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

[Shackbase]

ok - so I did not undertand (yes I DID read it) the manual - you need to copy the files that the script creates in the /gish/ directory.. sorry - that wasn't clear to me.

Wolfyman.. did you get that? it's a real neat way of doing things actually - kudos to The Geek...

Thanks,

--Tone

[Shackbase]

I do have one question though... in your thread... http://www.thenailgeek.com/showthread.php?t=11011

doing a mouse over - there's a 2nd link in there.. how can I do that? let's say I want to add a <more> link instead or with the normal text link (in other words, add a more info link inside of the description like you have it); how would I do that?

--Tone

[wolfyman]

I end up with these files - /forum/gish/gal/3.00/.. I need to copy those into the main directory........ ooooooooooh

[wolfyman]

Geek, I just joined the masses. Thanks buddy

[j_86]

When clicking "save ordinal" on "display" in the adminco when there are no links/ordinals entered, you get this error;

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /admincp/GAL_admin.php on line 425

[The Geek]

Ill look into it today (along with the danger and limit bug) most likely later tonight. I just got my own server back up and running.

Shackbase: use the $url variable in your description to get a link to appear. You can also put HTML in the description when using popups - however DO NOT put any text in that could break a line (ie. <br /> or <p> tags). You can do physical line breaks - but all spaces are changed to &nbsp; otherwise your javascript will error.

[fly]

Originally Posted by The Geek

ill look into the limit bug when I can get my server back up and running (its currently down due to DNS woes).

You must be on Comcast. Change your DNS server to 4.2.2.2 and your problems will disappear.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by flypaper

You must be on Comcast. Change your DNS server to 4.2.2.2 and your problems will disappear.

the problem was that the namespace server purged my records so everyone trying to resolve my domain name came up with nothing. Now its just a matter of waiting for all TTL's to expire

[wolfyman]

can someone explain what the ordinal is and what else I can do with the bottom field in GAL?
(Replacement code
$link = url
$description = link title
$text is the text replacement.)

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by wolfyman

can someone explain what the ordinal is and what else I can do with the bottom field in GAL?
(Replacement code
$link = url
$description = link title
$text is the text replacement.)

ordinal is the order for replacment.

the lower the number, the more precedence it has.

So if you have 'my name is bob' and also 'bob' as replacments, you want the first to have a lower ordinal so it gets replaced first. Otherwise only the second will get matched.

$link=url
$description=description
$text=replacement text
$url=a rolled up version of $link and $text. Essentially, $url produces the following html:
<a href='$link' target='_BLANK'>$text</a>

So when using a popup, you can stick $url in the description and it will give you a link (this was mentioned a few posts back). You can also use html - but I would caution not to use anything that would give you a line break as it can break the variable sent to the popup javascript.

Technically, you could also use some posbit variables too.

Hope this isnt to confusing