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.

[HaYLaZ]

I accepted this modification but I took error;

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $end in C:\AppServ\www\vbulletin\includes\functions_newpos t.php on line 1730

[CThiessen]

Hi,
pretty good idea. Do you think it might be possible in the future to check against an own positive List?
I think I do have about 100 Tags with the Main Words that Guest are looking for.

Christian

[buro9]

Originally Posted by HaYLaZ

I accepted this modification but I took error;

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $end in C:\AppServ\www\vbulletin\includes\functions_newpos t.php on line 1730

The bit of code to be modified is around line 410.

Line 1730 is the very end of the file. It would suggest that there is a problem with the file that you have edited... check the code in the file that it ends with "?>".

I applied this hack to a file with no other modifications, and it does not create an error.

[buro9]

Originally Posted by CThiessen

Hi,
pretty good idea. Do you think it might be possible in the future to check against an own positive List?
I think I do have about 100 Tags with the Main Words that Guest are looking for.

Christian

I don't see why not. This is why I allow derivative works... if you have a feature that you want implemented, go ahead and implement it

[buro9]

Actually... on the parse error... double check the number of brackets, the installation advice originally missed one, but it's now corrected.

[CThiessen]

Originally Posted by buro9

if you have a feature that you want implemented, go ahead and implement it

I can?t do that, I do not have the knowledge. Only Ideas.
next Step than is to Change words.
If somebody is writing:

• American Airlines
• Lufthansa
• Delta Airlines

Change it in:

• Fligth

or that ever to meet our special Keywords.
Christian

PS: I will install but in the Moment I can?t use FTP from here.

[7lanet]

Thanks ^_^
very good

[buro9]

It should work with arabic too if tags work with arabic. You can change the code to fit your needs if you feel it's not suited for you

[7lanet]

Can I make it too in reply