New Posting Features - Automatic Thread Tagger

Automatic Thread Tagger


Description
When a user submits a new thread this modification will automatically take keywords from the thread title and use these as tags. You can use Automatic Thread Tagger to propose the user AJAX tags for his new thread, or it assigns new tags after saving the new thread. It can add the translated thread prefix to the tags.
Additionally, you can tag existing threads via maintenance and also scheduled tasks.

This modification is a successor to the terminated Automatic Thread Tagger by MrEyes:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=179927

As an example, if a user submits a thread with a title of:
"Fish Food for Cats!"

The thread will be automatically tagged with:

- Fish
- Food
- Cats

If the user also submits an actual tag of "Fish" this will not be duplicated. Any rules you have setup for tagging will be respected.
If you choose to do so this product will also automatically tag threads created by incoming RSS feeds.

Demo
I cannot show you the process of creation, but here is a list of tags generated by Auto Thread Tagger:
http://www.insideearth.net/tags.php?langid=5
http://www.insidesupcom.de/tags.php?langid=1


Automatic Tagging of existing threads
You can tag existing threads via maintenance or scheduled task/cron. They will be created with a special flag so they can be easily identified and deleted. Manual assigned tags are not touched. Maintenance is also working if Automatic Tagging is disabled via settings. Great if you want to test some settings. Automatic Tagging will take the date of the thread creation and also the userid of the creator. This process can be automated by running a scheduled job once a night.

Please keep in mind that tags that were proposed via AJAX are not tagged as auto tagged and therefore cannot be identified as such (and therefore not deleted automatically). If you want to retain the auto tagged flag you should disable AJAX and enable the tagging after the thread has been saved. As an alternative way you can also disable this and let new threads be tagged in the night from the scheduled job.


Installation / Upgrade
1. Upload all files from "upload" to your server, take care of the directory structure
2. Import "product-auto_thread_tagger110.xml" as a product, overwrite if it's already installed
3. Check settings
4. Run maintenance / Auto Tag Threads to tag existing threads (needed if you want to use the cron)

After install, and by default the modification is disabled, this will allow you to play around with configuration before switching it on.


Troubleshooting
If you report a bug please post the thread title that created it, without this I cannot test it and improve the language parsers.

* If no threads are tagged you will have to check the following:
- Is the modification enabled? Is the action you are testing enabled? (vBulletin tagging, whole auto thread tagger system, AJAX, new threads)
- Are the words you are using badwords or filtered out?

* Cron/Scheduled Task is not tagging all threads.
- The cron is limited to 500 (you can change this via settings) threads per run to avoid heavy impact on server. Make sure you run maintenance auto tagger before this to tag old threads. You can check the scheduled tasks log to see if it is running correctly.
Important: If a thread title does not meet minimum requirements to be included in tags (f.e. one word thread titles, too short words), it will be forever in this queue.

* I'm using polish, arabic, turkish, etc.. language and the tagger is not working like it should.
- If not already replaced, replace the filter replacement '&'=>'and' with ' & '=>'and' (a space before and after &)



Todo
What comes next? You decide. Tell me what you are missing and I'll look if it can be integrated.


Why thread title and not thread text?
Parsing the thread text for tags is an extremely unlikely addition as this would require some fairly heavy processing to ensure quality of tags.


What are Stopwords?
Stopwords is the name given to words which are filtered out prior to processing of tags.
The user Hostboard on vBulletin.org posted some resources regardings this:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=380



History
1.2.0, 9th August 2008
- Fixed error with missing threadid's
- Fixed error with AJAX and prefix
- Fixed error with not indexing tags via cron
- Added polish, spain, english stopwords
- Compatibel with vBulletin 3.8

[Charlie98902]

Has to be a custom style or mods used. I don't get such an error.

[needaltuna]

Will this improve search engine rankings?

[charles abiola]

Good job. Work fine.

[Hornstar]

Yeah looking more stable. good work. Thanks.

[redlabour]

Originally Posted by Charlie98902

Has to be a custom style or mods used. I don't get such an error.

No Custom Style and no Mod that can affect the Tags.

[Phalynx]

Regarding this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function split_tag_list() in /forum/includes/functions_autotagger.php on line 45

The function "split_tag_list" has been introduced in vBulletin 3.7.1 - Either you upgrade to 3.7.1/3.7.2 or I will do a workaround.

Originally Posted by yahoooh

when u use word: السوق
it will be in the tag:الشوق
by replacing one letter so it cause
different words from the origin word,
this occurs with some few words

Please clear the "Filter / Replacement Characters" and rerun recount. Does it still occur?

Originally Posted by Michelle

Suggestion for a really good automatic tagger:
Calculate how many words with more than X characters have been mentioned in more than Y% of the posts and add them as tags.
I can't think of a way to do that without being a performance hog though

Yes, parsing the whole posting would be a big performance issue. Beside that, I doubt there be will good things. You would need to maintain a big database of no-go words like "of", "we", "be", etc... - and this for every language.

Originally Posted by redlabour

The excluded Words and Filter / Replacement Characters are ignored. I have tried it several Times now after deleting all old Tags.

Cannot confirm that, working on three live boards perfectly.

Originally Posted by yahoooh

auto tag for existing thread not respect the badwords tag option in vbulletin

Originally Posted by redlabour

And the Hack is ignoring the Blocklist of Tagging from the normal vBulletin Tag-Options.

Will implement this.

Originally Posted by Pocket Aces

Hope to see option for forum inclusion in next update. By the way, if the thread title is edited, would it update the tags?

To get support, you will need to click "Mark as Installed".

[KURTZ]

*Kurtz checks the developing ...

[Phalynx]

Christian, you are jumping on almost all hacks I see - you have too much time

[KevinL]

This question was asked in the other thread...

Do we need to use the manual code edit still showed here if we use RSS feeds?

Do we still have to do this to include the RSS feeds?

Thanks

[KURTZ]

yes Marius, i spend my holidays on vb.org ... :S