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

[Kwikms]

Nice mod. Could you please include in the manual how to delete all the auto tagged tags?

[ChopSuey]

Originally Posted by Kwikms

Nice mod. Could you please include in the manual how to delete all the auto tagged tags?

In the Maintenance > Update counters

scroll all the way to the bottom

[Super-six]

Excellent. Installed.
Came here for excluded words list and see you already posted this
resource. A mark of professionalism. Thanks.

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/showp...&postcount=380

Fairly exhaustive list found here:
http://armandbrahaj.blog.al/2009/04/...sh-stop-words/

[MjrNuT]

This mod seems to not do auto tag for threads that are polls. Is that right or do I have something misconfigured?

Thanks

[MjrNuT]

Hmm, I see that this mod is no longer supported.

I have not had any issues with this mod until the last couple of weeks. I believe there may be a conflict with the Usertagging mod, since that is the only addition/change and related to the auto tagger not TAGGING.

I just ran the Maintenance after rechecking all settings, to perform Auto Tag on all threads. New threads and polls....did not get auto tagged.

Anyone else experience this, confirm, deny, or provide alternative auto thread tagger?

Thanks!!

[final kaoss]

I'd like to see this for vbulletin 4.x, thanks.

[mholtum]

I just installed this and it went smooth.. However I have been searching in ACP -> vBulletin Options -> for Automatic Thread Tagger and I can not find it anywhere. Am I missing something??

[FreshFroot]

Originally Posted by MjrNuT

Hmm, I see that this mod is no longer supported.

I have not had any issues with this mod until the last couple of weeks. I believe there may be a conflict with the Usertagging mod, since that is the only addition/change and related to the auto tagger not TAGGING.

I just ran the Maintenance after rechecking all settings, to perform Auto Tag on all threads. New threads and polls....did not get auto tagged.

Anyone else experience this, confirm, deny, or provide alternative auto thread tagger?

Thanks!!

If it is creating a conflict, then tell DBTECH. They can fix it on their mod so that it won't cause a conflict!

[MrD]

Hi,
VB 4 Version found here.
thx for Phalynx to allow recode and to Coroner for Coding.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=255251

[cuco2000]

I have this problem...

When i use this:

áéíóú

the auto tagger give me:

áéÃ+óú,

at the time of send the post, receiving an error that I can not use words not allowed

Is for spanish lang...