Hi - I have just installed this hack and get the same error as you in your post 334. Did you manage to figure it out? Please share...

(I do get a first reply from the bot, but only the smiley. No second reply.)

In my case, it was a matter of chmod'ing ALL the subdirectories, not just Alice's subdirectories, but also the subdirectories of Alice's subdirectories to 777.

I tend to read directions literally, and not try to read things into them. In this case, you need to.

Every once in a while, it refers to itself as Alice. Is there a quick fix to change that to its username?

You can change it's name in the "bot" table.

I think this is something different. The name is set appropriately in the Bot table.

Example of a partial reply:

"The ALICE chat robot can follow many things"

Also, it likes to cut off the first letter from words a lot, especilly after a punctuation mark of some sort ("?", ".", "!").

Could anyone send me their file to admin@invoid.net?

D.aiml seems corrupt in the downloads I get. Its the only file that returns 0 categories inserted.

Sweet!
Thank you - I managed to run botloader with no errors after chmoding EVERY directory to 777.

I am still geting the following error when posting a new thread:

Warning: fopen("http://www.athlonarena.com/forums/upload/alice/src/talk.php?input=will+you+ever+work%3F", "r") - No such file or directory in /usr251/home/banderse/public_html/forums/upload/tomstalkerbot.php on line 46

Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /usr251/home/banderse/public_html/forums/upload/tomstalkerbot.php on line 47

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /usr251/home/banderse/public_html/forums/upload/tomstalkerbot.php on line 48

Here is line 46-48 in tomstalkerbot.php:

$ff = fopen($ttb_alicelocation . "?input=" . urlencode($rss),"r");
$response = fread($ff,10000);
fclose($ff);


I have checked that the alicelocation is correct and tomstalkerbot.php is uploaded to my root (forums/upload). I am only able to get smiley reply's and only the first time (no second reply of any kind in the same thread).

Any hints?

OK, WTF, now my templates table has 0 records in it (used to have 31000)

Which would probably explain why it doesn't answer... :confused:

In what table are the entries stored from the .aiml files?

Radgam - It's working a lot better for me without these last two lines:

$response = preg_replace("/(\?|\.|!)(\w)/" , " $1", $response );
$response = preg_replace("/(\w)\s+(\w|\?|\.|!)/","$1 $2",$response);

They seem to be causing all the punctuation related problems I mentioned.