New Posting Features - Automatic tags

Description

With vBulletin tags you can either set to require tags be completed or not. However requiring tags to be completed can easily result in low-quality tags that don't provide SEO value to your forum. With that in mind the thread title often provides better keywords than the tags that the user is forced to enter.

What this modification does is:

When a thread is started, has the user filled in tags?
Yes: Then we do nothing.
No: Then take the thread title, and strip out all words that would be invalid tags and are in the stop words list and use the remaining words as tags.

Example

User enters:

• Thread title = We like the social group email mod
• Thread tags =

vBulletin records the new thread as:

• Thread title = We like the social group email mod
• Thread tags = email, group, social

Which isn't an entirely bad set of tags and is better than none, and better than the user typing in gibberish (IMHO).

Installing

Installation REQUIRES FILE MODIFICATION. If you are not happy doing this, don't install this mod.

In the file /includes/functions_newpost.php

Find (near line 409):

PHP Code:

if ($type == 'thread' AND $post['taglist'])
{ 


Replace that with:

PHP Code:

// HACK : START : AUTO TAG
//      if ($type == 'thread' AND $post['taglist'])
//      {
        if ($type == 'thread')
        {

                if (!$post['taglist']) {
                        $temptags = split(' ',$post['title']);
                        $newtags = array();
                        require(DIR . '/includes/searchwords.php');
                        foreach ($temptags as $tagtext) {
                                if (strlen($tagtext) <= 3 || in_array(strtolower($tagtext), $badwords)) {
                                        // Do nothing
                                } else {
                                        array_push($newtags,$tagtext);
                                }
                        }
                        $post['taglist'] = join(',',$newtags);
                }
// HACK : END : AUTO TAG 


Uninstalling

Open the file /includes/functions_newpost.php

Find:

PHP Code:

// HACK : START : AUTO TAG 


Delete everything up to:

PHP Code:

// HACK : END : AUTO TAG 


Insert in that space:

PHP Code:

if ($type == 'thread' AND $post['taglist'])
{ 


Screenshots

Screenshots don't really make sense... read the description.

License

You are free to modify, create derivatives, produce any version of this that you wish even for commercial use, just leave in the code an attribution credit that contains the Url to http://www.buro9.com/

Effectively it's this:

Title: Automatic tags by B?ro9 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.

[Zaiaku]

Well the reason I would like it added to all threads with r without tags is just as discribe in the first post. It may use better tags then the ones already listed. Of course it would be a 1 time run since you don't want it to keep trying to add tags to all the threads over and over again.

[M-Tuning]

Works like a charm!

Good work.

[MetalORock]

very great hack thanks

[GlitterKill]

I have to agree that adding a feature/option to have it go back and generate tags for old, untagged threads would be great!

[maxicep]

I seen some problems and i removed it for now.

Example:
forum, maxicep.com maxicepdsadasdasd, melodi, mobile, phone

U will get error that "need min 3 character in tags for open thread"

because tags are looking
forum, maxicep.com, maxicepdsadasdasd, me, lodi, mobile, phone

It has problem on some thread titles like which include "<" or ">" character also ","

Just try and see.

If i set to all limits to no limit on tag system options, than no problem but it isnt fine.

[Hornstar]

excellent mod. thanks very much for this, I will install it later this week.

[tpearl5]

This reminds me of a good ol vb 2.0 hack Nice and simple too!

Installed!

Edit: Need to exclude non-word characters For example, see the tags on this thread:
http://cellphoneforums.net/htc/t2758...-s710-vox.html

[paramegsoft]

welcome

very nice mod buro9

but please

how i can do it to some forums only

like forum id 4 and 5

and how i activate it in rss forums which get news from another sites

[abrecher]

Originally Posted by maxicep

I seen some problems and i removed it for now.

Example:
forum, maxicep.com maxicepdsadasdasd, melodi, mobile, phone

U will get error that "need min 3 character in tags for open thread"

because tags are looking
forum, maxicep.com, maxicepdsadasdasd, me, lodi, mobile, phone

It has problem on some thread titles like which include "<" or ">" character also ","

Just try and see.

If i set to all limits to no limit on tag system options, than no problem but it isnt fine.

This is EXACTLY what I've been waiting for! This user definitely is making a good point and I hope his issues will be addressed in future versions.

I also would LOVE to be able to run a script which would backdate this for all old threads.

[maxicep]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

This reminds me of a good ol vb 2.0 hack Nice and simple too!

Installed!

Edit: Need to exclude non-word characters For example, see the tags on this thread:
http://cellphoneforums.net/htc/t2758...-s710-vox.html

Tags are looking very bad.