Major Additions - Talkerbot V2.2.3 (AI Posting Bot)

Talker Bot Hack v2.5.0
Hack By: Tim (eXtremeTim) Yarbrough
Website: www.extremechatforums.com

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.

Whats new in 2.5.0?
Cleanup of the code to allow better support for php5 users.
Simplified the steps to get the bot working.
Improved the code in various spots.
Fixed sloppy coding issues that remained from the original version of the hack.

Whats new in 2.2.4?

Start of php 5 compatibility fixes
Query errors
ajax cosmetics issue (should be fixed now but if not please let me know)
quite a few minor random things.

Whats new in 2.2.3?

Fixed a few bugs (didnt fix the php 5.1 issues yet till i have time to make sure they dont have an undesired effect)
Added code to make bot show up online.
Made bot show up as last poster correctly.
Fixed table prefix issue

Whats new in 2.2.2?

Cleaned up code a bit.
Fixed <br> problem
Improved bots sanity
Fixed alot of stuff.

To Upgrade from 2.2.4:

Upload all files import the new product.

To upgrade from 2.2.3:

Reupload src folder from the alice dir, install the product file, and upload ewt_talkerbot.php.

To upgrade from 2.2.2:

Reupload the src folder from the alice dir and also re upload the ewt_talkerbot.php file. No changes were made to the product file.

To upgrade from 2.2.1:

Overwrite the current product
Overwrite ewt_talkerbot.php


To Upgrade From 2.2.0:

Overwrite the current product. Upload ewt_talkerbot.php


To Upgrade From A Previous Version:

Just follow the install steps in the files becuase yea there was no prior version for vb3.6 so you should have no file edits to redo.

This version is much cleaner overall then all the previous version. I have removed a good deal of the code in the core alice bot that used to cuase errors. I have moved all the control settings into the admincp. Plus many other things including a much cleaner ewt_talkerbot.php file then the original _talkerbot.php file.


About v3

Yes version 3 is being planned out yet again. I had it finished at one point only to lose it when my computer was stolen a while back. So now im planning even more stuff for version 3. I will post information about v3 later.


AIML File:

I need aiml files. If you know where to get them or have a bunch you can send me please contact me via pm on here so I can get the files. (Needing more for the base package and some to start playing with the aiml sharing features of v3 )


Demo: http://www.extremewebtech.com/forums...esting-grounds
User/Pass: test2323/test2323

[eXtremeTim]

Trouble shooting

If your bot doesnt reply in the forum.
1) check that you uploaded ewt_talkerbot.php to your forums dir
2) check the settings to make sure they are configured correctly
3) check to see if the bot responds at all http://domainname.com/pathtoforums/a...+is+your+name?

[kg4mxz]

Very Nice!

[eXtremeTim]

Thanks put alot of time into this port up cleaning up the actual ai bot code while I was at it to make it more stable under different configurations of linux and windows.

[Erwin]

I had it working in 3.5 and 3.6 but it was not compatible with PHP 5.1 - let's see how this goes.

[eXtremeTim]

If somebody has a server with php 5.1 installed on it that I can work on the core bot engine on. I will be more then happy to work on php 5.1 compatibility issues. I am already planning a complete and more extensive rewrite of the core ai engine then what I have already done to it.

[Oddjob]

Anyone got a live demo of this?

[eXtremeTim]

Testing The Bot:
http://extremewebtech.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=13
user: tester
pw: 123test

[eNforce]

Demo: http://www.areyouserios.com/showthread.php?t=265

Also in this thread you can see the bot is responding too quickly, it quoted and posted before my reply even registered lol... Any way to have a delay in it's reply, like at least 1 minute?

[eXtremeTim]

It shouldnt run till after the other post is done being processed. Also i noticed it doesnt like replying when a quest posts so ill look into that issue.

Added a demo account to my post above that has the demo url.

I see that issue the one time. Let me know if it happens again and ill start looking for a way to delay him. I never looked at how to make a post using the datamanager that has a delay in time.

I will release an update shortly that fixes the bot and replying to guests.