Geek Auto-Linker 4.5 LITE

From the makers of O and yea comes the eagerly awaited LITE version of Geek Auto-Linker.

GAL is a revolution in dynamic schwizzelsisting for vBulletin 3.5x and dramatically improved from earlier versions to be faster and more efficient.

Package updated 05/12/05

• Fixes ordinal (order) of replacements

What does it do?

GAL scans posts at run time and automatically hyperlinks pre defined key words of your own creation! Thats right... every time someone types in toe jam, GAL can automatically link it to any URL you can dream of.
In fact, GAL will link several variations on toe jam (or whatever keywords you happen to use).

GAL 4.5 has improved its matchmaking abilities and now matches words returned from searches (though only single key words with no spaces due to vB limitations) and formatted words too! (which it never could before).

There are no file changes, no template changes and currently 1 query (as there is no freaking way to cache the datastore yet). Anyhooo - thar she blows.

For those wanting to have the news module in their vbaCMPS module auto-link... here is a teeny tutorial on it

Click install if you indeed install or you may be mocked publicly for it.

Please note that this is a free LITE version of the PRO version. Therefore there is no hovering popups, stats, impression tracking, BBcode in descriptions, etc...

nJoy

[The Geek]

JumpD - at run time. If it did it at post time, then if you changed an option or added something new, you would have to rescrub the system

However - doing it at post time would have certainly been easier

[Code Monkey]

Originally Posted by The Geek

JumpD - at run time. If it did it at post time, then if you changed an option or added something new, you would have to rescrub the system

However - doing it at post time would have certainly been easier

Or you could create a vb_code function to take care of it. Then just wrap the words in the vb_code and then any updates to the vb_code would take care of business. Then you would be using the existing vbulletin processes and not adding new ones.

[The Geek]

what do you mean by vb_code? I dont follow.

[Code Monkey]

Originally Posted by The Geek

what do you mean by vb_code? I dont follow.

vb_code

[The Geek]

o, BBcode. Thats what I thought you meant. However to do it with BBcode require the poster to put the word in around bbcode (i.e. [autolink]). That defeats the objective as they could just as easily put the URL in themselves.

[Code Monkey]

You could have it put it in automatically at post time.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by JumpD

You could have it put it in automatically at post time.

But then it isn't dynamic. All links would only take place from that point forward. If you edit a link or remove it, well, all your existing ones stay with the old version and are not removed.

I'm not sure what the problem is with having it be dynamic. If anything, its one of the key points to the system. For the average user, there is minimal impact on system performance. For mega heavy traffic sites with loads of entries - yes, there are performance implications, however those are not the norm.

[fly]

Any ideas on when you'll have a fix for this?

[The Geek]

The ordinal issue is fixed.

[fly]

Originally Posted by flypaper

Why does the replacement text get replaced with the Title of the GAL? I just want the word to be the same, but underlined...

This is still broken. Test it by leaving the title of the GAL capitalized...