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

[MadK]

Originally Posted by Charlie98902

So I take it you went through all your threads on your forum and noticed this?

I have added a tag cloud on the forumhome page, and have noticed no new tags. And this is not a mistake, as I've had 37 tags before the auto thread tagger, and still 37 after the maintenance.

I have also made a new thread in my so-called, "Spam Zone", and no tags were added when I ran the maintenance tool, either.

I have also checked several other threads which had no tags whatsoever, and none were added.

[Neal-UK]

Originally Posted by Charlie98902

So I take it you went through all your threads on your forum and noticed this?

I've just noticed this issue also. I've installed the plugin, checked settings and turned on. Is there anything else I need to do?

EDIT: Just found the options in the Update Counters area of the admin control panel. Working fine.

[MadK]

Something must be wrong.... I have done that maintenance more than once!

[Sofia]

Hi Phalynx

Thanks a lot for your hack. Very good job

However, I've a little problem:

My "Use Smart Quotes?" option is enabled.
But when I submit a thread title like this: Phalynx is a "good coder", tags are : Phalynx, good, coder. each word is a tag...

Any idea?

Thank you.

[TsirhCitna]

Mine stopped auto tagging when I upgraded to 1.01.

[roddy]

This is slightly obscure, but relevant to a number of languages probably. How does this mod handle say, Chinese, where there aren't any spaces. Will it ignore that stretch of language, or just add the Chinese as one chunk? I'd love to run this mod, but I suspect it won't handle titles like

一个生活小常识，要看！(此现象称为� ��沸)（转贴）

very well. Only a portion of my topic titles have Chinese, or are all in Chinese, but there are enough of them to cause problems if the mod doesn't handle them right - I'd be happy to have the Chinese ignored, that's about as much as I can hope for.

[Spinball]

How would this mod work with 600,000 threads? Would it cripple the server to auto tag all threads?

[Phalynx]

Originally Posted by MadK

For some reason, when I run the maintenance tool, no tags are added. I have ran both maintenance tools. (Delete, then Add)

Are you using special tag separators?
Which vBulletin version are you using? 3.7.1 or earlier?

Originally Posted by Sofia

My "Use Smart Quotes?" option is enabled.
But when I submit a thread title like this: Phalynx is a "good coder", tags are : Phalynx, good, coder. each word is a tag...

Confirmed, fixed in next version.

Originally Posted by roddy

This is slightly obscure, but relevant to a number of languages probably. How does this mod handle say, Chinese, where there aren't any spaces. Will it ignore that stretch of language, or just add the Chinese as one chunk? I'd love to run this mod, but I suspect it won't handle titles like

very well. Only a portion of my topic titles have Chinese, or are all in Chinese, but there are enough of them to cause problems if the mod doesn't handle them right - I'd be happy to have the Chinese ignored, that's about as much as I can hope for.

It cannot handle this correct, sorry.

Originally Posted by Spinball

How would this mod work with 600,000 threads? Would it cripple the server to auto tag all threads?

It's like you would reindex your thread informations.

[roddy]

Ok, thanks for the response. Even the ability to ignore non-English text would be good, but I know it can be problematic.

[MadK]

Originally Posted by Phalynx

Are you using special tag separators?
Which vBulletin version are you using? 3.7.1 or earlier?


Confirmed, fixed in next version.


It cannot handle this correct, sorry.


It's like you would reindex your thread informations.

3.7.2 PL1, and no. I am using commas.

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