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 T3MEDIA

bump...
could the ccs and javascript fromt this hack affect vb intergration with photopost?

Not to my knowledge.

I couldnt for the life of me see how the two are connected. PP is a pretty seperate system. Can anyone else with PP verify?

[T3MEDIA]

Can some one do a test for me???
the linking word is dating
Title Master Dating
expires (blank)
link (what ever)
ingore threadid pick where this word will be
description:
First impressions can easily<BR>make a difference; here are a <BR>few other ideas on how to keep <BR>her wanting more.
ordinal 50
category links

now create a new link that goes to a differnt url but use the word date as the linking word.

the system goes buggie on me over that.

also I dont konw if it has been addressed but if you put a ' in the title it will ruin the pop up. like a "woman's love"
Remember we are talking about the title.

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Not to my knowledge.

I couldnt for the life of me see how the two are connected. PP is a pretty seperate system. Can anyone else with PP verify?

photopost index.php does intergrate with vbulletin's ccs and javascript.
there is a option to intergrate with it.

Resason why I ask is because there is a forum that has this linking software and photopost. photopost index.php is no longer working.

So I wanted to verify if that could be a reason.

[The Geek]

Hey t3media.

are you saying that you and another site are having problems? Or is this just a site you know of that is having problems?

I have photopost (but dont use it anymore) and I dont seem to have a problem. The CSS wouldnt make a difference - nor could I see any JS making a difference. The pnly part that could cause a possible conflict would be that global.php includes the GAL include file (but wouldnt use it unless a fuinction was called). That alone should cause a problem but I am more than happpy to look into it if I can get some details PMed to me.

Thought I had sorted the apostraphe in the title. Ill do that tonight. Have you debugged->rebuilt? Are you running in danger mode?

[CosmicBlend]

The Geek - Your mods are so freaking popular.. im pretty sure i saw AutoLinker on HowardForums.com That site is huge..

[Watson]

I am just wondering, what would be the best people to contact regarding this, cause obviously it wont work with google ads, but would you need to have a site sponsor in place to get them to have auto links? Or would you just advertise the fact that you sell links to words?

Just wondering what others have done, would like to add this hack to my site

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Watson

I am just wondering, what would be the best people to contact regarding this, cause obviously it wont work with google ads, but would you need to have a site sponsor in place to get them to have auto links? Or would you just advertise the fact that you sell links to words?

Just wondering what others have done, would like to add this hack to my site

For now, just advertise you sell keywords. In the future - you will be able to use GUSH to sell them (ha! gush).

[Lizard King]

Originally Posted by The Geek

For now, just advertise you sell keywords. In the future - you will be able to use GUSH to sell them (ha! gush).

GUSH what is it going to be

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by CosmicBlend

HowardForums.com

Wow that place does look kind of massive. 3,669 currently active users? Sheesh. Howies a busy guy.

[The Geek]

Geek Ultimate Sponsor Hack

I wont start a hack until I come up with a lame acronym. I am decoupling GAB from the front end I was making as GUSH will optionally tie the two togehter. Allow users to purcahse GAL's and GAB's :P