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.


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[Yehuda]

Originally Posted by The Geek

can you post some screen shots? I am not sure how adding a menu group would cause that kind of problem you are mentioning.

I have attached the screenshot...as you can see...there is nothing on the right hand side...just empty space and when I click on a link, it opens in a new window

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Yehuda

I have attached the screenshot...as you can see...there is nothing on the right hand side...just empty space and when I click on a link, it opens in a new window

You got me.
It looks like you have totally lost your frameset.

Why dont you backup your current version and re-upload a fresh one.
If that works fine, then re-add the code and see what happens.
The change to admincp/index.php just simply couldnt have caused this.

Also - check to see if the phrases were built correctly. So a phrase search for GAL_ as the variable... edit it... then click save and see if that helps.

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by The Geek

ah... gotcha. I used to do that. It works... but the trade off is that the following doesnt get picked up with a trailing space:
bobs
bob.
bob!
bob?
etc...

The leading space is the best 2nd option. Where that fails is:
Bob at the start of a paragraph
or .Bob at the start of a sentence with no space (or other mark like ").

So, it is a bit of a trade off. If you want less likely to screw up links... add the spaces (I would add only one space). However in over 2 years of using this... I have only had about 3 screwed up links. Saying that... it could be more for sponsored links. Take eBay for example. You can autolink all ebays, however any user linking to www.ebay.com would have their link broken.

Maybe an option is in order!

What do you guys think? Option to turn on leading space? Personally, I would opt out of training space becasue of punctuation issues.

With this hack can I (I guess I will find out soon) do this:
Replace text: [joe, joey, friends, comedy tv] and all wil goto the same URL?

[T3MEDIA]

Odd did I miss it or not? Where are the directions to actually use this?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by T3MEDIA

Odd did I miss it or not? Where are the directions to actually use this?

Did you try the Readme?

As far as your previous question... it will do, however each word is a seperate entry.
You may also be interested in teh GAL3 that is in the beta forum. It has a lot more functionality as is about to go gold later today or tomorrow. I think its pretty much in its completed state.

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Did you try the Readme?

As far as your previous question... it will do, however each word is a seperate entry.
You may also be interested in teh GAL3 that is in the beta forum. It has a lot more functionality as is about to go gold later today or tomorrow. I think its pretty much in its completed state.

well my question is can I do that in one line not 4-5 speperate entries... no I did not look at the read me I did not install it as of yet. I tried a long time ago and had a DB issue.

[Tom1234]

Originally Posted by The Geek

As far as your previous question... it will do, however each word is a seperate entry.

This is a case where using regular expressions would be useful such as a "replace text" field of:
(joe|joey|friends|comedy tv)

I haven't tried the above. I don't know if we can use regexps here.

[The Geek]

sure. It would be handy - however most users are not offay with regexps and I think it would complicate it more than it needs to be.
I can see the merit in almost an 'import' option where you can enter delimited keywords and then when you save - it creates an individual entry for each keyword based on the other settings. This is pretty much what the GAS interfeace does to some degree.

[The Geek]

GAL3.0 is out.
Check the readme for details on new functionality and upgrade instructions.

[Lionel]

is the function_gal good to go now? last time you told me not to upload it