Your welcome, actually I found your list on a SitePoint page where someone had cut and paste it. I did a little Googling to find your own listing.

Figure I might as well give credit to whom its due

Cheers,
Martin

1. Ability to add more than one link at a time (batch add, 5 or more).

2. Ability to edit/modify links (didn’t realize they were case sensitive, saw no way to edit, had to add a new one).

3. Option to open links in new window (I modded the file to do this already).

4. Bug: I had a link that had a keyword in the title attribute (title=”keyword”), and I got a weird error when I hovered over the link. It’s like it was trying to auto-link it. On a related note, I already did some manual links for keywords I’d like to add, and it auto-linked those as well. Would be nice if it would somehow ignore the ones that are already links.

Many thanks for the suggestion. I’ll look into it when I have a moment. Success with reaching a million!

Cheers,
Martijn

For example, say the keyword in the db is StOneHenge, and your article has “Stonehenge” in it. The text will match, and the link anchor will be “Stonehenge” from the article.

I did this by making a small mod to the replace function. Here’s my version:

function bm_keywordlink_replace($content)
{
$links = get_option(BM_KEYWORDLINK_OPTION);

if ($links)
foreach ($links as $keyword => $details)
{
list($link,$nofollow,$firstonly) = explode(”|”,$details);

$url = ” “;
$url .= “$0“;
$url .= ” “;

if ($firstonly) $limit = 1; else $limit=-1;

$content = preg_replace(”/\b$keyword\b/i”,$url,$content,$limit);
}

return $content;
}

You can see it in action on my blog: The Million-Dollar Dime

Cheers,
Sean

Your problems are caused by the plug-in’s simplistic search & replace routine. When I wrote it, I just needed to replace a few noun’s (Stonehenge does change much )

The solution is simple: a little more advanced pattern match routine that ensures that each match is on a word boundary. I will find some time and modify the code.

I will also have a look at the Joomla plugin you mentioned for ideas. Seems “simple” is over.

Cheers,
Martin

However, there are a few glitches that might need attention.

If I have put one URL for the key word “magic” and another URL for “magicians”, then the latter don’t work, as the first word/link is too greedy and URL-ifies it like this: (MAGIC)ians.

It also cuts into URLs already in the text.
Like the text:
http ://magic.performance.net becomes
http ://(MAGIC).performance.net

Also… but I’m not quite sure of it yet, but it seems like it also in some cases, cuts into the already generated link. Like it check for keywords in a string even after a URL already has been assigned… Not sure yet, but I’ve gotten strange results hard to explain otherwise.

While trying it out, I also experimented with getting the title attribute into the generated link. I did it quite simple. In the link field, I put the URL and a title phase together, separated with a vertical bar | and then used the explode function during the replacement. A little later, I expanded the idea to:

http://www.thesite.com|A good site|N|F

Then in the code, that got exploded into:
The URL, a phrase for the title attribute, N becomes rel=nofollow, and F for replacing the First occurrence only. A bit messy perhaps, but it was quicker than to modify all the form fields and such.

Previously, in Joomla, I’ve used “Ludo Autolinkbot”, which works perfectly as far as I’ve noticed. Perhaps it would be interesting to see how the tricky bits are solved there? It can be found here:
http ://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,1575/Itemid,35/

(sorry if I’m duplicating a post, but nothing seemed to happen when I pressed submit)