vbTags - a web2.0 like tag thread hack for vbulletin 3.5

[devguru]

vbTags
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Description
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Think of a tag as a simple category name or keyword search tech.
People can categorize your forum thread with any tag that makes sense.


Primary Features:
- AJAX Technology (no refreshing during tagging)
- Tag clouds
- autocomplete

Features list:

* Tag any thread with an unlimited number of tags(use spaces to separate tags,ajax with no refresh page,autocomplete)
* List all the tags associated with an thread
* List all threads tagged with a given tag
* List all users tagged with a given tag
* List top 5 tags associated with an thread in forumdisplay thread list
* Generate popular tag cloud or simple tag list in any period (1 day, 1 week, …)
* Generate top tag contribution user cloud in any period (1 day, 1 week, …)
* Generate my tag list in any period (1 day, 1 week, …)
* Provides the means to dynamically navigate tags and see user tag intersections
......

Database Backups Recommended!
Although I have installed this script in a big forum for a month already, but I just test it in php5.
it IS recommended that you backup your database before installing this product!!

Details
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1 Product XML
3 PHP Script
1 css file
4 jscript file

Installation
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1) Upload all files in floder to your vbb forum
2) Import product-vbTags.xml
3) Edit the template(see readme.txt)


Usage
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Go to vBulletin Options / vbTags Settings to make your settings

If there are things missing from the documentation, please let me know!

P.S. Screenshots are included

auto tag tools
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Description
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Synchronize thread_tag with thread's tag field

auto_tag.php:

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you have to edit this file, include your database configure ,forum id and keywords

* auto tag thread with forum id and keywords
* auto tag condition: the thread's replycount>10,$config['views'] > 300

auto_tag_byuser.php

you have to edit this file, include your database configure ,user id and keywords

* auto tag thread with user id and username
* auto tag condition: the thread's replycount>30,$config['views'] > 900

Enjoy

- Tony Li

[Feckie (Roger)]

Clicks Install

[devguru]

Clicks Install
thank your interesting , look forward to your suggestion and respond :)

[q8-star]

It sound great ,but ,isn't that the same as Thread prefix ,or at least similar to it ?

[devguru]

It sound great ,but ,isn't that the same as Thread prefix ,or at least similar to it ?

It's certainly different, you can learn more about tags from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tags


A tag is a keyword which acts like a subject or category. A keyword is used to organize webpages and objects on the Internet. Each user "tags" a webpage or image using his/her own unique tag. An image or webpage may have multiple tags that identify it. Webpages and images with identical tags are then linked together and users may use the tag to search for similar webpages and images.


Usage

Tags can be used to specify properties of an object that are not obvious to the object itself. Tags can be used to find objects with similar properties or to organize objects.

Tags are often used in social software and Web 2.0 pages. The method of allowing open categorization of the Internet is often referred to as Folksonomy.

Bookmark Tags are used in Flock (web browser) and will surface in Firefox 2.0

Popular websites that use Tags

* Del.icio.us [1] - A social bookmarking site that allows users to bookmark many sites and then tag them with many descriptive words allowing other people to search by those terms to find pages that other people found useful. See Also: Social bookmarking
* Gmail [2] - A popular web-mail site that was one of the first to allow categorization of objects using tags, known as "labels" on emails.
* Flickr [3] - A service that allows users to tag images with many specific nouns, verbs, and adjectives which describe the picture. This is then searchable. See Also: Metadata#Image metadata
* Basecamp [4] - A project collaboration service that allows users working on projects to tag portions of their work making it easy to find data.

...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tags

[michaelbenson]

Perfect, i have been requesting and looking for a tagging system for vBulletin ever since vBulletin 3.5 began in development. Judging by the screenshots it looks just as fluent and intergrated as any blog tagging system would be.

/me installs.

[q8-star]

It's certainly different, you can learn more about tags from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tags


A tag is a keyword which acts like a subject or category. A keyword is used to organize webpages and objects on the Internet. Each user "tags" a webpage or image using his/her own unique tag. An image or webpage may have multiple tags that identify it. Webpages and images with identical tags are then linked together and users may use the tag to search for similar webpages and images.


