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

[tfw2005]

Second issue, Registered users can't post This for instance:

Thank you, Everyone.

It returns the error message:

The following errors occurred with your submission:
Tags cannot be overly common words (you).

How do I stop this from happening?

[Lea Verou]

Originally Posted by Phalynx

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.

This is why I mentioned the character limit

[6piston]

ooops i forgot to click "mark as installed"

so, did anyone experience the same thing on larger forums?

Originally Posted by 6piston

hi phalynx

thanks for the plugin. a real classic.
works like charm!

my only question is,
i've got 213156 threads to tag.

i ran maintenence and the thing is, it freezes at random numbers of posts. sometimes 1640 sometimes 12XXX posts. i've set the minium number of post tagging to 99999999999999 as well.

i also tried turning the board off but it still happens.

i understand that this could be a server issue too

but anyone out there with the same problem, please tell me what to do to get all posts tagged?

thanks!
Tom

[motowebmaster]

Thanks for this!

[Skavenger]

Everything works fine for me except one thing.
I ran "Delete Auto Tags" maintenance option, then "Auto Tag Threads" maintenance option and when I went to check tags, I found I have duplicated tags in a single thread.
Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks

[moveed]

Hi,

1. I want to rebuild tag clouds for title of all old threads.

2. Problem in Tag RSS Feeds : The product is working properly, but when the pressure on any word appear the following message ( Invalid {1} specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator ).

Best Regards,

[redlabour]

Bug?:

If i enter a Tag "wunsch" it makes it to "wünsch".

Using German-"Du"-Version of vBulletin.

[carlos54321]

installed thaks

[tfw2005]

Originally Posted by tfw2005

Second issue, Registered users can't post This for instance:

Thank you, Everyone.

It returns the error message:

The following errors occurred with your submission:
Tags cannot be overly common words (you).

How do I stop this from happening?

I actually had to disable the system due to this, it was causing half my members to not be able to post unless they manually added tags. I love the idea/system otherwise, so if someone could let me know what I am doing wrong setting wise, or address it via a fix, that would be great.

Thanks!

[Pocket Aces]

Originally Posted by Phalynx

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

"Mark as Installed" is given after installing the product. Same with Support. But I haven't installed your mod yet. My previous post is not asking for 'support', its a pre-install question.
If i find your mod useful then i'll hit that link and i'll even nominate it for MOTM like i did in my other mod installs. It would only took me 1 second to click those links anyway.