Geek AutoLinker 4.02

HowdA All,

Welcome to Geek Autolinker 4.0 from the makers of Geek Autolinker 2.0 and Tang - the stuff the people in space drink.

posts for version 4.0 start here

What it does:
It allows you to specify key words to replace in posts with ANY FREAKING URL YOU COULD THINK OF. Thats right, you to can now have key words automatically url'ed to other areas of the world wide web.

Now in 4.0 you can create popups, track impressions and click-thrus, get statistics on them and specify more attributes of the links. The popups can now also use bbcode to create virtually any kind of popup you could imagine. You can limit categories of links to certain forums and also enable specific usergroups to toggle GALs on or off (by category).


This is a perfect gift for sponsors, click throughs, referal programs, definitions, instructions, birthdays and other celebrations.

Example:
If I define Bob as a keyword that I would like to automatically come up hyperlinked to bob.com all I have to do is say so (well, you put it into the admincp). Presto! As quick as that, everytime a user sees the word bob, bobs, bob! Bob bOb? etc... it comes up linked to bob.com

How much will bob love you?

If the url you want it to jump to is actually a thread on your site, you can use the nifty ignorethreadid option. Heres how that works:

If I have a thread entitled Reputation and how to use it, I can put the word reputation into the Geek AutoLinker with the URL pointing to the thread about reputation. Then everytime the word reputation appears in someones post, anyone can click on it to learn more. Since it would be stupid to have the thread Reputation and how to use it autolink to itself, I put the threadid in the ignorethreadid box. That way all matches for reputation are linked to that thread except for the reputation matches in the thread Reputation and how to use it.

Safe mode and dangerous mode.

There are now two modes of operation. Safe mode will autolink any match AS LONG AS IT HAS A SPACE BEFORE IT. That means that <br />bob or .Bob are not valid matches and wont be highlighted. The reason for this is to prevent the autolinker messing up URLs with matches in them (like www.bob.com). Safe mode will most likely end up with fewer matches, but no messed up URLS.
Dangerous mode however could care less about your cute little spaces. It will link them regardless. That means more matches, but a slight increase that an existing url might break in a post.

Here are some examples in action.
Keyword: freak

Safe mode.
Freak out whenever freaks freak about on www.freak.com
Dangerous mode:
Freak out whenever freaks freak about on www.<a href="www.freak.com">freak</a>.com

Other stuff:

• Category management - allows you to override global settings
• Limit - limit the number of replacements per link per post
• Ordinal - organise the order replacments are made
• Customize your own replacment code on a global, catergory, or individual level.
• The installer is a prototype GISH installer that does the file edits for you. Please check the readme for details on how it works - its pretty cool).

Upgrading

• Download, replace all existing files with new ones.
• Run the gal4_install.php file (in your admincp)
• Follow the upgrade path.
• The system will ahve you manullay chage any files it can not find to update.

DEMO: http://www.thenailgeek.com/showthread.php?t=11011 (note the words MMA and PREP. If you follow to MMA you will notice that MMA isnt linked in the final article thanks to ignorethreadid)

Difficulty: Easy
File mods: 4 simple ones
Added queries: 0 or greater depending on your settings

Updated 10.5.05 - Major
Massive update in functionality

Updated 13.4.05 - Major
Massive update in functionality

Update 25.03.05 - oops!
Changed readme addition to functions_showthread.php Things look good now

Updates 25.05.05 to v.204 - sneaky bug
Thanks to Razz - I found 2 minor typos that end up causing people working in safemode to actually be working in danger mode! To upgrade, simply check out this post

Updated 12.2.05 to v. 2.03 - ultra minor
Fixed a typo in readme. To upgrade, al you need to do is edit admincp/index,
do a search for
construct_nav_option($vbphrase['GAL_add_new'], 'GAL_admin.php?do=create');
and replace with
construct_nav_option($vbphrase['GAL_add_new'], 'GAL_admin.php?do=add');

Updated 11.2.05 - ultra minor
Fixed a typo in README (dont worry, it wasnt in the instructions)
Stopped phrase text spitting out during install. Some of the phrase is html so it looked confusing to new installers.
Removed reference to GAS3 settings in the install. This is because its the same installer. Just forgot to remove that line.
All in all, this was just a typo fix. There is no upgrade because there are no problems with the code.

