I'd like to request a keyboard-based related threads hack. My site is primarily a comic book news site, and what I'd find very useful is a hack that would allow you to enter keywords when posting a new thread in a forum designated as a news forum.
Then, on viewing that thread, the system would search the first post of other threads in designated news forums for the keywords then display a shortlist of related threads (an admin-editable number) directly under the first post.
Is there anyone that would be willing to write such a hack, please?
I've tried that one, but it's matching is based on the contents of the post, rather than specific keywords. As such, some of its similar threads aren't all that similar!
I wrote something similar to what you're looking for about a year ago. It's a separate script that returns threads based on some given keywords. My purpose was to display a related threads listing with articles on NissanPerformanceMag.com. It's like the "similar threads" hack but searches the message bodies using keywords. It's not what you're looking for, but it may help.
03-23-2003, 12:40 PM
Keyword-based related threads hack
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