Usage

Tags can be used to specify properties of an object that are not obvious to the object itself. Tags can be used to find objects with similar properties or to organize objects.

Tags are often used in social software and Web 2.0 pages. The method of allowing open categorization of the Internet is often referred to as Folksonomy.

Bookmark Tags are used in Flock (web browser) and will surface in Firefox 2.0

Popular websites that use Tags

* Del.icio.us [1] - A social bookmarking site that allows users to bookmark many sites and then tag them with many descriptive words allowing other people to search by those terms to find pages that other people found useful. See Also: Social bookmarking
* Gmail [2] - A popular web-mail site that was one of the first to allow categorization of objects using tags, known as "labels" on emails.
* Flickr [3] - A service that allows users to tag images with many specific nouns, verbs, and adjectives which describe the picture. This is then searchable. See Also: Metadata#Image metadata
* Basecamp [4] - A project collaboration service that allows users working on projects to tag portions of their work making it easy to find data.

...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tags

Well thanks ,I might reconsider this hack again now .
Thanks for the help again ...

[bashy]

HI

I have installed...

the tags i have just added are showing 2 xx for removing the tags

Also the text on the foruhome is way too big... sime in the tag page as well

EDIT....I take it this is what the clod thingy is for in the options :)

Also All the time, should be All Time

Also i feel that Today This week All Time should be in a cell of its own and along side the actual tags?

Also the username in the postbit is far too big

Could you please address these for me?

[Snake]

Nicey!

/me clicks on install

[bashy]

If you have forums for certain usergroups only and you set a tag in that forum it shows the tag and the thread to everyone :(

Please can this be address ASAP?

[AlexanderT]

That's a great addition! I haven't updated to 3.5x yet, but once I will, this is going to be my first hack to be installed!

Thanks!

[devguru]

HI

I have installed...

the tags i have just added are showing 2 xx for removing the tags


two [x] [x] is because your are tag owner and admin. if you are admin, you can have [x] in all the tags . other people can't see two [x] [x] . And thanks your mention I will merge them if you are admin.


Also the text on the foruhome is way too big... sime in the tag page as well

The font is too big, because tags is too little, and all the tags is in top level.


EDIT....I take it this is what the clod thingy is for in the options :)

You can edit tag.css from time to time as your tags number increase.


Also All the time, should be All Time

thanks you point, i will correct it.


Also i feel that Today This week All Time should be in a cell of its own and along side the actual tags?

I am not sure where to put these links, do you have any good suggestion?


Also the username in the postbit is far too big

I will check it.


Could you please address these for me?
Sure... tonight , I will update the version.

[devguru]

If you have forums for certain usergroups only and you set a tag in that forum it shows the tag and the thread to everyone :(

Please can this be address ASAP?

Stand by, I will resovle this probrem today.

[devguru]

Nicey!

* Lil Ripsta clicks on install

Thanks, do you unistall it , any probrem do you want to address ?

[bashy]

Hi devguru..

Thanks for addressing the few issues :)

As for the Today This week All Time i think even above the tags and in its own cell would be better :)

[username12]

I still don't get it, but I'll install it once some of the issues have been worked out.

[djwins]

It would be useful to see a demo...sounds interesting!

[COBRAws]

Any live demo? This is really cool! But I want to live-test first.

[bashy]

I spose you could look at my site... www.bashys-place.com as it is up and running.... there needs to be a few tweaks here and there and the author is looking into them :)

You can see them as a guest but to do a post test you would need to reg im afraid

[devguru]

I spose you could look at my site... www.bashys-place.com as it is up and running.... there needs to be a few tweaks here and there and the author is looking into them :)

You can see them as a guest but to do a post test you would need to reg im afraid

bashy,thank your support. I noticed that the tag list of the thread does not show up in the first time, I believe it is because the current php version cause this probrem, what's your php vesion ? i will figure it out lately.

