I guess I misunderstood then? I thought running botleaner was the only way to get the learned posts into the bot's database?

It is. Botloader.php is the file you run the first time when your first setting him up that puts all the other info in the database. If you have run the sql files that setup the bots tables then just use botlearner without using botloader he will only know what you guys teach him.

Okay.. so I screwed-up and ran botloader, having troubles getting him going.
How can I removed the database entries loaded? As I said I want him to only know what we teach him (going to use it as a FQ of sorts, specific to my site's audience)

It's installed and learning, but is NOT moving the posts from "Teach" to "Learned"

Question: is the post ID (the first in either thread) supposed to be the post NUMBER (ie; "1") in the thread or the actual post ID number?

I have to admit I got a little confused during installation with this part:
Someone care to make that a little more clear? I have learnwhat and startup in the same directory and they contain different info... I modified "learnwhat" only. Do I just copy the contents of learnwhat into startup, then put <learn>learnwhat.xml<learn> in it (into startup)?

Dont even read that part its not needed. Just start with bot learner and modify it to make your bot custom. To reset the bot you need to drop the tables that the sql file setup. I would list all the tables but i dont have the files handy.

Got it working, he does learn and the teach and Learned threads work.

When you ask him who someone is, he returns the right answer but always starts his reply with something like "I don't know the name". Ugg.

I am having a simular issue. Mine is saying

XML error: junk after document element at line 2


I think it may be in my external.php as when I go to my AIML I get this error

Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_STRING' or `T_VARIABLE' or `T_NUM_STRING'

Okay, I give up. What table is the learned (via this mod) data stored in?

Yes thats from your external.php not being hacked correctly.

Okiewan drop these tables "bot,bots,conversationlog,dstore,gmcache,gossip,pa tterns,templates,thatindex,thatstack" then run the sql file included in my talkerbot hack then run botlearner.php to start teaching it stuff.

pattern and template.

What errors are you running into? DB errors or something? I don't have any traffic flowing through mine so it's hard to test for everything. What is happening?