Geek AutoLinker 4.02

HowdA All,

Welcome to Geek Autolinker 4.0 from the makers of Geek Autolinker 2.0 and Tang - the stuff the people in space drink.

posts for version 4.0 start here

What it does:
It allows you to specify key words to replace in posts with ANY FREAKING URL YOU COULD THINK OF. Thats right, you to can now have key words automatically url'ed to other areas of the world wide web.

Now in 4.0 you can create popups, track impressions and click-thrus, get statistics on them and specify more attributes of the links. The popups can now also use bbcode to create virtually any kind of popup you could imagine. You can limit categories of links to certain forums and also enable specific usergroups to toggle GALs on or off (by category).


This is a perfect gift for sponsors, click throughs, referal programs, definitions, instructions, birthdays and other celebrations.

Example:
If I define Bob as a keyword that I would like to automatically come up hyperlinked to bob.com all I have to do is say so (well, you put it into the admincp). Presto! As quick as that, everytime a user sees the word bob, bobs, bob! Bob bOb? etc... it comes up linked to bob.com

How much will bob love you?

If the url you want it to jump to is actually a thread on your site, you can use the nifty ignorethreadid option. Heres how that works:

If I have a thread entitled Reputation and how to use it, I can put the word reputation into the Geek AutoLinker with the URL pointing to the thread about reputation. Then everytime the word reputation appears in someones post, anyone can click on it to learn more. Since it would be stupid to have the thread Reputation and how to use it autolink to itself, I put the threadid in the ignorethreadid box. That way all matches for reputation are linked to that thread except for the reputation matches in the thread Reputation and how to use it.

Safe mode and dangerous mode.

There are now two modes of operation. Safe mode will autolink any match AS LONG AS IT HAS A SPACE BEFORE IT. That means that <br />bob or .Bob are not valid matches and wont be highlighted. The reason for this is to prevent the autolinker messing up URLs with matches in them (like www.bob.com). Safe mode will most likely end up with fewer matches, but no messed up URLS.
Dangerous mode however could care less about your cute little spaces. It will link them regardless. That means more matches, but a slight increase that an existing url might break in a post.

Here are some examples in action.
Keyword: freak

Safe mode.
Freak out whenever freaks freak about on www.freak.com
Dangerous mode:
Freak out whenever freaks freak about on www.<a href="www.freak.com">freak</a>.com

Other stuff:

• Category management - allows you to override global settings
• Limit - limit the number of replacements per link per post
• Ordinal - organise the order replacments are made
• Customize your own replacment code on a global, catergory, or individual level.
• The installer is a prototype GISH installer that does the file edits for you. Please check the readme for details on how it works - its pretty cool).

Upgrading

• Download, replace all existing files with new ones.
• Run the gal4_install.php file (in your admincp)
• Follow the upgrade path.
• The system will ahve you manullay chage any files it can not find to update.

DEMO: http://www.thenailgeek.com/showthread.php?t=11011 (note the words MMA and PREP. If you follow to MMA you will notice that MMA isnt linked in the final article thanks to ignorethreadid)

Difficulty: Easy
File mods: 4 simple ones
Added queries: 0 or greater depending on your settings

Updated 10.5.05 - Major
Massive update in functionality

Updated 13.4.05 - Major
Massive update in functionality

Update 25.03.05 - oops!
Changed readme addition to functions_showthread.php Things look good now

Updates 25.05.05 to v.204 - sneaky bug
Thanks to Razz - I found 2 minor typos that end up causing people working in safemode to actually be working in danger mode! To upgrade, simply check out this post

Updated 12.2.05 to v. 2.03 - ultra minor
Fixed a typo in readme. To upgrade, al you need to do is edit admincp/index,
do a search for
construct_nav_option($vbphrase['GAL_add_new'], 'GAL_admin.php?do=create');
and replace with
construct_nav_option($vbphrase['GAL_add_new'], 'GAL_admin.php?do=add');

Updated 11.2.05 - ultra minor
Fixed a typo in README (dont worry, it wasnt in the instructions)
Stopped phrase text spitting out during install. Some of the phrase is html so it looked confusing to new installers.
Removed reference to GAS3 settings in the install. This is because its the same installer. Just forgot to remove that line.
All in all, this was just a typo fix. There is no upgrade because there are no problems with the code.

