

Updated to 0.93

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.

[Kolbi]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

1) per post

2) Will post when I update the mod

3) I thought so too but it didn't. This site suggested spans were needed: http://www.echoecho.com/csslinks.htm

1) Maybe you can add a setting to define the replaced keywords per page?

How many times of each keyword shall be replaced per page?
How many keywords (whole keywords added above) shall be replaced on one page?

2) Thank you, will try it out.

3) Can't test it, it seems that your new version isn't working anymore? Can't get it working on vB 4.1.2. It doesn't replaces the keywords with the links?

[BirdOPrey5]

Very weird... I just re-uploaded the exact code I just tested on a 4.1.2 forum. Please try again. Also I uploaded the older version just in case.

Please let me know.