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

[Rik Brown]

Originally Posted by ddaybofb

NVM Figured out how to get it work



I get this error when importing xml file:
"The following dependencies were not met:

1. This product is not compatible with version 3.8.0 Beta 3 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 3.7.0 / Incompatible with 3.7.99 and greater)"

I'm guessing that since I installed this before upgrading to the 3.8.0 beta, I'm not getting any such error message. All the same, its creating the all the tags fine as far as I can tell. I'm wondering if Phalynx put that error message in there as a precaution in case there were any changes to the vb database schema in successive releases of vb.

-- Rik

[KevinL]

go into the xml and change the 3.7.99 to 3.8.1 and it should work OK.

[sherwood]

that does work to allow you to install it but there in no admincp options to change :S

any idea why?

[ericdesmontagne]

Even if cron task is well activated, old discussions without any tag are not automatically tagged. Do you know why ?
Thankyou for your good job.
vB 3.7.4 PL1
Last version of Autotag

[ericdesmontagne]

Well, each autotag cron look like this :
117915 Auto Thread Tagger 2008-11-30 02:31:41 Auto Thread Tagger processed 0 threads.
Meanwhile, i have thousand thread not tagged...

Anybody have an idea ?

[sdavis2702]

Sweet... thanks!

[dfc005]

Originally Posted by Phalynx

Once again, the filters are run before the prefixes because of "I didn't thought someone would need to filter the predefined prefixes". I will change this in next bigger version.

Hey mate, has this been added yet?

[eh9 daddy]

Originally Posted by ericdesmontagne

Well, each autotag cron look like this :
117915 Auto Thread Tagger 2008-11-30 02:31:41 Auto Thread Tagger processed 0 threads.
Meanwhile, i have thousand thread not tagged...

Anybody have an idea ?

i have the same problem on vb 3.8 b4

[paketeto]

The mod is perfect, i've just found a point to improve:

I have configured the mod to ad tags to the user tags (if any added), and i noticed that the replacement characters only works on the tags created by the mod, but no on the user's one (excuse my english).

For example:

I have a replacement character rule: 'ó'=>'o'
Users write in tags box: jamón
And then submits (with ajax off), and when seeing the created tags, the replacement characters went fine on automatic tags, but ignored for the user word, so "jamón" stils like "jamón", instead "jamon".

Is my fault or is something to do?

Thank you.

[MrNase]

Originally Posted by eh9 daddy

i have the same problem on vb 3.8 b4

Same here on vB 3.7.4

My log looks like this:

4191 Auto Thread Tagger 16:41, 03.12.2008 Auto Thread Tagger processed 0 threads.
4190 Auto Thread Tagger 16:37, 03.12.2008 Auto Thread Tagger processed 2 threads.



But there are many more threads without tags.


Edit:

I think I got it… The default value of taglist is not '0' or empty it is 'NULL' maybe that makes the difference.

So you should change the query in /cron/autotagger.php into this:

PHP Code:

    $threads = $vbulletin->db->query_read("SELECT
        t.taglist,
        t.dateline,
        t.forumid,
        t.postuserid,
        t.title,
        t.threadid,
        t.prefixid
        FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread AS t
        WHERE t.taglist IS NULL AND autoskip=0
    "); 


It results in:

4200 Auto Thread Tagger 16:54, 03.12.2008 Auto Thread Tagger processed 3273 threads.
4199 Auto Thread Tagger 16:54, 03.12.2008 Auto Thread Tagger processed 500 threads.
4198 Auto Thread Tagger 16:53, 03.12.2008 Auto Thread Tagger processed 500 threads.