I have added some auto tag tools for existing forum thread , you probrem want to have a look.

but don't do much work in this stage , this hack is very early beta stage, I will add seo url feature(with apache .htaccess support) and more configure options.

[bashy]

Hi devguru

No probs on the support m8....
My PHP is 4.4.1

The auto tag side of this i will take a look now :)

[bashy]

Ok...I have filled in my database information...
I am a little lost as to what happens next..

It says sommat about keywords and forum ID but i dont see anything in the files to sort out..

Can you explain this a little further and what happens once the files are configured correctly please? :)

[devguru]

Ok...I have filled in my database information...
I am a little lost as to what happens next..

It says sommat about keywords and forum ID but i dont see anything in the files to sort out..

Can you explain this a little further and what happens once the files are configured correctly please? :)

say , i see you have a tutoria forum in your forums, forum id is 113, you want to this tools tag all the thread that replycount>10 , views > 300 with 'tutorials' keyword'

you have to edit function autotaglist(), add

'113' => array('tutorials'),


to $fields arrary .

then run command 'php auto_tag.php'

[devguru]

bashy, I have resolved the probrem about the the thread permission(don't show the tag thread to no permission user);

I am not sure why the tag list of the thread does not show up in your forums , could you help me check in your forum:

put


$thread_tags='';


above

function getTagCloudSize($popularity,$maxpopularity)


in tag_function.php

I wish this modification will fix this probrem. if this is done, i will update the current version .

[devguru]

Any live demo? This is really cool! But I want to live-test first.

I have a big Chinese forum run this hack: http://www.canadameet.com/forums/ , you can see also http://www.canadameet.com/forums/tag.php.

it looks much better while you got a lot of tags ...

[bashy]

Hi m8

Just done the edit and sent you admin login deets by pm....

[bashy]

right then just so that i dont mess things up

I take it the '113' => array('tutorials'), gones somewhere in the code below, i just need you to point exactly where please :)


/* auto tag thread with forum id and keyword
* $config['replycount'] = 10; // auto tag condition: the thread's replycount>10
* $config['views'] = 300; // auto tag condition: the thread's views>300
* example
'14' => array('vancouver'),
'15' => array('toronto'),
* */


function autotaglist()
{
$fields = array(

);

return $fields;
}



?>

say , i see you have a tutoria forum in your forums, forum id is 113, you want to this tools tag all the thread that replycount>10 , views > 300 with 'tutorials' keyword'

you have to edit function autotaglist(), add

'113' => array('tutorials'),


to $fields arrary .

then run command 'php auto_tag.php'

[devguru]

right then just so that i dont mess things up

change:

$fields = array(

);


to

$fields = array(
'113' => array('tutorials'),
);

[bashy]

Cheers m8 that sorted it out :)

Tell ya what though, i wish i didnt go through all the tutorials this afternoon and add a tutorial tag to each of the tutorials ha ha ha ha :o

#!/usr/bin/php Database Connected successfully ==================================== Now processing auto tags ==================================== Processing thread in forum 113 Total records: 0 . Done! Process completed!

change:

$fields = array(

);


to

$fields = array(
'113' => array('tutorials'),
);

[Torqued]

Can you have tags that are more than one word?

[devguru]

Cheers m8 that sorted it out :)

Tell ya what though, i wish i didnt go through all the tutorials this afternoon and add a tutorial tag to each of the tutorials ha ha ha ha :o

you see, Processing thread in forum 113 Total records: 0

bashy, you tag nothing, probably you have to change the tag condition:

$config['replycount'] = 10; // auto tag condition is replycount>10
$config['views'] = 300;


to


$config['replycount'] = 0; // auto tag condition is replycount>10
$config['views'] = 0;


and I figure it out your forums do not call the hook : showthread_complete

so the code "Show tags in showthread(vbTags) " do not run in this forum and the tag list doesnot show up .

[bashy]

Yeah m8 i did notice that :)

Is there a work around for the Show tags in showthreads?

