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

[memobug]

Originally Posted by zachlee

I tried looking at the code as well to implement this, but came up short. I would LOVE to be able to hide affiliate links.

If your goal is to hide affiliate URLs you can use tinyurls (free) or set up your own referrer program that will actually count clickthrus. Maybe you can find a free one of those, but these guys are pretty good:

http://www.cgiscript.net/cgi-script/...=viewone&id=70

Regards,

Matt

[007]

That reminds me of something that would be sweet. What if the auto linker counted clicks? That would be awesome!

[The Geek]

I will add the status bar js to the next release. As far as the click throughs - this has been mentioned before - but really isnt in the scope for this. Saying that... its a cinch to do. Maybe I will throw that into the next release as well.

[fly]

Has a timeout feature been asked or addressed in this thread? I can't seem to find it if it has. I'd like the links to stop working, say after 30 days...

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by flypaper

Has a timeout feature been asked or addressed in this thread? I can't seem to find it if it has. I'd like the links to stop working, say after 30 days...

Hey Fly.
This feature has not been asked for. May be interesting to have - but that would require and additional field (expiry) and a cron job to rebuild the datastore.
Not overly difficult, but it wont make it into the next release if thats cool.

[mekro]

Hi

I have installed this on my yugioh site, however i have noticed a problem and that is i would like to link card names that are used in posts to link to the actual cards in the card database, i setup 2 test links however found a problem:

If i set it up to recognize the word: exodia it links to it fine, however if i try to set it up to regonize: "exodia the forbidden one" it does not link it in the post, is there a way to make it do so?

Thanks
Kirk

[fly]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Hey Fly.
This feature has not been asked for. May be interesting to have - but that would require and additional field (expiry) and a cron job to rebuild the datastore.
Not overly difficult, but it wont make it into the next release if thats cool.

Thats cool. Thanks man. I need a bunch of stuff to expire, like usergroups, for other stuff. So your code will really help, as I am unable to write my own code. irate: Thanks man!

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by mekro

Hi

I have installed this on my yugioh site, however i have noticed a problem and that is i would like to link card names that are used in posts to link to the actual cards in the card database, i setup 2 test links however found a problem:

If i set it up to recognize the word: exodia it links to it fine, however if i try to set it up to regonize: "exodia the forbidden one" it does not link it in the post, is there a way to make it do so?

Thanks
Kirk

Hey Kirk - the replacements are made in a first come first serve bassis. If you edit those 2 links and do the longer one first, it will link it.
That or wait until next version (any day now) as that will allow you to specify the order of replacement.

HTH's

[The Geek]

The RC1 of GAL 3.00 has been released over here.

[Yehuda]

hi,

I installed the hack and it works great. Only one problem...after instalation, it changed the behaviour of my admin CP.

when I click on an option (on the left hand side), it opens on a new window as opposed to opening on the same page (on the right hand side).

How can I fix this?