Updated 10.2.05 - minor
Found a couple typos that affect safe mode.
Nothing major - just replace the GAL_admin.php file

Updated 10.2.05 - Major
Completely re-written.
See README for upgrade instructions.

Update 10.2.05 - minor
Updated include/geek_autolink.php as it was missing a table_prefix
To upgrade, download latest package and replace your geek_autolink file.


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[zachlee]

Originally Posted by The Geek

As far as the CMPS thing - it wouldnt really be too hard. You just need to find where the post text is parsed and put the function_showthread code there. In fact, I thought it already used functions_showthread to parse bbcode - however its hard to say as I am on the road and away from all my code right now.

Geek,

I still have been unable to incorporate GAL into my CMPS index.

www.football-forums.com

When you have a moment (no hurry at all) could you take a peek, and see what I would need to add. I am having no luck at all, and at this point I dont want to break anything.

Thanks!
-Zach

[OrangeFlea]

Sorry flea - are you saying that new entries seem to be in safe mode? Im not quite getting you

I should have been clear. Sometimes when I'm browsing the forum I notice that certain words or phrases aren't hyperlinked, and I know for sure that I added them into the keyword library. I go into admincp and confirm, and when I put the hack in "danger mode" again the words and phrases I noted earlier are fixed (hyperlinked). It's as if the thing goes to "safe mode" all by itself or something, and I have to regularly put it back to its "danger mode."

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by OrangeFlea

I should have been clear. Sometimes when I'm browsing the forum I notice that certain words or phrases aren't hyperlinked, and I know for sure that I added them into the keyword library. I go into admincp and confirm, and when I put the hack in "danger mode" again the words and phrases I noted earlier are fixed (hyperlinked). It's as if the thing goes to "safe mode" all by itself or something, and I have to regularly put it back to its "danger mode."

hmmm. Thats odd. Ill look into that.

[zachlee]

Geek,

another general question... Is there anything that can block where the URL is going to (in the status bar). So that all links will display in the status bar...

"Link opens in new window, outside of [insert website name here]"

Instead of the basic url information.

Thanks Again!!

[greenhybrid]

Originally Posted by The Geek

greenhybrid: Make sure the longer is in the system first.
The order that they are put in is the order they are matched.

That doesn't seem to have worked. I tried long-to-short, and then backwards. In both instances, only the shortest would be linked.

[greenhybrid]

Okay, I was able to do it by sorting by id asc in the mysql query. It creates nested links, but still works fine. On the flip side, I had to take out my title='Learn more about $result[text]' because it was interfering

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Hey Alex, it looks like you may have an older package. Pre 2.0, there was a fucntions_geek_autolink.php file. Since then the function is inline.

I also went through the code and there are TABL_PREFIX's for all calls so once again I suspect an older version.

I did however find a typo in the changes to your admincp/index.php file. I updated the readme and noted the changes in the first post (basically replace the GAL_admin.php?do=create with GAL_admin.php?do=add

Thanks for that!

can you belive from a install today I got the same error.

[T3MEDIA]

CRAP! why wouldnt you guys post the db info here? I went thru all the pages.
not one.

I have no idea why people on vb do stuff like "yeah I got it to work thanks"
and dont put what they had to do to get it right. AND I dont mean "yeah I just had to mod my db schema"

freakin guys man.

Geek bro the installer gave me the same db error on a install on today's date.

[zachlee]

CRAP! why wouldnt you guys post the db info here? I went thru all the pages.
not one.

Are you refering to the problem, of the geek_autolink tables not being created when running the install.php? The following:

'CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `' . TABLE_PREFIX . 'geek_autolink` (
	              `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
	              `text` varchar(25) NOT NULL default \'\',
	              `link` varchar(250) NOT NULL default \'\',
	              `ignorethread` int(11) NOT NULL default \'0\',
	              PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)

Can be found in the install.php file. Using phpmyadmin or webmin (or any mysql utility) to create those tables with the information provided (in install.php) and GAL will work perfectly.

[The Geek]

Hey guys. I am not sure what the problem is. It looks like there is no table created during the install.
I have just tested this about 50 ways with a new 3.07 and not had a problem so I am wondering if maybe it has to do with mysql and support for the create table if not exists? Not sure so I removed the test anyway. DB errors are shut off so it wont bomb out if there is a table or not.

Anyway... like I said the only thing I could think of?!?