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Geek AutoLinker 4.02 · **Released**: 02-09-2005

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

venomx · #**282** 04-12-2005, 10:19 PM

I am scared to upgrade.. I tried to upgrade the articles hack and it didnt work right.

Lionel · #**283** 04-12-2005, 11:12 PM

there is a tiny bug.

Quote:

should be

Quote:

description without the quote.

because it looks like you had them defined somewhere else also, causing the link to show the title with double single quotes ''....'' instead of '....' like the other tags and therefore not displaying the title. Once I removed it in description, then it displayed the tag '....'

bad example:

<a href='http://www.ap.org/' target='_blank' class='DEF' title=''International News Agency''>Associated Press</a>

TTG · #**284** 04-13-2005, 04:45 AM

Using the code you provided for the popup ability :-

Code:

<div id="GALBox"
	style="position: absolute; width: 200px; z-index: 100;
    border: 1pt black solid; background: #FFFFCC;
    visibility: hidden; padding: 10px;"
    onmouseover="this.style.visibility='visible';"
    onmouseout="this.style.visibility='hidden';">
</div>

how can I move the pop up to be a few pixels down from the link .. it covers the link at the moment.

The Geek · #**285** 04-13-2005, 07:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TTG

Using the code you provided for the popup ability :-

Code:

<div id="GALBox"
	style="position: absolute; width: 200px; z-index: 100;
    border: 1pt black solid; background: #FFFFCC;
    visibility: hidden; padding: 10px;"
    onmouseover="this.style.visibility='visible';"
    onmouseout="this.style.visibility='hidden';">
</div>

how can I move the pop up to be a few pixels down from the link .. it covers the link at the moment.

Lionel - thanks for the heads up with the $description. Ill change the readme and the default in the hack.

TTG - its in the javascript. Open vbulletin_menu.js and its right at the top (in one of the functions you added).
Look for toppx=toppx-(number) and change number to whatever offset you want. You can use 0 however depending on the style of your link - it could cause intermitten problems. I would use toppx=toppx-1;

nJoy

TTG · #**286** 04-13-2005, 08:23 AM

Great support .. all works well with the upgrade on 3.0.6

Thanks The Geek

T3MEDIA · #**287** 04-13-2005, 01:03 PM

ok. quick question. what version is this if I have the beta version. In other words how would I (if needed) upgrade to 3.

The Geek · #**288** 04-13-2005, 01:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by T3MEDIA

ok. quick question. what version is this if I have the beta version. In other words how would I (if needed) upgrade to 3.

File changes are the same... Depends on which package you were running. If you have categroy options in the admincp then your file changes should be updated (may want to double check the file changes to vbulletin_menu.js

Aside from that - just overwrite your GAL files with the ones in the latest package.

Hope that made sense!

fly · #**289** 04-13-2005, 01:37 PM

Sweet. Gish didn't seem to work for me, other than the js file. Anything I can give/show to you to help improve it?

And I'm anxiously awaiting link timeouts after a certain period of time. THANKS MAN!

The Geek · #**290** 04-13-2005, 01:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flypaper

Sweet. Gish didn't seem to work for me, other than the js file. Anything I can give/show to you to help improve it?

And I'm anxiously awaiting link timeouts after a certain period of time. THANKS MAN!

Upgradin is seriously difficult with GISH (or any file hacker) as it totally depends on how you put the previous code in. I got it to work in most upgrade situations - but in many it wont. This I dont see as a problem becuase 1- there are only 4 small minor file edits. 2 - Worse case scenario, you will have to manually do them yourself.

The good news is that once they have been auto-hacked... future upgrades are much easier.
Saying that - Im half tempted to do away with the auto hacking for smaller file changes as no one ever seems to read the README. For something like GAS its essential as there are many file edits. For this - its could go either way.

Enough of a rant

Just do the js fiel change manually. GISH errs on the side of caution and wont touch the file if it doesnt think its 100% safe to.

As far as timeouts - I am planning on an optional integration between GAB and GAL so that people can place adverts AND key words however this may be a few weeks away.

fly · #**291** 04-13-2005, 01:51 PM

Your coding skills are only matched by your bostaff skills and nunchuck skills.

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