Integration with vBulletin - BoardTracker Advanced Topic Tags System - v2!

BoardTracker Thread Tags Mod - ***version 2.1***

This easy to install mod adds a complete thread tagging and tag search system to your board. Tags are displayed with the thread, similar to the tagging and tag search often used on blogs, and link to a tag search system on your board which is powered by boardtracker. (meaning no search load on your servers!)

Tag search and tag results are fully integrated with your board, similar to our other board search mods.

New in version 2.1:

Locally cached tagclouds updated by vb cron
Full css customization of tagclouds on any vb page
Restrict tagging to certain usergroups
Disallow tagging in specific forums
Tag posting uses the standard vb 'censorwords' to block posting of innappropriate words
Tag search uses the standard search 'badwords' list


Advanced tag search options include:

Search tags by user
Search tags by forum and related forums
Search by boardtracker category
Search tags on all boards in boardtracker (optional)
Restrict search by date range
Tag cloud and 'related tags' cloud on search results - fully customizable!
Mod_rewrite option for tag links
RSS feed for tag searches
Search tags on a single or multiple specific boards you define thereby allowing you to create traffic trading rings with other board owners or just within your own boards if you have more than one.
Many options to play with the in admin panel!

If your board is not yet indexed by BoardTracker, make sure to submit it!

Tags created are indexed and searchable on boardtracker search engine also and can appear in various boardtracker tag clouds bringing you more traffic!

Once you have the mod installed and your users have started tagging, you will be able to add tag clouds to any page on your board - just copy/paste the following onto any vb page..

<!-- Tag Cloud -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
        <td class="tcat">$vbphrase[bt_tag_cloud]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
        <td class="alt1" align="center">
        {$bt_cloud}
        </td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- End Tag Cloud -->

Or even easier, just paste the following line onto any vb page and wrap it in whatever html you like..

{$bt_cloud}

You can also add your tag cloud to any site with this simple bit of html/js.

You can see an example of the tag search on our demo forums (using tag results from another board just for example since there are no real threads/tags there)

Also see here the advanced tag search demo.

For support you can post here or on boardtracker support forums.

To upgrade from the last version just install the product in the usual way, upload the files and then go through the template edits as described in the included README file. There are additional template edits and also modified (simplified) edits to the previous versions template edits so you should remove the old ones and add these although the old ones will still work as long as the additional new edits are also done.

Make sure to activate the 'BT Tag Cloud Cache' sheduled task once everything else is done (scripts uploaded etc) - requires cURL which most people have already but if you dont have then just use the standard html/js version of the tagclouds and leave the scheduled task inactive.

Also there is a vb3.5 version here.



updates:
v2.1.3 - fix to forum/usergroup restriction process - reinstall the product file to upgrade.
v2.1.2 - fix to bt_cloud.php cron script so to upgrade you only need to upload that file to the vb cron directory.
v2.1.1 - minor fix to the font-size setting in tags_default.css so to upgrade you only need to upload that file.
v2.1 - added locally cached tag clouds with cron, usergroup and forum restrictions, censorwords filters, full css customization for tag clouds on any page.

v2.0.6 - fixed problem affecting tags on quickedit
v2.0.5 - added missing space in tag link
v2.0.4 - made search options link more clear and other small stuff
v2.0.2 - small fix in bt_topic_tags template for forum list
v2.0.1 - fixed small bug in bt_topic_tags template

[RedTyger]

Well I'm a coder and it's for a forum for my business site. So what I'd really like to do is remove the branding and then rewrite bits of it to suit myself. It's save me coding it myself, basically. I'd be ideal for any other site, I looked at the other tagging modifications and this one looks the best to me.

[BoardTracker]

As we said, the option will be branding free.
IN addition, you can recode/change parts of the mod as you like as well as modify the way the results are rendered.

What exactly would you like to change in the tagging mod?

[Chadi]

Just saw this. I have Zoints tag system installed and want to know what the differences are overall, aside your mod having the search function.

- can I somehow import the current tags from Zoints tag mod to yours?
- will this work in forumhome?

Thanks.

[kwblue]

Can you please get my board in the system?

I installed several weeks ago and submitted at the same time, but I still have default tags on my forum

I really need to get this working ASAP and am hoping you can 'speed up' the process for me. The forum is: http://www.affiliateguarddog.com/forums/

Thanks!

[Dark_Konoko]

Indeed it seems that you guys are taking an awful long time migrating to the new hardware and accepting new applications. I do know first-hand how much of nightmare it can be to tackle such a grandiose task, but is there any chance at all of an update regarding your current progress?

I've been haulting the launch of a forum I'm working on for this very system, as I know how users work - and It'll be much easier to bully them into using tags from the start rather than introducing them at a later date. I've been considering reverting my template modifications and using the Zoids tagging system - but I'll try and hold out on that little temptation as long as possible.

[kwblue]

I decided to uninstall. Not worth it until they are up and running properly. I will use Zoints.

[BoardTracker]

is there any chance at all of an update regarding your current progress?

The new boardtracker is progressing - main delay at the moment is simply spidering and indexing such a huge amount of data.. if we spider too fast it adds load to boards so we dont want to do that and if we spider too slow everyone gets impatient

For anyone using the bt search mod who wants to try the new system, you can do that now.. but bear in mind it should be considered BETA and not all data on your board will be indexed or up to date and not all boards submitted are yet included although at least twice as many boards are now in the new system and more will be added soon.

The way to try it is simply to edit the bt search results template and replace this..

http://www.boardtracker.com/search-v2.js

with this..

http://v2.boardtracker.com/search-v3.js

There are some additional changes you can make which enable access to many more search features however they will be announced later.

This has only been tested on boards in the search mod, not this tags mod but it uses the same search api so should work - if you have any problems let me know and again I must stress that this is beta and so there *might* be problems (hopefully nothing more than simply partial coverage) but these will be fixed and coverage is increasing daily - currently we index many millions of posts every day.

[BoardTracker]

This has only been tested on boards in the search mod, not this tags mod but it uses the same search api so should work

Regarding my previous post - this has now been tested with the tags mod and it does work so if you want to try using BT v2 tag search on your board then just change the url in the tag search results template as mentioned above.

[dtv100]

I have this on my forum but the only thing is I want to use this with vbgeek Gars and I cant find a way to make this work .

thanks for any help

[puertoblack2003]

i'm getting this error when the cron job is ran

BT Tag Cloud Cache

Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in xxxxx\xxxx\xxxxx\forums\includes\cron\bt_cloud.php on line 18