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

[Si?uNoopy]

Don't work with post in RSS

Can you help me make tag for post via RSS

[Diehardshorty]

Thanks for this works great.

Is there anyway to make it so when the Auto Tagger runs it does not post in the shoutbox?

[glennybee]

Just thought I'd add that this product causes the 'Rebuild Thread Information' function to break. I'm running vb 3.8.2. If I disable this product/plugins, the function works fine.

[jrap]

This is a great mod. Thanks!

[qubed]

i also have the problem that it does not allow me to merge 2 threads into one. when i attempt to do this my site just hangs and the action is never completed. however, when i turned the plugin off, it works fine.

any idea of what is causing this and what i must do? love the plugin, but hate not being able to use it because of not being able to merge threads/discussions.

[jason_rickard]

Originally Posted by Si?uNoopy

Don't work with post in RSS

Can you help me make tag for post via RSS

Can anyone confirm this? I see its been asked 4 or 5 times but no acknowledgment.

Just want to know if it doesn't exist or if mine isn't working. Either way is fine - Just want to know.

[Videx]

Originally Posted by glennybee

Just thought I'd add that this product causes the 'Rebuild Thread Information' function to break. I'm running vb 3.8.2. If I disable this product/plugins, the function works fine.

I just ran into this and it looked like a memory error. Possibly not an autotagger error at all. I just lowered the thread count and it ran fine.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 35 bytes) in /home/s/public_html/forum/includes/functions_autotagger.php on line 415

[Ombra]

Is it possible for this plugin to only add tags if they are already on my tag list? I see there is an option to remove custom tags, but I don't want them added in the first place. There are specific tags I would like to use and having hundreds of tags to sift through makes this system difficult to maintain. I want my tag system to archive threads with specific topics I select rather than something comprehensive that ensures there is a tag on every thread ever made on the forum.

Originally Posted by qubed

i also have the problem that it does not allow me to merge 2 threads into one. when i attempt to do this my site just hangs and the action is never completed. however, when i turned the plugin off, it works fine.

any idea of what is causing this and what i must do? love the plugin, but hate not being able to use it because of not being able to merge threads/discussions.

I just tested thread merging on my forum and I'm not having any problems with it. I'm using version 3.8.2. Sorry this doesn't answer your question, but I wanted to inform others that this problem isn't necessarily universal with this plugin in case they were hesitant to try the plugin over this. Hopefully someone else with more knowledge than me can provide a solution for you.

[hambil]

There seems to be something not quite right with the exclude usernames option. I have it set to yes, but I still see a lot of usernames being auto-tagged.

In addition, if the tag list gets too long the thread crashes, especially when attempting moderator actions. The cause appears to be a timeout in the autotagger (> 30 secs response time).

I am looking into both issues to see what I can find and how much if any might be the fault of my site, but just thought I would mention them here, as I have only recently run into a thread big enough to cause these problems.

I believe what happened was a lot of small threads got merged, and each small thread brought with it tags, and the posts all have titles (converted from the original thread title).

I wonder if you used the 're:' option for posts it would cause a similar issue.

Anyway, more as I learn more.

[glennybee]

Originally Posted by Videx

I just ran into this and it looked like a memory error. Possibly not an autotagger error at all. I just lowered the thread count and it ran fine.

I tried lowering the thread count and it made no difference. I also increased the memory allocation for PHP and MySQL to 128MB and it still failed.

As soon as I disabled this plugin it worked fine.