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]

Im not sure what you mean by 'invisible' nor what you mean about putting the css in the header template.

You should put the GALbox <div> tag in the header template and add optionally add the css to your additional css definitions box in your admincp.

No stats will display if there are no records to show. If you have links that are being tracked for stats but they are not showing - than most likely your throttle is set pretty low and the cron job is taking care of the stats.

Both of these are discussed in more detail in the readme. If you can - post a link as it is easier to see the problem you are having.

hths

[jons5150]

Hi Geek...

Somehow I have ended up with two, (count 'em), two GeekLink CPs in my one Admin CP. What the heck did I do and how can I fix it?

BTW, in a one week test I had 6 (count 'em) 6 clients ask to "buy" words...the implications have my head spinning-but I don't mind a bit. Thanks for a great, great hack...

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by jons5150

Hi Geek...

Somehow I have ended up with two, (count 'em), two GeekLink CPs in my one Admin CP. What the heck did I do and how can I fix it?

BTW, in a one week test I had 6 (count 'em) 6 clients ask to "buy" words...the implications have my head spinning-but I don't mind a bit. Thanks for a great, great hack...

It most likely occured because you had 2 instances of the key that the GISH installer was searching for (almost always a result of previously modifying the file). However its no big deal. Heck - its will be twice as easy to find you GAL settings now

Really - all you have to do is edit your admincp/index.php file... search for GAL and remove one of the blocks.

Superb news on the sponsors beating down your door. In many peoples opinions, this system is significantly better for sponsors than a banner system as it is better targeted and a bit subversive. Me? I think it kicks ass.

Roll on the GUSH system that will allow you to set up an automatic shop to sell keywords and/or GAB banners

[wirewolf]

Have vb3.0.7 and just upgraded to autolink v4.02. Upgrade went fine but had a few "Fatal error: Call to undefined function: process_gal_text() in blah/blah/includes/functions_showthread.php on line 651 and Fatal error: Call to undefined function: persist_gal_impressions() in blah/blah/showthread.php on line 1939" after creating the categories, styles, test autolink, etc and saving the settings.
After reading some previous post I assume it has something to do with global.php. The installer did not upgrade global.php nor did it list it as a manual edit. It's not in the gish folders at all. Do you have the code needed for the function definitions in global.php
John

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by wirewolf

Have vb3.0.7 and just upgraded to autolink v4.02. Upgrade went fine but had a few "Fatal error: Call to undefined function: process_gal_text() in blah/blah/includes/functions_showthread.php on line 651 and Fatal error: Call to undefined function: persist_gal_impressions() in blah/blah/showthread.php on line 1939" after creating the categories, styles, test autolink, etc and saving the settings.
After reading some previous post I assume it has something to do with global.php. The installer did not upgrade global.php nor did it list it as a manual edit. It's not in the gish folders at all. Do you have the code needed for the function definitions in global.php
John

Browse to the install page, click the install path, then scroll to the bottom of the page and you will see a link for manul install instructions.

There ye shall find what ye need.

[Tradjick]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Im not sure what you mean by 'invisible' nor what you mean about putting the css in the header template.

You should put the GALbox <div> tag in the header template and add optionally add the css to your additional css definitions box in your admincp.

No stats will display if there are no records to show. If you have links that are being tracked for stats but they are not showing - than most likely your throttle is set pretty low and the cron job is taking care of the stats.

Both of these are discussed in more detail in the readme. If you can - post a link as it is easier to see the problem you are having.

hths

The links are invisible because they have the same color as the background. But i gave every possible color tag on Yellow.

I placed the DIV code into the header and the CSS into the "additional css defininitions.

Those 3 geeky styles i added show up correctly in the ACP but i can?t see any geek style definitions in the source code, except the ones i added manually.

[wirewolf]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Browse to the install page, click the install path, then scroll to the bottom of the page and you will see a link for manul install instructions.
There ye shall find what ye need.

Didn't help! I Did an uninstall, flushed out the database, reverted back to the original php files ect. Then did a fresh install from the ground up and Everything working fine now!!

Did find one little mis-code in the GAL_admin.php, in the 'stats' section:

PHP Code:

error GAL_admin.php line around 2104 (note the "&" before the forumkey variable)
is:
print_gal_stat_row(5,$forumvalue['title'],"../forumdisplay.php?f=&$forumkey",1,$forumvalue['views'],$forumvalue['hits']);
should be:
print_gal_stat_row(5,$forumvalue['title'],"../forumdisplay.php?f=$forumkey",1,$forumvalue['views'],$forumvalue['hits']); 


Also in 'stats' view, are there missing column titles?. Check out screenshots.

[The Geek]

funnily enough wirewolf - I stumbled across these yesterday working on the stats system for GAB. I was quite shocked to see no one had flagged them before. I also noticed a couple other minor issues sith it as well which I will most likely put off until either GUSH is released or I port this to vb3.5.

Tradjick - the problem isnt with the popup styles, its with the link style. I assume you are using the DEFS CSS I provided as an example in the readme. This is what you would have placed in your additional CSS section. In there is the colour that is defining your links as the same colour as the background.

HTH's

[Tradjick]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Tradjick - the problem isnt with the popup styles, its with the link style. I assume you are using the DEFS CSS I provided as an example in the readme. This is what you would have placed in your additional CSS section. In there is the colour that is defining your links as the same colour as the background.

HTH's

Thank you, Sir. I got it working now. I somehow got lost with the styles and its CSS section. That?s been a bad coincidence that you have your links in the same color as my background color! Hehe.

[gembels]

duh.. still confused.. where or what wrong..
http://www.gembels.com/portal/forums...?p=513#post513

pls check it 4 me.. nothing show after install and readme.html