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.


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[fly]

Originally Posted by The Geek

hmmm. Maybe a problem with the cron. Are you using the DB cache?

No. Should I turn it on?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by flypaper

No. Should I turn it on?

if you are not using the DB cache, then the only time GALs can expire is when the GAL datastore gets rebuilt which can mean the expirations are not very strict.

Try turning it on and give me some feedback.

[The Geek]

Package updated.

There were 2 typos in version 4.02 that I have fixed:

1- the GALbox DIV used for the popup was missing a " that made the popup disappear if a user tried to mouse onto it. If your popup is not staying open, check the readme in the new package for the correct GALbox DIV that you put in your header template.

2- There was a typo in the cron job that was causing update problems. Its fixed now. To apply this fix, just replace your cron/GAL_cron.php file with the one found in the new package.

All other files and such are the exact same.

[fly]

that seems to have fixed my expire problem. Thanks man!

[fabrizio]

There is a problem that still is affecting me: when I click on Stats I get the following error:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /admincp/GAL_admin.php on line 2070

Any idea? Anyway the mod works great...

Thanks.

[KTBleeding]

Geek, I finally managed to get around to trying this out after installing it so long ago. I found a couple of things here..
If I update a category at all, the auto link doesn't actually change in my posts. If I have a GAL set up as a Glossary (with no title) and later assign the category to Sponsor (with title) the GAL still acts as if it's a Glossary item being that it does not update with a title.

Also, I have set up the word "KTB" to be a GAL but it doesn't work. Every instance of KTB turns bold and red and nothing else. I tried changing it to different categories but had no luck.

Sorry if all of these have been pointed out already, I searched and didn't find much information on it.

[handholder]

many thanks to geek for this update,i liiiiiiiiiiiike you!

[The Geek]

Fabrizo: Forgot to put an error check in there - it essentially means that there are no stats to display. Pretend that error says "there are no stats to show"

KT - What happens if you click Debig->Rebuild? THat should sort the problem out. As far as the KTB - you arent doing it then searching for it so the word is highlighlted right? If so then the highlight will prevent the GAL.

[Slave]

Geek .. I've just installed this on a 3.0.3 board .. and the installer seemed to miss out the edit in the global.php file .. (it didn't come up as an error when installing, although I can't remember if it mentioned it at all tbh)

Just thought I'd let you know, as I've seen others in this thread have the same problem ..

[Rukas]

It just doesnt seem to want to work.

Debug menu:

Find #(\s\b(mixtape)s?\b)#im
Replace <a href='autolink.php?id=33{TRACK_HITS}' target='_blank' class='DEF' title=''><!--GAL_REMOVAL-->$1</a>

Im pretty sure ive followed the instructions and nothing.