Miscellaneous Hacks - Word Links FREE (Turn words into links) by BOP5

Brought to you by BirdOPrey5 / Qapla.com

Thank You for voting this June 2011 Mod of the Month!!!

The purpose of this mod is to automatically turn keywords or phrases you specify into links. You set a list of keywords and a list of URLs to link them to and let the mod do the rest.

This is the FREE Version. It allows you to auto-link words in:

• Posts/Threads
• Private Messages
• Visitor Messages
• Social Groups

The GOLD Version is available at Qapla.com It allows auto-linking words in:

• Posts/Threads
• Private Messages
• Visitor Messages
• Social Groups
• Picture Comments
• Blog Entries
• Blog Comments
• CMS Articles
• CMS Comments

Live Demo at Qapla.com.

There are many options as you can see in the screenshot. You can choose to include the "nofollow" attribute, choose to open links in a new tab, choose to match whole words only or not, specify specific forums, enable in social groups and visitor messages, and disable completely for selected usergroups or styles.

Version: 2.0

• New in 0.91: Limit the number of links created per keyword per post.
• New in 0.92: Use CSS to customize the look of links created by this mod.
• New in 0.93: Linked words now retain the same case as they were originally typed. Also a new option to specify whether linked words are case sensitive or not.
• New in 0.935: Fixed conflict with VBSEO and possibly other mods. Upgrade if you are having problems.
• New in 0.94: Made the "Custom CSS" an option to prevent unnecessary HTML if not needed.
• New in 0.95: Enable or disable in PMs.
• New in 0.96: Should fix conflicts with AME3 mod, restores same case change in 0.93.
• New in 1.0: Additional code to prevent unintended linking. No new features.
• New in 1.1: Set approximate number of max links per page.
• New in 1.2: Fixed bug when Ampersands (&) were used in keywords.
• New in 1.3: Added optional notice on posts with links and associated phrase.
• New in 1.5: Two new features: 1) You can now use a csv data file for your links (and advanced features) if you prefer and 2) You can use a custom user profile field to allow users to disable the mod individually if you choose.
• New in 1.5a: Updated German language file thanks to Igel1.
• New in 1.6: Fixed bug if keyword was part of thread title and thread title was a link in the post. (VB4 Only)
• New in 1.7: Added field to extend the regex easily through the mod settings. Included fix for bold/font color links.
• New in 2.0: Rewritten more efficient code. Added option to disable by styleid. Added GOLD version.

Example... If someone types:

"I bought it on Amazon."

This mod can auto convert it to:

"I bought it on Amazon."

And you would presumably put your Amazon affiliate code, if you had one, in the link.

NOTE: This mod does not alter the actual posts or the database. Disabling or uninstalling the mod will remove all links.

There is a VB3 and VB4 version of this mod, please download the correct version.

Full instructions in zip file.

Notice:
Since the following words are used in HTML tags I would avoid them as keywords:
style, div, class, pre, href, img, html, meta, name, rel, nofollow, and link.

I would also avoid any single letter or two letter keywords since they could easily be used accidentally in places you weren't intending.

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Please "Mark as Installed" if you use this.
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[Kolbi]

Voted

[Bozza]

Brilliant stuff - many thanks!

[BirdOPrey5]

Updated to version 1.0 - Stable Release!

Thank you all for your help beta testing this mod the last few weeks. I am now confident it is stable and ready for official release. I have just uploaded a new version 1.0.

There are no new features over the last Beta but I have added additional code to prevent unintended linking. (Links that are part of HTML elements and not actual words.)

Although I'm sure we will get the occasional report of a word not being compatible I think for the most part as is it should work for most people most of the time.

If you encounter an unintended link you can remove the keyword and let me know here until I can find a fix.

Enjoy.

[Randomm]

yeah my only problem with this is that let's say I link the word Play (a game store online) with Play.com

Whenever a word contains the char 'play', it links it making the whole word awkward...get what I'm saying?
Is there a way to fix this?

Of course
rated, nom, tagged, and installed

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Randomm

yeah my only problem with this is that let's say I link the word Play (a game store online) with Play.com

Whenever a word contains the char 'play', it links it making the whole word awkward...get what I'm saying?
Is there a way to fix this?

Of course
rated, nom, tagged, and installed

There's several options:

Make "Play.com" it's own keyword, put it above the "Play" keyword in settings and it will link the entire word.

Set "Match Whole Words Only" to YES. (But in the particular case of Play.com it probably still will only match "Play" because the period (.) is considered an end-of-word character. Not a bug in the program but just the way php works.

Use custom CSS to make the links look less different than standard text until someone actually mouseover's the link.

[eh69]

Look at home page vbulletin.org - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/portal.php and vote for this mod

Im proud that my idea is in MOTM And thanks again BirdOPrey5 for made this mod

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by eh69

Look at home page vbulletin.org - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/portal.php and vote for this mod

Im proud that my idea is in MOTM And thanks again BirdOPrey5 for made this mod

Thanks eh69, I always figured there was a working mod to do this already- I didn't realize the old one wasn't working out for people.

[COL NIL SATIS]

this is awesome!!!!!

[CThiessen]

Ni,
very god Mod - nominated.
A better alternative for Skimlinks.

I have 2 suggestions:
1. If you have a lot of Links it might be difficult to change one, you have to count the Lines in two boxes.

2. It bis good for internal linking an external (Ads) linking. But if possible i like to set this 2 Groups different.
Internal: follow and same Tab/Window
External: nofollow an new Tab window.

It might be good to have 4 Boxes (2 for internal Liks and 2 for external Links)

Or have one 1 Box with Parameters:
ex:

Word|Link|0|1 Parameter: 0=follow, 1=nofollow and 0= same Window, 1=new Window ore something like this.


Best regards
Christian

[BirdOPrey5]

Those are good ideas Christian, the single box idea has been mentioned before. I'm trying to find a way to make entering it easier.

In the mean time I am updating this mod to version 1.1 which allows for an approximate maximum links per page.

Updated to version 1.1.

You can now set *an approximate* number of total max links per page.

It is approximate because the mod will make links until it reaches the end of the post, VM, or social group message where it meets the page max number of links.