May Allah help him regain his health. Amen.

I am back to working on this so you all know.

/cheer :)

1. I downloaded the zip file.
2. Uploaded it to my forum root folder.
3. Edited dbprefs.php and changed only the file pathes.
4. Uploaded dbprefs.php to my server.
5. Uploaded ewt_talkerbot.php to my forum root folder.
6. Added product-ewt_talkerbot-v2.2.2.xml to my forum admin and edited the bot name and its forum id's.
7. My alice dir and its sub folders/files were chmoded 777
8. I try running botloader.php

Running botloader gives this error:

The bot does show up and say he is not feeling well if someone types something. Phpmyadmin does show two new tables - bot and bots. Id is 0.

Any ideas why botloader won't run and why the bot is sick?

Cheers

woohoo... don't know if you saw my earlier post... but can you do away with the fopen call and replace it with CURL? I obviously don't have the syntax figured properly to get it working.

Im already hard at work on 2.2.4 which will fix a few more things and get it working on all server setups hopefully and then will proble be the last release for the 2.2.x line of the talkerbot so i can shift focus over to the dev of v3. ;)

Awesome. I look forward to trying this.

Is there a way for this thing to use your boardname instead of having to introduce yourself to it first?

I had to do "my name is *username*" before it would actually "know" my boardname, and not just respond with a "Your name is , seeker."

With over 560 posts anyone have this happen to them? Are my install steps not right?

I'm getting the Internal Error too. I changed my values to 755 and that didnt work. I also tried putting sub.inc to 777 and everything else the same.

thats great!! cool

Chmod 777 -R the whole alice directory. Then chmod 755 admin directory. Then chmod 755 botloader.php file. Then try running the botloader file. Mine works now.

To talk to the bot, I had to chmod 755 SRC directory and talk.php file.

Now, how do I keep people from accessing the dbprefs file? If I make the file chmod 700 then the bot gets "sick".

still doesnt work!

keep in mind i havent forgotten about any of you. I am hard at work on him still. Plus I am trying to prepare some guides and other things to help avoid all the confusion.

One thing I have noticed is that if you tell the bot to listen and respond to ALL forums; it will. If you make the bot a registered user, it will still listen and respond in forums it is not supposed to have access to.

Do we have to upload any files?

anybody know whats up with my problem? I'm still getting 403 when i try to connect to my botloader.php :[ i tried chmoding 777, 755 :|

When I first installed I chmodded and got loads of errors, I started again without chmodding and everything has worked fine ever since.

still the same for me.....update made no changes whatsoever.

I will see about getting 2.2.5 out today.

P.S. everybody who wishes to be kept uptodate with the talkerbots status please click the following link: http://vbhacks.extremewebtech.com/fo...=install&tid=1

it takes 2 minutes to register mate........whats the problem?

Works like a charm :) it gets a bit of a monk on when you swear at it though lol.

2 minutes to register to a site that i may not use exept to download a hack is 2 minutes too many. Cheasy way to drive traffic to the site.

Warning: main(dbprefs.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/.hiam/niceman/musiciansquarters.com/forums/botloader.php on line 24

Warning: main(dbprefs.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/.hiam/niceman/musiciansquarters.com/forums/botloader.php on line 24

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'dbprefs.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/.hiam/niceman/musiciansquarters.com/forums/botloader.php on line 24

Warning: main(botloaderfuncs.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/.hiam/niceman/musiciansquarters.com/forums/botloader.php on line 25

Warning: main(botloaderfuncs.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/.hiam/niceman/musiciansquarters.com/forums/botloader.php on line 25

Anyone thanks?? Im sure rookie mistake great hack

if thats the way ppl feel, then why should the author even bother supporting it, if u dont show support by goin to the site and regging?
surely ure life cant be that busy, to fit in 2 minutes to reg?

wasnt aware depriving someone traffic to their site was such an issue for some??

This isn't a paid hack, this is a freebie that should abide by the rules of .org.

Obviously if people want to contribute and post on the authors site, they should have to register... but I think Tim is pushing the line here.

I registered and will contribute as I find time (or not) on extremwebtech, but I think fxs158 has a valid point. :twocents:

Can you imagine registering on every tom , D ick and harry site to download a hack? Why do you think that Vbulletin.org exist? To offer a centralize location for people to get hacks, unfortunatelly some people writte a hack and right away want to drive traffic to their sites.

Better ways to get traffic to sites in my humble opinion, I am not going to register to 20 plus sites simple to get a hack. If everyone that provides hacks did the same crap then there would be no reason for this site to exist. You ever think about that?

It is down right cheezy to make people register, I could oblige by registering and never visiting or posting. What did the web site owner gained by having me register? An email adress? We have enough spam as It is, do you think I want people sending me emails to offer services and products I do not want? He stated that in order to offer better support the hack would be supported at his site. If that was the whole reason then he should allow for downloads without being a member. However the reason seems to be simply to drive traffic to his site and not to offer better support. I fail to see what he can do better there that he cannot do on this thread?

Thank you for the hack, you can do as you wish with it, but at least call a spade a spade and stop assuming that people are naive. By the way, I do not writte hacks, so before we get someone smart telling me "why don't you wrrite a hack and give it away for free" I already answered the reason why I do not doit! ;)

mebbe its just me, but ppl seem to be missing the point here?

he DIDNT HAVE TO post it here in the first place?

I got it installed and it seems to be working, but is replies with

There should be no DB connection issues as far as I can think, in fact if there was a DB issue I expect it would not have installed.

Any thoughts?

BTW: just read the above few posts, some people need to get a life he done all this work for you and you are crying because you had to register on his site to download it, grow up.

He had his reasons. If he didn't do it then Talkerbot may not have been updated or ceased to exist and you would have nothing. So if you don't like it I will suggest trying to find another hack that does the same job on vb.org....

Anyway... can someone tell me if this works on 3.6.2 please?

I just installed the new version from Tim's site.

It seems to work in 3.6.2 so far.

Thanks Dobbs I'll give it a try!

Thanks eXtremeTim

This is cool

Install ;)

i still cant run botloader :{ i chmoded everything :{ SOMEONE HELP!

i get some internal server error.

Jchen

support is no longer given in this forum, check the link at the top of the page.
You are alos going to have to provide more info. "i have internal server errors" doesn't tell anyone enough to help solve your problem.