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:

[Mike_K]

Uninstalled!

It's a very nice mod. But the free version isn't useable because of the limitation of 5 links. This is too less.

And in my opinion 25 - 35 GBP for only one year (!) is too much money for the pro version.

Maybe you will think about your licensing model?

[kermit2]

Originally Posted by Mike_K

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.

Hmm no, it's definitely autolinker_admin.php that was the problem; that was the only file that had changed from 1.0 -> 1.0.1

[kermit2]

Originally Posted by tazattitude

Hello,

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.

It's a security setting in PHP - stops file_get_contents from opening URLs. Eventually we'll probably use cURL as an alternative when PHP is configured like this, but for the meantime I've just suppressed this warning.

If you want to grab v1.0.2 from the first post, it will address this (you'll only need to replace admincp/autolinker.php), but it's only a warning, and not for a particularly important feature (it just checks the latest version of AutoLinker available, and tells you if there's a newer version out)

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"

Hmm, it certainly shouldn't be doing this. Don't suppose you could give me a link to a thread on your forum where this is happening please?

[tazattitude]

I just reuploaded all files inc the product and everything seems to be fine now. It does not show more than the alloted links...great!
Thanks

[Bankfodder]

Originally Posted by Mike_K

Uninstalled!

It's a very nice mod. But the free version isn't useable because of the limitation of 5 links. This is too less.

And in my opinion 25 - 35 GBP for only one year (!) is too much money for the pro version.

Maybe you will think about your licensing model?

I'm not aware that it expires after a year. I think that tech support expires but I don't expect the links to stop working

[kermit2]

Originally Posted by Mike_K

Uninstalled!

And in my opinion 25 - 35 GBP for only one year (!) is too much money for the pro version.

Maybe you will think about your licensing model?

I think you've misunderstood the license. 25 - 35 GBP buys you the full version, with 1 year of updates and support. At the end of that year, AutoLinker will still work, and you can continue using it for as long as you like. You simply won't be entitled to free support or updates. So after the initial purchase, you could use it for years without having to pay anything again.

[Mike_K]

I understand this. But I must calculate that I have to buy every year a new license, because we don't know if the mod is working with VB 4.08, 4.2 ....whatever comes after one year.

I don't say that mod is not worth it. The mod is really professionell made.

But for me it is too much. I do need only 30 - 40 acronyms / autolinks.

So I use furthermore the more simple made Acronym Mod which works fine also with VB 4.02

[kermit2]

That's a good point. We haven't finalised the pricing for renewals yet, but plan on offering a discount of around 50% for existing customers, and obviously that would still be optional

[mandingo]

uhhh.getting this error

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/autolinker/autolinker.php  on line 79

[kermit2]

mandingo: the good news is that it's just a warning, although you shouldn't be seeing it in the first place, as that file has error warning suppressed.

It looks as if either you hadn't assigned a template to your link, or the link had no keywords.

Anyway, I've added some error checking to that file, which will stop that warning from happening. So the latest version (1.0.3 - link in the first post) will address this. You'd just need to upload the revised autolinker.php