Major Additions - AutoLinker Lite, keyword linker for vBulletin 3.7 and 4.x, and vbcms

AutoLinker Lite is a keyword linker for vBulletin 3.7 upwards, 4.x, and vBulletin CMS. It allows the webmaster to configure particular words or phrases as keywords, which will then be automatically linked when they appear in user posts. As well as being hyperlinked, keywords can have pop-over info boxes, as in the image below:



These info boxes are highly configurable (colours, borders, fade in/fade out effect etc), and can contain html - meaning you can embed images, videos etc. Balloon-style boxes are also supported.

AutoLinker Lite has a flexible permissions system, allowing you to control which forums a given link appears in, and which usergroups it is visible too.

This is a free version of a commercial product, and contains a limit on the number of AutoLinks that you may create. Other than that, it is fully functional.

Please note that AutoLinks in the CMS do not work in vBulletin 4.0.0 and 4.0.1. 4.0.2 and upwards are fine.

A couple more images to hopefully whet your appetite:

Some of the things you can do with HTML:



Admin control panel:

[angeljs]

What does 'remember to escape double quotes' mean?

[kermit2]

Originally Posted by angeljs

What does 'remember to escape double quotes' mean?

Sorry, it means that if you use double quotes inside the 'content' box, they need to be escaped with a slash - eg \" rather than just "

[Alfa1]

Thanks for the explanation.

[soundbarrierpro]

Bought it, using it with currently over 1,000 links made.

By far and away one of the top mods made. This thing is awesome!

*Installed/Nominated

[Mike_K]

It works for me in the standard settings.

But if I want to edit a display template the following DB error comes:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE `autolinker_templates` SET title="test", tname="test",
style="font-style:Normal;text-decoration:Underline;text-transform:None;font-size:100%;color:#000000;", image="1", mouseover="popup", href="none", link_target="_top",
bgcolor="#DDDDDD", bordercolor="#000000", borderwidth="1", padding="500", windowtitle="", shadow="0",
sticky="1", titlebar="1", opacity="95", fadein="300", fadeout="300",
WHERE id="1";

MySQL-Fehler : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE id="1"' at line 5
Fehler-Nr. : 1064
Fehler-Zeit : Monday, 05.04.2010 @ 11:38:10
Datum : Monday, 05.04.2010 @ 11:38:10
Skript : http://www.domain.de/test/admincp/au...updatetemplate
Referrer : http://www.domain.de/test/admincp/au...ttemplate&id=1
IP-Adresse : 11111.1.111..1111
Benutzername : Mike
Klassenname : vB_Database
MySQL-Version : 5.0.51a-24+lenny2+spu1

[RedPoint]

Error when i edit a template

Datenbankfehler in vBulletin 4.0.2:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE `vb3_autolinker_templates` SET  title="server", tname="server",
                                        style="font-style:Normal;text-decoration:None;text-transform:None;font-size:100%;", image="2", mouseover="popup", href="link", link_target="_blank",
                                        bgcolor="#DDDDDD", bordercolor="#363D9C", borderwidth="1", padding="500", windowtitle="", shadow="1",
                                        sticky="1", titlebar="1", opacity="95", fadein="300", fadeout="300", 
                                         WHERE id="1";

MySQL-Fehler  : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE id="1"' at line 5
Fehler-Nr.    : 1064
Fehler-Zeit   : Monday, 05.04.2010 @ 11:51:48
Datum         : Monday, 05.04.2010 @ 11:51:49
Skript        : http://www.xyz.ro/forum/admincp/autolinker_admin.php?do=updatetemplate
Referrer      : http://www.xyz.ro/forum/admincp/autolinker_admin.php?do=edittemplate&id=1
IP-Adresse    : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Benutzername  : XYZ
Klassenname   : vB_Database
MySQL-Version : 5.0.26-log

[kermit2]

Mike_K, RedPoint : sorry about that, you've both found the same bug. I've fixed it and uploaded version 1.0.1 (the link is on the first post in the thread).

You won't need to reinstall to apply the fix - just extract the zip file, and upload admincp/autolinker.php (overwriting the existing file). No need to upload any of other files

[RedPoint]

thanks, its run now

[tazattitude]

Hello,
Looks like a nice add-on!

I installed it and am getting an error on the top of the admin settings page

Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in [path]/a_control_panel/autolinker_admin.php  on line 1039

Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.autolinker.com/latest_lite.txt) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in [path]/a_control_panel/autolinker_admin.php on line 1039

Any idea what is causing this. It's only on the admin settings page.
I changed the cpanel to a_control_panel, not for sure if this caused the error.

Also, when I set "number of autolinks to show in any post" to 1, it does only show one autolink, but it still highlights all the other keywords... but does not link them. Is there a way not do do both once it's pass the specified amount of autolinks per post (not to link AND not to highlight).
It would be nice to limit it per "thread"

[Mike_K]

Originally Posted by kermit2

You won't need to reinstall to apply the fix - just extract the zip file, and upload admincp/autolinker.php (overwriting the existing file). No need to upload any of other files

Now it works, thank you. But you meant autolinker.php ind the folder /autolinker ?
Only updating the file in the admincdp (autolinker_admin.php) didn't solve the problem.