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 blueuniverse

Is the usergroup feature going to be implemented in v4 (it looks like it from that screenshot) but just to check.

yupp

[KTBleeding]

NICE! That looks like it has covered everything I could want out of a hack like this. Geek, keep it up, you're awesome.

[libertate]

Originally Posted by The Geek

liberate - check the readme for a good explination of the categories.

Thank you, I get the concept now.

Unfortunatelly, I still do not having working. Not just that, I cannot see the links on your example page either (MMA thing)! I tried both Firefox, and IE still nothing.

Any more suggestions?

The global setting is the default link

<a href='$link' target='_blank' class='DEF' onmouseover="GAL_popup(this,$description);" onmouseout="GAL_hidepopup();">$text</a>

[ChurchMedia]

I didn't see this problem mentioned, but when I edit a link it changes ALL my links to the same information. Then when I delete one it deletes all of them. What do you think is causing that?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by libertate

Thank you, I get the concept now.

Unfortunatelly, I still do not having working. Not just that, I cannot see the links on your example page either (MMA thing)! I tried both Firefox, and IE still nothing.

Any more suggestions?

The global setting is the default link

<a href='$link' target='_blank' class='DEF' onmouseover="GAL_popup(this,$description);" onmouseout="GAL_hidepopup();">$text</a>

liberate - my demos down as I am in the final stages of implimenting 4.0
hmmm. your settings look right. Try changing the limit value to 0 to see if that helps. If not - double check your functions_showthread.php edit.

Church - er. Got me. SOunds like a bug however I would have thought that would have come up by now!

----------------------------
progress

Right. I have finially finished coding an RC for 4.0 (I have literally spent about 10 hours on it today). I am just going to iron out a couple of minor issues and work on the extensability (so you can run ANY text through it i.e. PM's, portal text, etc...) Then I will write an installer and most likely release tomorrow.

nJoy

[ChurchMedia]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Church - er. Got me. SOunds like a bug however I would have thought that would have come up by now!

I deleted the tables and re-ran the installer. It seems to be fine now. Just a weird thang...

Thanks for the cool hack!

[libertate]

I did the same and seems to work, except for the javascript piece. I get the following link. The description seems correct, except for the GAL_REMOVAL stuff, and that it does not show... Any thoughts?

<a href='http://www.working.com' target='_blank' class='DEF' onmouseover="GAL_popup(this,'Dr. Test\' New test <!--GAL_REMOVAL-->alpha <!--GAL_REMOVAL-->beta <!--GAL_REMOVAL-->gamma <!--GAL_REMOVAL-->delta, <!--GAL_REMOVAL-->Dr. <!--GAL_REMOVAL-->epsilon\' <!--GAL_REMOVAL-->New <!--GAL_REMOVAL-->test <!--GAL_REMOVAL-->package.');" onmouseout="GAL_hidepopup();">replaceme</a>

An other minor "bug" I found. If the message contains html anchor for a link, then the text within the anchor open and close still gets processed.

i.e.

Text to replace : TEST
with : <a href="http://www.otherexample.com">test</a>

Original text:

<a hre="http://www.example.com">this is a test big one!</a>

Resulting text after GAL

<a hre="http://www.example.com">this is a <a href="http://www.otherexample.com">test</a> big one!</a>

This is also the case when regular BBCode URL is used.

As for the ordinals - Great! It works perfectly. When there is a "collission" the ordinals take care of it. i.e. when I have "Bob" and "Bob Smith" whichever has the lower ordinal will be the one executed. Not just that, if the first ordinal is exhausted through the "Limit replacement" order, the next occurence is used... Awesome!

This is like an Amazon money machine!

[The Geek]

re: the js code - are you sure the change to vbulletin_menu.js has been made and that you have stuck the popup html in one of your templates (i.e. header)?
The gal removal is to prevent your description getting autolinked (which could screw it up big time).

There is no way to (sanely) discover if the text is already in a link. I minimise it as much as possible with safemode.

[The Geek]

note:

GAL 4.0RC1 is in the beat section here-> https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=80929

[memobug]

This site has some really sophisticated rollovers. I haven't played with the JS here with GAL, but can it do something like this? See the green links when you hover.

http://psp.ign.com/articles/599/599236p1.html


Regards,

Matt