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

[Captain Tycoon]

An awesome modification! Marked as Installed!

[Spinball]

I noticed that in th example page given, the word Problem was huge. Can common unhelpful words like problem, help, fault, which, what, where, who, why be excluded via an excluded word box, maybe?

[theOZer]

Adding "auto-tagging of thread prefixes" would cap off this mod.
Downloaded and Installed. thx.

[Phalynx]

Originally Posted by Britmovie

Exclude Search Words?
Is it best to set to yes or no? Little confused on this one?

Set it to yes.

Originally Posted by tfw2005

I had an issue, not sure what if anything can be done.

Had the default vbulletin max tags by thread starter at 5, and user at 2.

When the auto tagger ran on long thread titles by Registerd Users, it tried to insert 10,15 words, etc.

They kept getting "thread tags were exceeded by X amount" error messages.

Pissing people off, because they don't even know its happening, or what to do to fix it.

Any way we can get a work around saying "if auto-tagger, allow unlimited tags -> else use tagging default"

My temp work around is allowing a super-high amount of tags for thread starter.

Will be improved in next version.

Originally Posted by tfw2005

Second issue, Registered users can't post This for instance:

Thank you, Everyone.

It returns the error message:

The following errors occurred with your submission:
Tags cannot be overly common words (you).

How do I stop this from happening?

Exclude Search Words

Originally Posted by Skavenger

Everything works fine for me except one thing.
I ran "Delete Auto Tags" maintenance option, then "Auto Tag Threads" maintenance option and when I went to check tags, I found I have duplicated tags in a single thread.
Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks

Already known, open issue.

Originally Posted by moveed

Hi,

1. I want to rebuild tag clouds for title of all old threads.

2. Problem in Tag RSS Feeds : The product is working properly, but when the pressure on any word appear the following message ( Invalid {1} specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator ).

Best Regards,

Cannot confirm that.

[Phalynx]

Originally Posted by redlabour

Bug?:

If i enter a Tag "wunsch" it makes it to "w?nsch".

Using German-"Du"-Version of vBulletin.

Strange behaviour. What is the content of your filter?

Originally Posted by Pocket Aces

"Mark as Installed" is given after installing the product. Same with Support. But I haven't installed your mod yet. My previous post is not asking for 'support', its a pre-install question.
If i find your mod useful then i'll hit that link and i'll even nominate it for MOTM like i did in my other mod installs. It would only took me 1 second to click those links anyway.

It sounded like a question regarding after installation. I don't want to be rude, but many people just forget to click install.
As for your question: Thread update does not work in the current version, but is on my to do list.

Originally Posted by Spinball

I noticed that in th example page given, the word Problem was huge. Can common unhelpful words like problem, help, fault, which, what, where, who, why be excluded via an excluded word box, maybe?

Auto Thread Tagger is obeying vBulletin exclusion (badword-) list and has also it's own.

[madmax1228]

Testing on one forum

[Neal-UK]

Excellent mod and just what I was looking for. Nominated for MOTM.

Does it work fine for sites running vBSEO - www.vbseo.com ?

[unitedpunjab]

Originally Posted by Neal-UK

Excellent mod and just what I was looking for. Nominated for MOTM.

Does it work fine for sites running vBSEO - www.vbseo.com ?

Yes,, no problem so far.

[MadK]

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

[Charlie98902]

Originally Posted by MadK

For some reason, when I run the maintenance tool, no tags are added.

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