New Posting Features - Automatic Thread Tagger for vB3.8

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

[dadoc]

with the default setting for tags you can set the amount of tags that can be used for one thread.
I have this set, but I keep getting tags added to threads after someone makes a reply post automatically.

Is there a way to set a limit of tags, or
can I make it so that tags are not added automatically for replies?

I also have a question above about ajax? as I am not sure what it does when I have it activated?

Thanks

[SH3A3-Q]

Thank you so much

[rmxs]

Hello,
can someone please tell me how can i make replacement for a greek letter at the end of the word?
greek at the end of the words take final s (ς) at the middle take (σ) how can i make all the thread that have word that finish with (ς) be (ς) at tag and no (σ)??

[Arkham]

Here a neat idea:

How about allowing a configuration to define a specific pattern for the tags, and define a start and/or end string that would take the middle text as the actual tag.

Options:

- Tag all before <string> -- eg: ","

- Tag all after <string> -- eg. "by"

- Tag all between <string1> <string2> -- eg: "[" and "]"

So that using the above examples, a thread title such as "Book Title, by Author Name [Category]" you could theoretically have "Book Title", "Author Name", and "Category" as 3 separate tags instead of Author, Book, Category, Name, and Title.

I think this would be a powerful addition to an already terrific mod.

[rmxs]

Hello why this replacements doesnt work??
'σ '=>'ς'
'Σ '=>'ς'

I wont all the last Σ and σ become ς
byt no lack..

[shervin_dvb]

this mod problem with Internet Explorer Ver8 EnabelAjax
Show Error in the box tag when new post

[paul41598]

Can this be modifed so it replaces tags based on hyperlinks?

[BiZiMDiYaR]

Hi,

If I have vbseo... is it good to have this or not needed ?

Thanks.

[MindStar]

Hi, nice MOD

Would you consider changing the Auto-Tagging preferences so that the Auto-Tagger defaults to not auto-tagging every forum?

We have a lot of forums on our board and would rather focus auto-tagging on a couple of key forums that are directly related to the forum, rather than including all the other incidental chat / support forums.

I've hacked my copy of your code to change the excluded_forums to be interpreted as included_forums; forums are not auto-tagged by default, you have to list them in "excluded forums" to have the auto-tagger active in them.

In functions_autotagger.php, edit line 163 to read

    if (in_array($thread['forumid'], $excludedForums) && !in_array($thread['postuserid'], $excludedUsers))

i.e. remove the ! from if (!in_array

[optrex]

A great little mod that works well once its configured - thanks