Geek Auto-Linker 4.5 LITE

From the makers of O and yea comes the eagerly awaited LITE version of Geek Auto-Linker.

GAL is a revolution in dynamic schwizzelsisting for vBulletin 3.5x and dramatically improved from earlier versions to be faster and more efficient.

Package updated 05/12/05

• Fixes ordinal (order) of replacements

What does it do?

GAL scans posts at run time and automatically hyperlinks pre defined key words of your own creation! Thats right... every time someone types in toe jam, GAL can automatically link it to any URL you can dream of.
In fact, GAL will link several variations on toe jam (or whatever keywords you happen to use).

GAL 4.5 has improved its matchmaking abilities and now matches words returned from searches (though only single key words with no spaces due to vB limitations) and formatted words too! (which it never could before).

There are no file changes, no template changes and currently 1 query (as there is no freaking way to cache the datastore yet). Anyhooo - thar she blows.

For those wanting to have the news module in their vbaCMPS module auto-link... here is a teeny tutorial on it

Click install if you indeed install or you may be mocked publicly for it.

Please note that this is a free LITE version of the PRO version. Therefore there is no hovering popups, stats, impression tracking, BBcode in descriptions, etc...

nJoy

[paulfletcher]

I'm really confused... lol. I have the Pro version of this, and I've been trying to get those wikipedia images next to our links. I see the code that has been posted a few pages back, but where do I put that code in the software? In Styles, Replacements, Descriptions ??? So confused :-( lol...

Thanks,
Paul Fletcher

[ryancooper]

WOW THis hack is AWESOME! I will definatally install this once I upgrade! Thanks;;;

[paulfletcher]

My problem is fixed now.

[ryancooper]

Originally Posted by Curzon564

Finally I found this hack (thanks to andreas). \o/

Unfortunately there is a 'little' problem after installing it.

As it seems only the words in the first post get replaced.

If you want, you can see it here quite well:
http://www.board.eternal-chronicles....ead.php?t=4835

In the first Post "RW" gets replaced, in the second it doesn't.

I installed this in my test board and I have the same problem. It only replaces the words in the first post? Any help??

[tansu]

It didn't work in my forum too. I think there is an include problem while page is loading.

When i ctrl+refresh the browser and send message with quick replay, it works

But when i quote a message and send same word it doesn't work.

[mawby]

Hi,

I seem to have the same problem reported by others. I have added the expression "Turbo Timer" into my system.

When I create a new thread with that expression in it gets turned into a link as expected. If I then create a new post using the Quick Reply (AJAX) option then that post too gets displayed correctly with the links in. If I use the tradional Post Reply option then when the thread is redisplayed only the expressions in the first post are changed into links. This applies to all posts, even those that previously worked after a Quick Reply. If, however, I link directly to a post (which isn't the first post) then the expressions get changed into links correctly.

Time for an example. Here is a thread which has two posts, both containing the only expression I have at the moment. As can be seen only the first one gets expanded. However, if I link directly to the second post then it works for that second post, as here.

In my settings I have "Limit replacements per post?" set to zero. I have tried using the Maintenance -> Debug -> Rebuild option and that doesn't fix it.

Any clues as to why this only seems to work on the first post being displayed?

Also, the option to "Ignore thread" doesn't work either.

Any help greatly appreciated. If it's of any relavance I'm running on PHP version 5.0.5.

[The Geek]

huh. Not 100% sure to be totaly honest. Ill try to get to it over the weekend if I can.

[mawby]

Originally Posted by The Geek

huh. Not 100% sure to be totaly honest. Ill try to get to it over the weekend if I can.

Thanks, that will be great.

[The Geek]

mawby. I havent had time to even test this change, nor am I sure it will even do what you're after. I just wanted to give it a shot before I head out of town so dont sue me if it doesnt work

In your geek/gal/includes/gal_class_core.php file, change the entire process_text function to this:

PHP Code:

    function process_text(&$text)
    {


        static $find;
        static $replace;
        static $cached;
        static $settings;

        if (!$cached)
        {
            $settings =& $this->settings;
            $find   =& $settings['data']['text'];
            $replace=& $settings['data']['replacement'];
            $find[] = "|<!--GAL-->|";
            $replace[] = "";
            $cached = 1;
        }
        if ($settings['limit'] < 1)
        {
            $settings['limit'] = -1;
        }
        if ($find)
        {
            $text = preg_replace($find, $replace, " " . $text, $settings['limit']);
        }
        return $text;
    } 


Now, I guess youre kind of SOL if you don't know what I mean there - all I can do is apologize in advance

Once again - I havent even tested the above to see if it works let alone fixes your problem.

Hope this helps anyway

[mawby]

Cheers, I'll give it a try this very minute......