[bashy]

#!/usr/bin/php Database Connected successfully ==================================== Now processing auto tags ==================================== Processing thread in forum 113 Total records: 0 . Done! Process completed!

Still not worked an i have a feeling i know why, Some hacks dont work with the GARS system and this is what the tutorials system is, I can manually add the tags to the posts in that section and any other section but for some reason the auto side of it is not playing ball, i have going to try it in another setion (none GARS) brb

EDIT: nope still didnt work

[devguru]

#!/usr/bin/php Database Connected successfully ==================================== Now processing auto tags ==================================== Processing thread in forum 113 Total records: 0 . Done! Process completed!

Still not worked an i have a feeling i know why, Some hacks dont work with the GARS system and this is what the tutorials system is, I can manually add the tags to the posts in that section and any other section but for some reason the auto side of it is not playing ball, i have going to try it in another setion (none GARS) brb

EDIT: nope still didnt work

I forget to mention tableprefix, do you have a tableprefix. in that case ,you have to $config['tableprefix'], anyway i will update the tools to use the vbb configure lately.

[devguru]

Can you have tags that are more than one word?
do you mean multiword as a tag ?

[bashy]

Yeah i dont use any prefix that i know of lol...
I have never entered a prefix whenever i have been asked for 1

[bashy]

I think they mean something like toys games barbie dolls as 1 tag? if they do then yes you can lol if you dont mean that then sorry i dont know what you mean

[Torqued]

do you mean multiword as a tag ?

Yeah. For example: President Bush as a tag...

http://www.technorati.com/tag/President+Bush

[devguru]

Yeah. For example: President Bush as a tag...

http://www.technorati.com/tag/President+Bush


You may have already noticed a limitation to tagging in del.icio.us ,same as in vbTags: spaces aren?t allowed. This leads to three different strategies for multi-word tags:

1. underscore - put an underscore where the space would be. Using this example, should have used ?President_Bush? as tag.
2. mashup - remove the spaces altogether. Using this example, should have used ?PresidentBush?.
3. hyphen - put a hyphen where the space would be. This is the one for ?President-Bush?.

I have no idea how to support technorati multi-word tags in this moment, it probably causes the "space separated" to "comma separated" tag

[Torqued]

It looks like %20 is a valid encoded replacement for the space:

http://www.technorati.com/tag/President%20Bush

info on %20 encoding for space: http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm

[SHANE-D-PAIN]

Fecking Sweetness. :)

Installs. :P

[Torqued]

devguru: any thoughts/updates on the multi-word tag issue? :)

[djwins]

this hack could be awesome if just tightened up a bit.

[WritersBeat]

Can anyone help me out with lowering the size of the tags on forumhome? It's to big on my forum.

[WritersBeat]

I think there should be a way to search for a specific tag/ organize?

Otherwise there's no point really.

[sensimilla]

<tr><td class="smallfont" colspan="3">TagsŁş<br></td></tr> typo here..

and its a real mess in Opera... any chance to make it work with the best browser on Earth ?


and how can i make fonts smaller for tags in forums ? see attached image

TIA

[WritersBeat]

Is this hack even still being worked on anymore?

[carla]

Is this hack even still being worked on anymore?

If it is...it's throwing up an error:

Warning: require_once(tag_function.php) [function.require-once]: failed
to open stream: No such file or directory in /index.php(485) : eval()'d
code on line 1
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required
'tag_function.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php')
in /home/mm/public_html/board/index.php(485) : eval()'d code on line 1

Any suggestions?

[sensimilla]

After beeing deleted from post TAG still appear in cloud and forumlist.
With such support I am removing it from my site.
IN addon it messed up the quick edit option. It freeze with this hack.

Good luck with next releases.

[Torqued]

:(

Any further development on this mod?

[hinch]

installed this last night working fine however just a few pointers.

Viewing the tags list allows people not in the usergroup to view private section the ability to read the threads tagged in the private section.

also it breaks the ajax quick edit. after editing a thread clicking save does commit the changes however the page never refreshes.

going to look see if i can fix both of these myself however i'm far from a php/vbulletin guru so dont know if i can.

