I am pretty cool that this package should be the final release. I have spent about 50 hours recoding this from the ground up but want a green light from you guys before I stick it in the current release thread.
In a nutshell this system replaces any keywords in posts with specific replacements (no, not like replacements in vb). It will do anything form simply link keywords all the way to produce poup boxes when doing a mouseover keywords.
The popups now support bbcode, html, multiple styles, titles, etc...
Other new features:
Track impressions, track hits, limit categories to certain forums, have usergroups toggle on.off certain forums, blahblahblahblah.
Basically its GAL 3 on Steroids.
O yea, the replacments are also a bit smarter
Upgrading:
From 2.6 and 3.0
Follow the install instructions in the readme. When you start up gal4_install.php, follow the upgrade path.
Please note that any replacement codes you added in 3.0 will go byebye. These are NOT your gal items... they are the global, category, or item level replacments that looked like something like this:
<a href="$link" title="$description">$text</a>
I would be shocked if anyone had more than 1 or 2 of these. If you modified them in any particular way - just copy them into notepad... run the install... then create new ones with the new system. REMEMBER: YOUR EXISTING GAL LINKS WILL BE PORTED SAFELY OVER!!!
Check out the extensive readme for details.
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The replacement codes that wont get ported over were at global, category and item level and looked something like this:
<a href="$link" target='blank' title='$description'>$text</a>
Those wont make it over to the new version but you can add them in later is you have tweaked ones. If you didnt tweak them, dont worry about them.
All your existing keywords etc... will get ported over when you upgrade.
The replacement codes that wont get ported over were at global, category and item level and looked something like this:
<a href="$link" target='blank' title='$description'>$text</a>
Those wont make it over to the new version but you can add them in later is you have tweaked ones. If you didnt tweak them, dont worry about them.
All your existing keywords etc... will get ported over when you upgrade.
Oh I did use these for the popups to work, can I just use the same ones again?:
yea - just copy them to notepad or something for now.
BTW - some of the column changes to geek_Autolinker do not appear to be happening... Hold off until further notice. I need to investigate
BTW: Its worth noting that your replacement codes are going to go byebye from version 3.0 as there is a new way of doing it.
If you had custom replacement codes - you may want to copy them down first.
Damnit, I have 900+ replacement codes. Is there a way to transfer them over? I can't simply copy them and paste them back into the system one-by-one again. Argh!
Damnit, I have 900+ replacement codes. Is there a way to transfer them over? I can't simply copy them and paste them back into the system one-by-one again. Argh!
New package uploaded which fixed some db typos.
Orange: All your links are fine.... the codes will disappear. I would be shocked if anyone had more than 1 or 2 replacement codes.
Geek, very important question. Someone made for me a script that grabs name, url, id and description from vbaLinks and with a click, after edit I insert them in appropriate gal fields. This way, I have hudreds of gal links inserted on the fly.
Question: has anyone of those fields in gal changed?
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