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

[Kihon Kata]

Originally Posted by The Geek

SHouldnt be an issue at all matt - I think there was an issue with the global.php edit so you may have to do that manually - however its no real sweat as they are very basic file edits.

Man, I love this HACK. It's one of the best ones around....INSTALLS

[pguy]

Having some problem with the ordering here .. Installation was a breeze and the functionality is awesome!!

Even though all the categories are the same for ALL the replacement terms and the ones with the two words as a replacement are set with a lower ordinal, they just refuse to follow the order and a higher ordinalled term is replaced ..

Using the latest version downloaded just today

[Kihon Kata]

Originally Posted by pguy

Having some problem with the ordering here .. Installation was a breeze and the functionality is awesome!!

Even though all the categories are the same for ALL the replacement terms and the ones with the two words as a replacement are set with a lower ordinal, they just refuse to follow the order and a higher ordinalled term is replaced ..

Using the latest version downloaded just today

Anyone have any cool GAL 4.0 popup box styles they wanna share?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by pguy

Having some problem with the ordering here .. Installation was a breeze and the functionality is awesome!!

Even though all the categories are the same for ALL the replacement terms and the ones with the two words as a replacement are set with a lower ordinal, they just refuse to follow the order and a higher ordinalled term is replaced ..

Using the latest version downloaded just today

Hey pguy - I suspect that this is a php problem as it seems to work on some versions and not on others.
The preg_replace gets an array passed to it in the order of replacement - even though it is supposed to replace in the array order - sometimes this doesnt happen. Sorry

[pguy]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Hey pguy - I suspect that this is a php problem as it seems to work on some versions and not on others.
The preg_replace gets an array passed to it in the order of replacement - even though it is supposed to replace in the array order - sometimes this doesnt happen. Sorry

Ouch! As long as its a documented issue , I guess there is nothing much I can do except reporting it. Thanks for the response! Surely is an awesome piece of work and I really intend to use it to dish out advertisements in the long run once this issue is sorted out

[The Geek]

just out of curiosity - what version of php are u running?

[tylercruz]

Hey all, I installed this hack yesterday and read through the first 13 pages or so, but haven't read through all 42 pages yet

Anyhow, I have a problem. I'm replacing the text 'bob.com' but when there is an existing URL on a post like:

http://www.bob.com/blah/blah/

Then the replacement messes this up in that the 'http://www." is linkable separately from bob.com, and of course goes to a messed up new URL. Is this fixable, or am I doing anything wrong?

Also, as far as backing up, I assume I can still just do a normal MySQL backup via the commandline and it will copy all the necessary mysql tables for this hack, and when/if I upgrade vBulletin or what not, I can just reinstall the hack?

Thanks for your help.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by tylercruz

Hey all, I installed this hack yesterday and read through the first 13 pages or so, but haven't read through all 42 pages yet

Anyhow, I have a problem. I'm replacing the text 'bob.com' but when there is an existing URL on a post like:

http://www.bob.com/blah/blah/

Then the replacement messes this up in that the 'http://www." is linkable separately from bob.com, and of course goes to a messed up new URL. Is this fixable, or am I doing anything wrong?

Also, as far as backing up, I assume I can still just do a normal MySQL backup via the commandline and it will copy all the necessary mysql tables for this hack, and when/if I upgrade vBulletin or what not, I can just reinstall the hack?

Thanks for your help.

Run it in safe mode. Danger mode will potentially mess up existing URLs - Safe Mode wont.

HTH's

[tylercruz]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Run it in safe mode. Danger mode will potentially mess up existing URLs - Safe Mode wont.

HTH's

Hi Geek,

I'm actually running it in safe mode, but it is still doing it:

http://www.pokerforums.org/showpost....98&postcount=6

[The Geek]

where? All i see is one valid url?