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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

Visions · #**382** 04-24-2005, 02:07 AM

Any Progress on the CMPS integration?

Tom1234 · #**383** 04-24-2005, 06:30 AM

Geek,

Has GISH been released as it's own hack to help other hackers automate the file edits of their hacks?

The Geek · #**384** 04-24-2005, 07:30 AM

lionel - my guess would be a styles issue? Is the DEF class in all styles?

Visons1- To be honest - I havent looked into it. I would suspect it would be trivial and if you bug me in a couple days ill look into it for you.

Tom - I was working on it however vb3.1 will do most hack management/installations so there really isnt much reason to spend much more time on it.
Saying that - Im not too bothered if anyone uses it. Maybe ill stick it up for release for anyone that wants to use it in the iterim.

memobug · #**385** 04-24-2005, 09:20 AM

Hi TNG, I am having an odd problem.

The links themselves seem to work but the title is messed up because it is encased in two sets of single ' 'like this' ' not one set of double quotes "like this"

Please note that these are different.

My output code looks like this:

Please note that is two single quotes ' ' Onsite_Link ' ' not one set of doubles "Onsite_Link" or one set of singles 'Onsite_Link'

Regards,

Matt

<a href='http://(omitted)' target='_SELF' class='DEF' title=''Onsite_Link''> memory stick</a>

The Geek · #**386** 04-24-2005, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by memobug

Hi TNG, I am having an odd problem.

The links themselves seem to work but the title is messed up because it is encased in two sets of single ''like this'' not one set of double parens "like this"

Please note that these are different.

My output code looks like this:

Please note that is two single quotes ' ' Onsite Link ' ' not one set of doubles "Onsite_Link"

Regards,

Matt

<a href='http://www.pspfreaks.com/reviews/showproduct.php/product/21' target='_SELF' class='DEF' title=''Onsite_Link''> memory stick</a>

try escaping them \"like this \" and tell me if that works.

Thanks

memobug · #**387** 04-24-2005, 09:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Geek

try escaping them \"like this \" and tell me if that works.

Thanks

There's nothing to escape. My description has no escapables in it. Just one word.

HELP

and it comes out like this

''HELP''

like this ' 'HELP' '
but with no space between them

target='_SELF' class='DEF' title=''HELP''

Anyway I put in \"TEST\" as you suggest, although I hope you understand I don't want any quotes, but anyway I got this:

<a href='http://...' target='_blank' class='DEF' title=''\\"TEST\\"''>psp</a> playing nes games.

that is

<a href='http://...' target='_blank' class='DEF' title=''\\"TEST\\"''>psp</a> playing nes games.

Regards,

Matt

memobug · #**388** 04-24-2005, 10:04 AM

It also looks like the readme is out of date on the last section for individual link items.

The readme document has Replace Text, Link, Ignore threadid, Alt and Ordinal

The ones in the release are Replacement Text, Link, Ignore threadid, Description, Ordinal, Category Name, Replacement code.

The Geek · #**389** 04-24-2005, 10:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by memobug

It also looks like the readme is out of date on the last section for individual link items.

The readme document has Replace Text, Link, Ignore threadid, Alt and Ordinal

The ones in the release are Replacement Text, Link, Ignore threadid, Description, Ordinal, Category Name, Replacement code.

thanks memo. Ill update soon (am working on next release to support GAB).

Back to your problem. Im not sure what you are trying to do. Are you saying that you do not want the title parameter to have any quotes around it at all?

memobug · #**390** 04-24-2005, 11:17 AM

Hi TNG,

I am not trying to do anything special at all other than get the titles to work right. I am not being clear, but I am trying to say that the TITLE description is not working at all. It is broken.

All I can tell you is this:

I put TEST in the description box.

In the alt text GALsurrounds that word text with two single quotes on each side. Not a pair of double quotes "TEST", not a pair of single quotes 'TEST' (either of those would work.) But what I get is TWO PAIR OF SINGLE QUOTES two on each side

Code:

 
<a href='http://...' target='_blank' class='DEF' title=''TEST''>psp</a> playing nes games.

That doesn't work. How can I explain this better?

It should just have a single set of quotes around it like this

<a href='http://...' target='_blank' class='DEF' title='TEST'>psp</a> playing nes games.

with four quote marks, if you have two words in the title, it really messes up the tag. I am trying to explain to you that it's broken but I don't know how to.

You have an extra quote in there.

Regards,

Matt

You asked me to escape it, there is nothing to escape, but I escaped it anyway and I posted the results above.

The Geek · #**391** 04-24-2005, 11:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by memobug

Hi TNG,

I am not trying to do anything special at all other than get the titles to work right. I am not being clear, but I am trying to say that the TITLE description is not working at all. It is broken.

All I can tell you is this:

I put TEST in the description box.

In the alt text GALsurrounds that word text with two single quotes on each side. Not a pair of double quotes "TEST", not a pair of single quotes 'TEST' (either of those would work.) But what I get is TWO PAIR OF SINGLE QUOTES two on each side

Code:

 
<a href='http://...' target='_blank' class='DEF' title=''TEST''>psp</a> playing nes games.

That doesn't work. How can I explain this better?

It should just have a single set of quotes around it like this

<a href='http://...' target='_blank' class='DEF' title='TEST'>psp</a> playing nes games.

with four quote marks, if you have two words in the title, it really messes up the tag. I am trying to explain to you that it's broken but I don't know how to.

You have an extra quote in there.

Regards,

Matt

You asked me to escape it, there is nothing to escape, but I escaped it anyway and I posted the results above.

do you have anything in the replacement code

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