We are a content provider with roughly 4,000 pages
or articles and interviews. And we have a phpBB3 forum
with another 3,000 pages.

Our content manager has a feature that will search the
content text for certain words & phrases. And if that phrase exists,
it will convert that phrase into an internal link, pointing
to other content on the site.

The application utilizes an ini file that matches keywords &
phrases to the URLs.

Does anything like this exist for phpBB?

Thanks!

I know this is an old post but I see nothing wrong with giving an answer so that users in the future that have the same question can have the answer.

Here is a mod that does what you wanted.

th23 AutoLinks

Description: Predefined words/phrases used in posts or private messages (PMs) are automatically linked to a specified URL.

http://th23.de/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10

Hope this helps someone.

Typo

Better late, than never. Thanks!