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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[yjeanrenaud]

great, thanks!

[Alan_SP]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Actually yes you can do a work around in that way. You would need to add a custom BB Code, say call it: [nolink]

Wouldn't noparse BBcode do the trick also? I usually use noparse BBcode. And I think nothing than parses what's inside.

Does your mod parses even text inside noparse BBcode?

[BirdOPrey5]

noparse won't work because this mod works on text AFTER it has already been parsed, because vBulletin stores post-parsed content in its cache.

[tpearl5]

I'm having a little issue with whole word linking when the word is next to a dash (-) character. For example, with 120-300mm, "300mm" is being linked. Any ideas?

[Pure Dope]

i think it would be easy to use this mod to change bad words into images. what do you think? sound like in order to do that youd only change a few lines? i think i could do it though...shouldnt be 2 hard...

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

I'm having a little issue with whole word linking when the word is next to a dash (-) character. For example, with 120-300mm, "300mm" is being linked. Any ideas?

What was supposed to be linked? 120-300mm?

Originally Posted by Pure Dope

i think it would be easy to use this mod to change bad words into images. what do you think? sound like in order to do that youd only change a few lines? i think i could do it though...shouldnt be 2 hard...

Not supported.

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

What was supposed to be linked? 120-300mm?

In this case nothing should be linked, but 120-300mm would link if I had that as a definition.

[addamroy]

Is there anyway to add additional options so I can use some wordlinks with one group of forums/usergroups included/excluded but have another set of wordlinks for a different set of forums/usergroups included/excluded?

I want to be able to show certain wordlinks to guests, but different wordlinks to members.

[AusPhotography]

Great mod, we have it working nicely...
http://www.ausphotography.net.au/for...-site-Keywords

Kym

[AusPhotography]

Not sure why yet, but if you use the CSV file, the last line is ignored.
Workaround... put a dummy last line.

Edit: I had a malformed line in the file with an extra ,
This code caused the problem (well sort of)

   $bop_find_array = array_filter($bop_find_array);
   $bop_find_array = array_values($bop_find_array);

   $bop_replace_array = array_filter($bop_replace_array);
   $bop_replace_array = array_values($bop_replace_array);

The two arrays ended up with a different number of elements.