If you are seeing this then you're probably frustrated. :mad: This message is a generic message given by the Bot when there is no pattern in the post he can recognize (IE he can't find your words in his database.

The bot's database is created by building tables in your database during the botloader.php execution. If you're like me then you got it to start loading and then it would stall out. Mine showed loading different .aiml files and then would stop.

If it completes properly it should take a LONG time.... maybe 30 minutes or so. And then after a successful load of all the .aiml files (which build his databse of patterns) the script will return a colored message on your screen and you wil be prompted to try the talkerbot out. If you didn't get this message, then your .aiml files did not completely load.

My problem was timeouts on my server at the host. I even tried breaking up the .aiml files into smaller chunks but still after a minute or so of transfer and maybe a few files, it would quit.

What I ended up doing was editing the botloader.php file and taking out instances of "deletebot" which were basically clearing the tables each time a load started. I thought I was smart at first and I'll simply delete the files it showed that it loaded and then rerun botloader.php......

This was when I found out it was clearing the tables each time it executed. After editing the botloader.php file I was able to do the above method (running, deleteing files, re-running) and the mySQL table named "pattern" finally started growing like it should.

Now my bot actually answers posts instead of saying he doesn't feel well or can't connect to his database.

I hesitate to actually post the modded botloader.php file because I am sure that I did a terrible hack job on it code wise. Also, when the botloader would run, I wondered how muchof the last file it showed actually loaded into the table. So what I did was to delete all but the last one it was working on, that way when I re-ran it , it would start on the last one it was doing (to be sure it gets it all) I believe that this method probably creates redundant entries in the patterns table, but as I said, thsi was a hack-job, quick fix.

Anyway, I exported the "patterns" table from mine into a .sql file from the server and will attempt to post it here. maybe those with "Dumb bot syndrome" can import it via phpmyadmin directly into your dbase and give him an instant education.

Again: this is to solve the problem where the bot responds, but never really says anything except he can't connect with his database. If there is interest, I will also post the modded botloader.php file that prevents it from clearing the tables on each load.

(just noticed max file size prevents me attaching the zipped sql file. I will upload it to my server and try linking it.):D

Alright I think it uploaded OK. The zipped file is about 600K and it will unzip to about 6 Megs. It is in .SQL format and you should be able to import it into the "patterns" table. Click here to download.

Here is the botloader.php file that I spoke of above. It has been modified to prevent the script from erasing the bot tables before writing to them. That way you can write some files until it stops... delete the ones it wrote from the /alice/aiml folder... and then run it again to load more into the database, without it erasing the ones previosuly done.

This is an ugly hack, but it worked for me.

Again this is a quick mod of the code but it seems stable.

well, you explain more than i need to know. I dont need to know what chmod is i need to know a how to do it... I.E. where do i go to edit the properties, etc.


so if we just use this we dont need the SQL?\

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I still get a huge long error when i try to change the rate of posting... and i thought it was because i didnt chmod. But now folder alice is set to 777 and its still not working..

could it be because my tables are prefixed with vb_?

The botloader worked, it finished in almost no time, and i got the talk to bot thing and it worked fine. But what is the problem now?

Correct. Using this botloader file will allow you to upload files until it stalls, delete the ones it did, then urun again to upload more without clearing the patterns table each time.

The SQL file link was for those who wanted a quicker way to do it through mysqladmin.

Is it possible to solve the problem with the signs: é,á,ë,ä etc.? When these are present in the aiml the botloader dies with an error.

Also...when certain amount of aiml data is installed, the database goes down for one hour because of a limit set on mysql.

Is this problem solved when there are sql files for all tables as the patterns.sql from falcon 65?

you are very welcomed..........

Tim,

I had a number of issues installing the bot (currently v2.2.2) to our forums at optiquestsupport.com and others, but I was able to easily work them out. Given that, I'm more than positive if I were able to obtain that learner from you, I would have little trouble getting it to work assuming you have reasonable install instructions for it.

Thanks.

I feel the same way webdude........ He tried to help me load what he called a learner bot at my site almost 10 months ago, and it never worked. I have been waiting almost a year to see if the learner bot script could be made functional. It used to work on the original talkerbot, and there is a chat program that uses the same exact files......I haven't really messed with the chat alice program yet, that may be something worth looking into.

works with portuguese brazilian language?
btw thx

this a realy cool thing. install is easy and working perfect.