[Benj]

a few suggestions.... ways to tag users profiles and calendar event :D

Great hack ill sure to use

*installs*

[WritersBeat]

installed this last night working fine however just a few pointers.

Viewing the tags list allows people not in the usergroup to view private section the ability to read the threads tagged in the private section.

also it breaks the ajax quick edit. after editing a thread clicking save does commit the changes however the page never refreshes.

going to look see if i can fix both of these myself however i'm far from a php/vbulletin guru so dont know if i can.
Did you find a fix?

[sensimilla]

Dont try to remove it.. Ive uninstalled this hack and I get permanent db errors now

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.4:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(thread.threadid)) AS threads
FROM thread AS thread ,thread_tag AS thread_tag
WHERE thread.threadid = thread_tag.thread_id

AND visible = 1

AND thread_tag.user_id = 1043;

MySQL Error : Table 'thread_tag' doesn't exist Error Number : 1146

I would appreciate any help with that.

[WritersBeat]

Can we get some expert coders to help clean this hack up?

[WritersBeat]

Please, just fix the quick edit? Anybody?

[AlexanderT]

Dont try to remove it.. Ive uninstalled this hack and I get permanent db errors now



I would appreciate any help with that.
Well since it complains about the a missing thread_tag table, which is unique to this hack, I can only assume that you haven't fully removed the hack yet.

Btw, I noticed that vbTags uses the full prototype js libraries (100k+) to do its job... just in case someone is continuing developing this hack, it'd be nice to go for something more light-weighted considering that only basic Ajax features are used.

[WritersBeat]

Arg, could any coder please pick the development up on this one? I'd even pay. I need some good tag functionality.

[Torqued]

Arg, could any coder please pick the development up on this one? I'd even pay. I need some good tag functionality.

I'll 2nd that.

[WritersBeat]

So... any one want $$? lol

[Benj]

i 3rd this i would like a working version of this :D

[darkover]

Hello!
Firstly, some bug repport:
- can't remove tag which contains text: 'c++,'
- incorrect working in Opera - autocompleting layer opening without styling, there is only unnumbere list.

Feature requests:
- pls, enable support of non-unicode encodings, we use windows-1251 (cyrylic), and can't use russian tag names.
- pls, enable authorisation option with support user groups - we have closed boards for non-VIP members, and opened for all (members and guests).
- pls, enable multiwords tags. Look at livejournal tags - thay multiwords tags entering in apostrophes, like 'multi words'.
- pls, enable posibility for edit tags for moderators
- pls, enable posibility for add tags only for moderators.

[blogtorank]

Kick ass hack!!!!!!!!!!!

]# php auto_update_thread_tags_field.php

Database Connected successfully
====================================
Now processing auto update thread tags fiels
====================================
Processing thread in forum
Total records: 4312181
...
Done!
Process completed!

[blogtorank]

So... any one want $$? lol

You can PM me what you're willing to pay ;)

[hurry]

Hello, please tell me how to restrict for only admins to add tags to threads? What code should I add and where?

[hurry]

How do I search the tags? Where is the search box for the tags?

[WritersBeat]

There isn't any, and no one else wants to develop it.

[hurry]

Please can Tony or someone tell us how to get a Search box for the tags.

[WritersBeat]

You can't unless a new version comes out - which i doubt.

[Phrost]

What is the code to display only the top/most popular tag for a thread?

[rob30UK]

Hold on to your hats....

[jeffj]

Hold on to your hats....


TAG! - you're it!

[murrtex]

I have Ajax problem..
I cant edit thread it can but.it doesnt auto refresh...

[murrtex]

is there anybody??

[magnaromagna]

hi, tried to install into 3.6.2 but have a problem: login/logoff does not work properly. This hack is only for 3.5?

[TheComputerGuy]

yes...hence the name 3.5

[djwins]

Do yourself a favor and check out this hack instead:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=127820

[magnaromagna]

how to permit to put tags only to certains usergroups?
thanks

[Sir_Yaro]

uninstall....