Geek AutoLinker 3.00 RC1

HowdA all.

BETA CLOSED. PACKAGE IS RELEASED HERE

I have finally gotten GAL3.0 to a stage where it can be beta tested via fresh install or upgrade from 2.6

GAL is designed to be able to auto link keywords to your own specific URLs. (Read more here).
3.0 builds on 2.6 but includes the following:
1- ability to specify ordinal
2- ability to add URL titles
3- ability to cusomize the URL replacement
4- abiilty to limit # of time a match is replaced per post
5- new installer/upgrader/uninstaller built on a prototype GISH installer. This means that all file edits are done automatically for you unless you choose otherwise.
6 - Just added a category manager to categorize your GALS, but also so you can override the global replacement text on a category level.
7- Global, categorical, or individual replacment value. You can customise the replacement code on a global level, but override it on a category level, or even override that on an individual level which gives you massive versatility.

All is pretty much self explanitory in the readme and the GAL 2.6 thread.

As this is a beta, I would encourage that it is not used on a live board and that you backup your DB and files before running.

edit:

I just updated the package to allow for "'s in the replacement.
Now you can customize the replacements with things like:

For normal:

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

or this to hide the status bar display:

<a href='$link' target='_blank' class='DEF' title='$description' onmouseover="window.status='$description'; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true">$text</a>

[edit]
I have spent all afternoon and just come up with a way to have the hovering popups!!! Consider it a beta add on for a beta. Once that is working 100% I will fold it into the main package. For now, the instructions are in the current package. It requires a file edit and a template edit.
The rest just works off replacement code that you create.
[/edit]

Like I said - the above is just pseudo code. But I am sure something like that would work (my javascript chugs).

nJoy

[zachlee]

Originally Posted by 006

Interesting... the install went well. Had to do 3 manual edits, but everything else was fine.

The links don't work though. Just plain text now.

How would I go about finding what the problem is? Thanks!

Same here geek. Removed everything from 2.6 including tables. Plus other edits. Did full new install. Seems to work, except nothing is being linked.

[007]

Ah ha! I moved the created files from the "gish" folder back into their respective locations in my real forums and that fixed it.

Works now. Try that zachlee.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by 006

Ah ha! I moved the created files from the "gish" folder back into their respective locations in my real forums and that fixed it.

Works now. Try that zachlee.

Yea - the hacked files need to be moved over manually when editing is done

Also - I just updated the package to help with empty replacement settings. If you have 2.04, just replace functions_gal.php and GAL_admin.php with the latest from 2.05

[Lizard King]

zachlee and 006 try to do the way i explained in here and put the links in dangerous mode. This way the links will work.

Geek I checked everything but if you will not do it like this then it is not linking.

[The Geek]

Mert - did you try the latest functions_gal and GAL_admin in 2.05? It looks to sort it.

[zachlee]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Yea - the hacked files need to be moved over manually when editing is done

Also - I just updated the package to help with empty replacement settings. If you have 2.04, just replace functions_gal.php and GAL_admin.php with the latest from 2.05

Correct me if I am wrong. On the installer page, it says that it was unable to do the file edits on showthread.php, functions_showthread.php & admincp/index.php

SO, I edit those three files manually. When I go into the gish/gal/3.00/ folder, those are the same three files that I manually updated.

What exactly am I to move over, if I make those edits manually, what else needs copied over. For ++++s and giggles, I backed up those 3 files, moved them from the gish folder, and still nothing.

I am not sure what I am missing, since I have removed all remnants of 2.6 (includeding db entrys)

[007]

Well I deleted 3 of the datastore rows with gal_ in front of them trying to get rid of all my links so I can start over. (Somehow after deleting them they still showed up).

Now no links work. How do I get the rows back lol!

[The Geek]

Zachlee, I am not sure what you mean.
If you manually edited the files... did you do it on the run time files or the ones moved to gish/gal/3.0?
If you edited the ones in gish, then those are the ones to move over. If you manually edited your actual files, then dont copy the gish ones over.

006 - whenever you do anything in the GAL_admin page, it rebuilds the datastore of links. It pulls the links from the geek_autolink table. Delete those and all will pretty much go bye bye

[007]

Well I totally uninstalled. I was going to reinstall, but the file edit changes show up blank?

Also, how soon after creating an autolink should it take for it to start working?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by 006

Well I totally uninstalled. I was going to reinstall, but the file edit changes show up blank?

Also, how soon after creating an autolink should it take for it to start working?

Its immediate.
THe manual uninstall file edits are essentially giving you a delete.
Replace x code with nothing.