Major Additions - Talker Bot v2.0.2

I will try and support this hack here. For better support use the link I have provided below:
http://www.extremescripts.com/forums/index.php


Version 3.0 is finaly being made. Please go to the link above and put in your feedback on what you would like to see added.

Talker Bot Hack v2.0.2
Hack By: Tim (eXtremeTim) Yarbrough
Website: www.extremechatforums.com
Original: by: C-birch
Credits: Rapid Gaming (for porting it to vb3)

What This Hack Does.

This hack add a userlike bot to your forums. You can set which forum he will post in and how often he will reply to poeples posts. He will try and build his replies off the text that they posted. This bot will learn overtime slowly from your users posts. I will also be seeing about porting over the teachbot soon.

Some New Features
acp controlled Rate Of Post
ability to post as bot and he will not reply
post count will not go up in forums where post counts are turned off
a few options to turn off and on a few things including the script itself.
Some other stuff i just cant remember

Fixed in 2.0.2:
Go advanced feature works for quick reply.
Bot will no longer reply when post is stopped becuase of an error. (aka floodlimit, to many images, ect)

Fixed in 2.0.1:
Fixed a few minor problems including using the wrong variable in the if statement for the random smilie check.
fixed the install.txt problem used a find code that was from one of my modifications sorry about that.

Upgrading From v2.0.1 Instructions:
These are in the v202 upgrade file

Upgrading From v2.0.0 Instructions:
To upgrade from v2.0 just make your changes to the new _talkerbot.php file and replace the old v2.0 one.


Upgrading From v1 Instructions:
Just use the install.txt and do the forum.php in the acp directory edits.
Add the new phrase and run the query.


Todo List:
Move all settings to acp settings page
fix the floodcheck problem of bot still replying when users post is not made.
Clean up the code more
Figure out more stuff todo.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Support for this hack has returned. I will try to give support in this thread. Priority support will be given Here

Just a note I will be starting work on a new version possible as soon as tonight.

If you like this modification please donate to help support the developement process on it.

[Paprika]

Originally Posted by MikeBlah

hey paprika,

thanks! that does help. a lot.

have you used it? i've seen it on a couple of sites, looks a little hacky, but i'm trying to make sure my pages are updated so they look recent for the search engines.

is there something else i can do that you know of?

I'm sorry, what do you mean by hacky??

[MikeBlah]

oh, i just meant that in the forums i checked out, the users were making fun of the grammer, etc of the bot.

that's not an issue for me though. has it been working on your site?

[Paprika]

Originally Posted by MikeBlah

oh, i just meant that in the forums i checked out, the users were making fun of the grammer, etc of the bot.

that's not an issue for me though. has it been working on your site?

Yeah it worked back when I was able to use it, but i've upgraded since then and it's no longer compatible.


People, I'm thinking that if there is an actively maintained-working BOT add-on for phpBB or some other board, we can ask the author can we all work together to port it over to vBulletin 3.5.x

Then we can open up like a.. umm.. sourceforge site or another one of those collaberative programming project sites and go from there each in our spare time.

[cmwg]

Fatal error: Field mimicbotrop is not defined in $validfields in class vb_datamanager_forum in /includes/class_dm.php on line 485

can somebody help me with this error?

[cmwg]

further...

Login to phpmyadmin and check in the 'bots' table that the bot id is 0
you find that the table 'bot's the id number in there needs editing to 0 from 1 in some cases

the bots table is empty?!? ... what should be in it?

[nelto]

that measn that ht ID of the bot should be 1 instead of 0. You need to check that out.
Now one other thing. Is this working with vb 3.5.4?

[nitro]

Word to all that say they have read the thread and are PM'ing me to share my modified source of talkerbot to work in 3.5. You obviously have not read the thread, or any links in my posts else you would know to share this source of someone elses hack would be unethical, illegal and against vbulletin.org's rules.

I did also mention coders only could contact me via pm as the only way to release a new working 3.5 link to the alice bot for posting (which is what this mainly consists of) so we can make a complete rewrite and release it properly as an open project.

Last word, if your not listed as a coder here do not PM me to discuss a rewrite, any members regardless of status purely asking for my modified source will be reported to vbulletin.org staff.

[eXtremeTim]

Releasing a port up of this today. Hopefully will get v3 out in 1-2 weeks from now.

[Bubble #5]

This is the best news I've heard all week!

...oh wait a minute, it's only Sunday :laugh:

Well it's still great news, and a much welcomed hack

[eXtremeTim]

Yea this is long over due. I just wish I still had the code for v3 laying around to release it. v3 was amazing for the short period of time i had it made before my pc got stolen.