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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

T3MEDIA · #**532** 05-12-2005, 05:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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?

Photopost header-inc.php calls
require_once('./includes/functions_newpost.php');
require_once('./includes/functions_showthread.php');

and a few others.

fly · #**533** 05-12-2005, 05:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lizard King

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...wpost&t=138544

check this announcement

Whoa.

greenhybrid · #**534** 05-12-2005, 06:14 PM

The script is chopping off my replacement text after 25 characters. Why??

The Geek · #**535** 05-12-2005, 07:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by greenhybrid

The script is chopping off my replacement text after 25 characters. Why??

green - can you give me a url?

vb3.5 looks freaking great. I doubt GAL and GAB will need much reworking but I have a feeling that gas is going to be a right butt pain to update.

greenhybrid · #**536** 05-12-2005, 07:30 PM

Not really. I just added a replacement with more than 25 characters and when I went back to the display, it chopped it off.

fly · #**537** 05-12-2005, 07:30 PM

I say you develop GUY next. Then merge GUY and GAL. Can I watch?

Lizard King · #**538** 05-12-2005, 07:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Geek

green - can you give me a url?

vb3.5 looks freaking great. I doubt GAL and GAB will need much reworking but I have a feeling that gas is going to be a right butt pain to update.

I agree with you but i believe GAS is one of the best mod i have ever installed in my board

The Geek · #**539** 05-12-2005, 08:02 PM

green - which field and which page? It looks OK and then you save, go back and its chopped?

If I make GUY and put it together with GAL - we will end up with GITs

Lizard - thats the nicest compliment Ive had

thanks!

Right - have been working on a couple issues and I seem to have resolved them. I am just starting to put together an update (its pretty minor). But it addresses:
Apostraphes in title breaking popups
Keywords in titles messing up matches (if you have another keyword in a title, it will break it... think Lionel or someone brought this up this morning).
Sorting out GAS interop. This will require a new release of GAS though it will really only be a file change. I am planning that the synopsis will be the description.
There is still a bug with the offset feature where no matter what its set to, the value is always 1.

I was hoping to repackage tonight but Im a bit knacked so Im going to skip until tomorrow as I dont want to miss anything.

venomx · #**540** 05-12-2005, 09:12 PM

Geek any idea on my cron problem???

T3MEDIA · #**541** 05-12-2005, 09:53 PM

I guess no one knows about photopost then.
Geek can you make this with a off button or something in the admincp?

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