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

[venomx]

What I like about this is I own a ppc search site too so I can take the more popular search terms at my ppc search site and link to them on my forum.

[greenhybrid]

I can't seem to get the popups working:
http://www.greenhybrid.com/discuss/post10992.html

The necessary code is in the file. Also, I don't see how the categories override or determine the replacement for their links.

[|Jordan|]

How is this hack on performance? Does it slow down page loading, server resources, etc.?

[The Geek]

it doesnt look like the change to vbulletin_menu.js was made.

if there is no individual replacement code for an item - it then uses the category replacment code. If there is no category replacement, it then uses the global.

myis jordan - its pretty hot. There are no additional runtime queries. Obviously the more replacments you have th more work has to be done to each postbit - however I havent heard of anyone mention a performance problem yet.

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by The Geek

You want the replacment to be dependant on the usergroupid? It can be done - but it isnt something that is in it now. I guess I can look at something like that for future versions.


HTH's

if this was for me no... I mean the target word kids could have a url.
or the target words kids, children could have the SAME url.
or the option to have the target word kids have multiple urls that rotate.
first instance goes to this URL
second on the page will go here.

that way if you have a page with the term kids all over it it will have differnt links.

this is a marketing dream.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by T3MEDIA

if this was for me no... I mean the target word kids could have a url.
or the target words kids, children could have the SAME url.
or the option to have the target word kids have multiple urls that rotate.
first instance goes to this URL
second on the page will go here.

that way if you have a page with the term kids all over it it will have differnt links.

this is a marketing dream.

Ahhh... I see.

To create 1 link for many keywords isnt THAT hard to do (guess I could look into it for future versions). However a keyword to many url relationship could prove difficult without moving the system to a table and building the links at runtime. It is dooable - and I doubt the overhead would be too much - however it isnt something I would do as a default (making the links at runtime) and not something I would look into right away.

Still - guess Ill keep it in the back of my head

[adamgessel]

Awesome

Thanks

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Ahhh... I see.

To create 1 link for many keywords isnt THAT hard to do (guess I could look into it for future versions). However a keyword to many url relationship could prove difficult without moving the system to a table and building the links at runtime. It is dooable - and I doubt the overhead would be too much - however it isnt something I would do as a default (making the links at runtime) and not something I would look into right away.

Still - guess Ill keep it in the back of my head

fair enough.

[KTBleeding]

I apologize for the ignorance, but I really just can't seem to get this system to work. I've read the read me and this thread several times through but still can't figure it out. I manually installed the file edits and I have triple checked that they are correct but I still can't manage to get the keywords to link to anything at all.

[OrangeFlea]

Originally Posted by TonysDesigns

I have the new one and I can tell you, the mouseovers ROCK. Look here for an example and hover your mouse over the links: http://www.makeuptalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6357 (second post down)

That's pretty neat, but I have over 900 entries. I don't have the time or the inclination to add captions to all of them. Is that the only major upgrade from 2.6? If so, I'll just stick to what I have now.