Updated 10.2.05 - minor
Found a couple typos that affect safe mode.
Nothing major - just replace the GAL_admin.php file

Updated 10.2.05 - Major
Completely re-written.
See README for upgrade instructions.

Update 10.2.05 - minor
Updated include/geek_autolink.php as it was missing a table_prefix
To upgrade, download latest package and replace your geek_autolink file.


nJoy

[jcr]

I upgraded to the lates version, but now the safe-mode does not work at all?

See this post for exactly what I mean ( well it should, but does not )

http://www.bareprat.com/showpost.php...29&postcount=8

The above does not work at all,

But this:
http://www.bareprat.com/showthread.p...129#post232129

Shows you exactly what i mean..

[zachlee]

Is it possiable to us a JS command with GAL?

ie,

onmouseover="window.status='Football-Forums.com Affiliate';

If so, how/where would I place it, to make it work.

[The Geek]

JCR - hey man - I totaly missed your post - sorry about that. Can you try rebuiling in dager mode for me and ill check the link again. There are snippets of the HTML that looks odd.

Zachlee - yea you can - you can find the html in the GAL_admin.php file (under redbuild_datastore)

[agiacosa]

Hi,

I have a situation where I need to provide auto links to the following:

rotala macranda
rotala rotundifolia
rotala wallichii

Is it possible to have the system link each one to a different link or is it going to link all three to the same link? Do I need to put it into some sort of order?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by agiacosa

Hi,

I have a situation where I need to provide auto links to the following:

rotala macranda
rotala rotundifolia
rotala wallichii

Is it possible to have the system link each one to a different link or is it going to link all three to the same link? Do I need to put it into some sort of order?

each link can be seperate and wont cause a problem as each keyword is different.

however if you had rotala as a keyword too, then you would want that last as it will replace all the others first, then the single rotala.

If that makes sense

[Lionel]

I have an idea for mass auto-linking, using vbalinks and geekarticles (I use for biographies etc...)

1-we alter table links add new field gal_linked.

2-we do a query, select title, url where gal_linked=0

3-we get the result in a new editable page where we can alter title, and a checkmark to select it.

4-and on submit, we update auto link with those values while setting gal_linked = 1 in links table

same thing for Articles.

Sound simple, right?

I don't know how to do it!!! But I know it should be less than 5 minutes.

[Lizard King]

Originally Posted by Lionel

I have an idea for mass auto-linking, using vbalinks and geekarticles (I use for biographies etc...)

1-we alter table links add new field gal_linked.

2-we do a query, select title, url where gal_linked=0

3-we get the result in a new editable page where we can alter title, and a checkmark to select it.

4-and on submit, we update auto link with those values while setting gal_linked = 1 in links table

same thing for Articles.

Sound simple, right?

I don't know how to do it!!! But I know it should be less than 5 minutes.

Maybe it might be possible to search this query for some forums thread name . Instead of writing one by one this might be way easier to use and it will give vbulletin'e complete new face.

[memobug]

TNG, Three questions before I try installing this, please:

1. could you explain this statement on the README in the context of now having safe mode, is it still true?

Can really mess up some hyperlinks. For example, if a post has www.bob.com/my_bestlink.html and you have bestlink as an autolink... it will mess up the original hyperlink.
Curernlty I have no way to prevent this apart from prayers. Interestingly, it happens very seldom.

2. Does this actually alter the post text or does it simply modify the output as it is being displayed? That is if it turns out to be a problem can we just uninstall the hack without worrying that the data have been linked?

3. What does someone who edits a thread that contains autolinks see in the editor? ANSWER - It's fine it the autolink doesn't show in the editor!

Thanks a lot.

Matt

[memobug]

Note on installation

Step 4.1 says

// *************************************************
if (can_administer('canadminstyles'))

but in vb3.07 I have

// *************************************************

$printhr = false;
if (can_administer('canadminstyles'))

I put the the insertion before the comment bit.


2. Also - the CSS for the autolinks is still missing in the download.

3. Any idea why the sequence

, keyword
. keyword

(that is comma-space-keyword or period-space-keyword) doesn't autolink the keyword?

Regards,

Matt

[trainer]

will these both link

name and Name - will this hack treat these as the same? even with the first letter capitalized?