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

[bashy]

Nice 1, thi would be a great added bonus...
It might wake up some of the members

Originally Posted by eXtremeTim

I is theoretically possible for me to make it so it can create threads every so often via some random timing and a cron script. Not exactly sure how I would go about doing that but I will definately look into it.

[Meta]

Hm ... works almost fine now. But there's another funny problem ... and it's hard to explain. Hubert (the Name of the bot) doubles his posts. Example:


me: Hallo

he: (something)

me: Hallo again


Result:

me: Hallo

he: (something)

he: (same something)

me: Hallo again

he: (something new)

Update: It only happens (the doubling of posts), if the same user talks again to Hubert. If another user talks to Hubert it works fine. But if the same user "answers" to Hubert, he will double his "pre-post".


Another strange thing: If Hubert answers, of course he is at least for a moment the last poster in the thread. On the searchresult-page (getnew/getdaily) it shows up correct Hubert as the last poster. But on the frontside-overview it shows the last human poster.

In fact i like it much more this way ... with the last human poster shown on frontside. But it looks a little bit inconsistant.

But this is a small problem. The double-post-problem hurts more.

[Meta]

Another update: The double-post problem is not a real problem. It's virtual. It only happens when the same user answers again and uses the quick-reply-window.

But when the user refreshes the page the doubled post disappears and everything looks fine. It's just a little bit irritating.

[Meta]

(Voted this hack as hack of the month. Just because there is no "hack of the year"-Link.)

[P.Jackson]

it doesnt seem to be making the database on mine? yet the loader is working but i get this

DONE LOADING
Inserted 0 categories into database

but no database etc any ideaS?

[unitedpunjab]

Originally Posted by P.Jackson

it doesnt seem to be making the database on mine? yet the loader is working but i get this


DONE LOADING
Inserted 0 categories into database

but no database etc any ideaS?

Same Problem here,tried again and again
BTW i am on shared hosting (timeouts or something ???)

[Nathan_R]

Oops, apparently uploading ewt_talkerbot.php does help. My problems are gone now, as well.

eXtremeTim, you might want to include that in the installation guide.

[dilbert]

This looks like a lot of fun.
I am at the point of installing the data and get this error:

Loading startup.xml

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in D:\inetpub\bloodbanktalk\forum\alice\src\admin\bot loaderfuncs.php on line 305


Is this a host issue, and if so, am I stuck?

[unitedpunjab]

it is impossible to populate the database on a shared hosting

[dilbert]

Originally Posted by unitedpunjab

it is impossible to populate the database on a shared hosting

Ugh

Impossible, or difficult?
Instead of running everything at the same time, can I do a few at a time?