upgrade to GAL 6 - not working

[Morgan]

The old regexp is as follows:

#(\b((?<=\s|"right">|"left">|"center">|<li>|<span class="highlight">|<strong>|<b>|<i>)(?<!--GAL--> )($1))s?\b)#im

You can add that as a new regexp and then under Categories, you can chose the regexp to use, and then Rebuild RegExp Cache to ensure its use.

The new regexp is as follows:

#(\b($1)\b(?=[^>]*<)(?!.*</option>))#im

This new regexp was made so that text inside HTML tags does not get linked. For example, you wouldn't want to link GARS in the following tag:

- if this were showing a real image GARS would not be linked with the new regexp
- as this line is not a real image, but rather text for an image tag, GARS links

<img src="wherever.gif" border="0" alt="See GARS in action" />

The old regexp would create auto-links inside tags, but you can try it if you want. Also, with GARS 6 keywords should contain only "word" characters (\w for those familiar with regexp), apostrophe ('), and dash (-). Other characters are stripped, and matches are made on keywords surrounded by boundaries (\b for those familiar with regexp). That means a keyword such as cat would match cat but not catch and not scat and not scatter.

[cellarius]

Did not work, I'm afraid. There are no GALs with the old RegEx either...

[Morgan]

Hmm, I'll take you up on that forum access.

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by Morgan

Hmm, I'll take you up on that forum access.

You got pm.

[cellarius]

Already see you on my board (forgot to make you invisible and several of my users warned me off that there was a rogue Admin on the loose ).

Just wanted to say: If needed, you can have ftp access too, of course.


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Ceterum censeo that there really should be a Photopost import script for Photoplog

[Wildthinks]

i tried the old regex ... no different...

some of my cats are displayed the other not ....
mysterious...

[Morgan]

Go to the vB ACP -> Geek Auto-Linker -> Categories and for each category click it, and then under Forums, check that the forums where you want auto-links to appear are ticked.

	GAL The Geek Auto-linker is the famous vBulletin system for auto highlighting key words is posts with links and/or popups. A wonder for glossaries and sponsors!

[Morgan]

One thing I just found... If you do not set any content for a keyword, then there is no auto-link for that keyword. This makes sense if you are using the gal_link_popup template (as the content is what is shown in the pop-up) but not for the gal_link_standard template (as this template is used to redirect to another page). Am looking into this now, but in the meantime, if you are using the gal_link_standard template, add something, anything, to the content box.

[Morgan]

Okay folks, tweaks done. Grab the GAL package again and FTP three files:

• /geek/gal/includes/gal_class_core.php
• /geek/gal/includes/gal_class_vb_db.php
• /geek/gal/includes/gal_class_vb_db_dictionary.php

This should take care of the incorrect autolink.php link, as well as deal with the keywords where there is no content.

If not already done, remember to go to the vB ACP -> Geek Auto-Linker -> Categories and for each category in the Categories box, click the link, and then under Forums, check the forums where you want auto-links from that category to appear.

	GAL The Geek Auto-linker is the famous vBulletin system for auto highlighting key words is posts with links and/or popups. A wonder for glossaries and sponsors!

[cellarius]

Thank you very much for your quick help!