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

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Ghostsuit

Really nice hack. I notice you say it add's one queries is that no matter how many links are checked?

Yeas ghostsuit. It pulls all of the replacements in one go and then does one replacementcall using an array of the data from the one pull

Thanks

[OrangeFlea]

About using the amazon.com referall program in association with this hack...

I have an amazon.com search thing on my forum, and when members use it to look for a book or a product, naturally I get the credit for it. However, I've also noticed -- and I don't know if this is FACT -- that when members browse amazon.com after making the initial search, they're still browsing under the referral system, as long as they don't reload Amazon.com or close their browser. Based on this theory, wouldn't it make sense, when using your hack, to hyperlink words with the URLs that have your referall id in them?

Am I making any sense?

[ericgtr]

This works great! I like how you've avoided anything to do with functions_bbcodeparse Installed!

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by OrangeFlea

About using the amazon.com referall program in association with this hack...

I have an amazon.com search thing on my forum, and when members use it to look for a book or a product, naturally I get the credit for it. However, I've also noticed -- and I don't know if this is FACT -- that when members browse amazon.com after making the initial search, they're still browsing under the referral system, as long as they don't reload Amazon.com or close their browser. Based on this theory, wouldn't it make sense, when using your hack, to hyperlink words with the URLs that have your referall id in them?

Am I making any sense?

Yup. Thats what I mean about a master listing. If there was a master listing of say Amazon book names with matching URL's (including a referal ID) then you would still have to edit them to put in YOUR referal ID.

In a nutshell, this hack will do exactly what you are trying to do. Everytime someone types in the joy of sex it will hyperlink it to the joy of sex at amazon.com with your referal id.

Hope that makse sense!

erictr-> Thanks man

[OrangeFlea]

Forgive me, my man. I forgot to congratulate you on this remarkable hack. It's a wonderful and helpful tool you've made and provided for us, Sir Geek. I'll be looking forward to seeing your future releases!

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by OrangeFlea

congratulate you on this remarkable hack. It's a wonderful and helpful tool you've made and provided for us,

Anytime Sir Flea

Just do me a favour and toggle the ol install switch if you use it
(I may have something cool on the way)

[Ghostsuit]

Installed. I have to say I'm finding far to many of your hacks jsut exactly what I need

[trainer]

will this hurt a larger site? slow it down?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by trainer

will this hurt a larger site? slow it down?

not really. I would say that it more depends on the #of replacements you had.
Obviously replacing 5 keywords is a lot faster than replacing 1000 keywords.

[The Geek]

I know everyones going to kill me... but I am just putting the finishing touches on an upgraded version that is substantially faster (not that this is slow by any means) and eliminates the query, include file,the array walks, and the inline replacments. I have re-coded it to build these up in the admincp when ammendments are made. It then stores it in the datastore.

I am also putting in the option to add an additional leading space to eliminate breaking existing URLs. The flip side to this is that the key word must have a space infront of it to be a match.

Ill post more when I have the update.

Give me an hour (PS- the upgrading process should be a snap so dont anyone get fidgety with me )