Major Additions - AutoLinker Lite, keyword linker for vBulletin 3.7 and 4.x, and vbcms

AutoLinker Lite is a keyword linker for vBulletin 3.7 upwards, 4.x, and vBulletin CMS. It allows the webmaster to configure particular words or phrases as keywords, which will then be automatically linked when they appear in user posts. As well as being hyperlinked, keywords can have pop-over info boxes, as in the image below:



These info boxes are highly configurable (colours, borders, fade in/fade out effect etc), and can contain html - meaning you can embed images, videos etc. Balloon-style boxes are also supported.

AutoLinker Lite has a flexible permissions system, allowing you to control which forums a given link appears in, and which usergroups it is visible too.

This is a free version of a commercial product, and contains a limit on the number of AutoLinks that you may create. Other than that, it is fully functional.

Please note that AutoLinks in the CMS do not work in vBulletin 4.0.0 and 4.0.1. 4.0.2 and upwards are fine.

A couple more images to hopefully whet your appetite:

Some of the things you can do with HTML:



Admin control panel:

[mandingo]

Originally Posted by kermit2

mandingo: the good news is that it's just a warning, although you shouldn't be seeing it in the first place, as that file has error warning suppressed.

It looks as if either you hadn't assigned a template to your link, or the link had no keywords.

Anyway, I've added some error checking to that file, which will stop that warning from happening. So the latest version (1.0.3 - link in the first post) will address this. You'd just need to upload the revised autolinker.php

Thanks. I'll grab that now and check that other stuff.

[SteveV]

Just installed it but when i go to settings it says:

You are running AutoLinker Lite v1.0.2
The zip i downloaded said AutoLinker_Lite-1.0.3.zip ?

Anything i did wrong ?

[kermit2]

Sorry, SteveV - I'd forgotten to increment the version number in one of the files. It's nothing to worry about, but I've corrected it now

[RoughOcean]

I installed according to the instructions, but do not see an AutoLinker menu in the AdminCP.

I have renamed my /admincp/ directory. Could that be causing a problem?

I did upload autolinker_admin.php to my renamed /admincip/ directory.

[kermit2]

Uploading autolinker_admin.php to the wrong location wouldn't stop AutoLinker from show in the ACP menu (although it would stop those links from working).

The menu is actually controlled by includes/xml/cpnav_autolinker.xml , so you might want to double-check that this file has been uploaded. Maybe do a refresh of the ACP menu frame too (or just log out and then back in)

[RoughOcean]

I'm stumped.
includes/xml/cpnav_autolinker.xml is where is should be, I see autolinker tables in the db, and there is AUTOLINKER_CP in the phrases.

I have uninstalled, deleted the files and re-installed a few times.

There just is no Autolinker menu in the AdminCP.

Is there anything else I can check?

[kermit2]

Yep, I'm stumped by this too. I've not see anyone else with this problem, and everything looks fine :/

[TimberFloorAu]

Lets say we opted for the free/paid version.

Can the content of the popup be external html ?

Reason I ask.

We have profile fields filled out by members. I would like the autolinker on hover over the keywrd ( which is for example fieldx ) to reflect dynamic content from external page, based on the word field x represents.

So if field x is lets say RABBIT
then on hover over the word rabbit ( produced in postbit by displaying FIELD x ) then the content within the autolinker could reflect a variable within a url.. such as:

www.anywebpage.com/keywords/rabbit.html

Is this dooable ? If so show me the license !

[kermit2]

That's not available as such at the moment (although certainly something we'll be thinking about for the next version), but with a little bit of fiddling I think we could figure something out - I'll PM you

[Extra PC]

How to make this MOD work ? i try word like winrar and add link for this but in the post nothing happened