New Posting Features - Automatic Thread Tagger for vB4.x

Automatic Thread Tagger
This is the vB4 conversation of the original by Phalynx (with permission)

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
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.

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

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Text are taken from the original thread:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=201156

Thanks to Phalynx

[rootsxrocks]

How do I merge or delete tags in mass ?

[OldSchoolDSL]

You currently have this modification tagged.

[rootsxrocks]

What I mean is this picked up the word SAN in all the football games and its all alone and large in the cloud, It seems like I was able to merge tags in the past but I forgot were to do it.

also it just picked up a phrase that I had not set the tags that were created were

• christmas
• so what does your cracker
• tree

The title was So what does your "Cracker Christmas Tree Look Like?

Also if I run the cron 500 at a time can it find my archives beyond the last 500 and do them over time or will it always look at the last 500 post ?

[LLent]

does this have a select all option so that we may delete tags instead of checking each box...

[rootsxrocks]

not that I have found

[sticky]

Would like to install this but is there any way to clear all my old tags all at once?

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Another question ....

We do have RSS feeds ...

The settings option says:



I can't seem to find anywhere here what I need to change where to have this work?

Thanks ...

Regards,
Doug

Anyone able to help with this?

Thanks ..

Regards,
Doug

[OldSchoolDSL]

Originally Posted by zelnik

EDIT: Seems to be a conflict with VBSEO is there any chance you could look into this since vbseo is a very popular package?

I'm waiting for a fix on this

[mavigul]

installed

[linuxututs]

Would love to install also, but will wait on a fix for the conflict with VBSEO...

Thanks,