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

[Jagged Tooth]

Cool hack, I just noticed that in the unistaller the you spelt "uninstall" as "uinstall" by accident I pressume. Anyway

/me Clicks Install

--Jagged Tooth--

[fabrizio]

Excuse me guys,
I have just installed it and everything worked great, but now? How can I use it? How can I configure it? I cannot find any instructions or manual about it and I cannot find any link in my admin CP to Geek Autolinker... any suggestion?

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Fabrizio

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by fabrizio

Excuse me guys,
I have just installed it and everything worked great, but now? How can I use it? How can I configure it? I cannot find any instructions or manual about it and I cannot find any link in my admin CP to Geek Autolinker... any suggestion?

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Fabrizio

check your gish folder for the changed files as per the readme. Doesnt sound like you copied them over.

[fabrizio]

Thank you for your reply.

Actually I had to reinstall it because it was not able to update the index.php file in the admincp directory, so I had to do it myself.

I have only a problem: when I click on the "Edit" link on a record of my replacements in the Display list of Geek AutoLink Manager, the form is empty, no information is displayed about the listing... any idea?

Also the description is not displayed int he browser because the code is written in this way:

<A href='http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/Downloads.html' class='DEF' title=''browse our entire catalog of instantly downloadable sheet music.''>our catalog</A>

I don't know why Geek adds two '' in the title attribute by making it unusable and the link actually wrong... I solved the problem by changing the replacement code as following (by removing the two ' in the title attribute):

<a href='$link' class='DEF' title=$description>$text</a>

Thank you again.

All the best,
Fabrizio.

[MichaelJM13k]

Where do i go in my AdminCP to define a keyword and edit settings?

[fabrizio]

Under "Geek AutoLink Manager" click "Add new"

[MichaelJM13k]

Yeah, it wasn't showing up but i fixed it.

[Jagged Tooth]

I have just recently noticed that when you have formating such as bold, colour changes, etc. It will get rid of it a turn it in to just plain text (hyperlinked of course) Here is an Example from my fourm you will notice that the work "Runescape" is white and the rest is bold and red. Anyway of fixing this?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Jagged Tooth

I have just recently noticed that when you have formating such as bold, colour changes, etc. It will get rid of it a turn it in to just plain text (hyperlinked of course) Here is an Example from my fourm you will notice that the work "Runescape" is white and the rest is bold and red. Anyway of fixing this?

danger mode is the only way and I wouldnt advise it. The problem is that safe mode links words with a preceeding space to prevent messing up URLs and HTML code. If there isnt a space (in the case <b>keyword is here</b>) then it wont link as there is no match.
4.0 is better at matching - but only marginal. It still wouldnt match the above example.
You could alter the regexp to make exceptions for certain preceeding markup - but only for a few and I dont think its worth it in the end (performance wise). To come up with a regex that would safely determine if the word was not in a URL, would be a freaking amazing task that would most likely slow your server to a crawl.

[fabrizio]

Anyone know why when I click on the "Edit" link on a record of my replacements in the Display list of Geek AutoLink Manager, the form is empty, no information is displayed about the listing... any idea?