Major Additions - Talker Bot v2.0.2

I will try and support this hack here. For better support use the link I have provided below:
http://www.extremescripts.com/forums/index.php


Version 3.0 is finaly being made. Please go to the link above and put in your feedback on what you would like to see added.

Talker Bot Hack v2.0.2
Hack By: Tim (eXtremeTim) Yarbrough
Website: www.extremechatforums.com
Original: by: C-birch
Credits: Rapid Gaming (for porting it to vb3)

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. I will also be seeing about porting over the teachbot soon.

Some New Features
acp controlled Rate Of Post
ability to post as bot and he will not reply
post count will not go up in forums where post counts are turned off
a few options to turn off and on a few things including the script itself.
Some other stuff i just cant remember

Fixed in 2.0.2:
Go advanced feature works for quick reply.
Bot will no longer reply when post is stopped becuase of an error. (aka floodlimit, to many images, ect)

Fixed in 2.0.1:
Fixed a few minor problems including using the wrong variable in the if statement for the random smilie check.
fixed the install.txt problem used a find code that was from one of my modifications sorry about that.

Upgrading From v2.0.1 Instructions:
These are in the v202 upgrade file

Upgrading From v2.0.0 Instructions:
To upgrade from v2.0 just make your changes to the new _talkerbot.php file and replace the old v2.0 one.


Upgrading From v1 Instructions:
Just use the install.txt and do the forum.php in the acp directory edits.
Add the new phrase and run the query.


Todo List:
Move all settings to acp settings page
fix the floodcheck problem of bot still replying when users post is not made.
Clean up the code more
Figure out more stuff todo.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Support for this hack has returned. I will try to give support in this thread. Priority support will be given Here

Just a note I will be starting work on a new version possible as soon as tonight.

If you like this modification please donate to help support the developement process on it.

[kylek]

How does one go about not having him/her say "seeker" when someone asks his/her name? as in - your name is kyle seeker.
I checked out bot in the database but didn't see anything to do with seeker.

[eXtremeTim]

I will be porting this up to vb 3.5 and resuming work on it. I hope to get it ported up in the next couple of days.

[Butters]

Originally Posted by eXtremeTim

I will be porting this up to vb 3.5

Thank you !



He's my top poster :laugh:

[eXtremeTim]

lol

Isnt it kinda sad when you rely on a bot to be your top poster?

[yoyoyoyo]

Originally Posted by Jaxx

That's what it is complaining about though.

[2005-06-04 15:04:42]: error: directory is writable by others: (/..../forums/alice/src)

[Sat Jun 4 21:56:38 2005] [error] [client 66.29.13.68] Premature end of script headers: /..../forums/alice/src/talk.php

I'm also seeing this after a post is done:

Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.ahazi.org/forums/alice/sr...%27s+down%21): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error in /_talkerbot.php on line 82

I am getting the same error when attempting to run botloader.php fpr the first time (a 500 error, and then the statement that "error: directory is writable by others") - is there a fix?

[eXtremeTim]

Im not really planning to do much more if anything else with the 2.x version of this hack. I will be working on version 3 of this hack for vb 3.5 tommorrow.

[yoyoyoyo]

Originally Posted by eXtremeTim

Im not really planning to do much more if anything else with the 2.x version of this hack. I will be working on version 3 of this hack for vb 3.5 tommorrow.

Thanks- I am looking forward to checking out vb 3.5 once it is past the beta stage. The above error happened with VB version 3.0.5. Is there anyway I can execute the commands from botloader.php when installing without getting that error? Has anyone else who received the error 500 ""error: directory is writable by others"" been able to install this successfully? What could be the cause of this error, since this hack requires that directory to be chmod'ed to 777?

[eXtremeTim]

It would be security on your server preventing access to the dir since it is writable.

[eXtremeTim]

I have some rough code for the talkerbot working on my site right now. You can feel free to drop by and test him out so far.

http://www.extremescripts.com/forums...splay.php?f=75

[eXtremeTim]

The integration core code has now been redone. He is now making use of the new vbulletin 3.5 datamanger. I will be working on acp control in a bit then after that comes even more nice stuff.

[Sleepyk]

how about a talker bot to go in online chats and advertise

[anonimouse]

Originally Posted by ambumann

We suddenly started getting this error message when posting (each post):

yea i just set mine up and im getting the same thing. anyone else have this problem or know what to do?

Warning: file_get_contents(): URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /_talkerbot.php on line 82

Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.mysite.com/forums/alice/s...&input=testing): failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /_talkerbot.php on line 82

(note the stuff in italics was edited for this post)

[yoyoyoyo]

Originally Posted by eXtremeTim

It would be security on your server preventing access to the dir since it is writable.

I changed it to from 777 to 755 and it works fine

[anonimouse]

about a month an no answer? does anyone have any ideas? seems like i'm missing somthing simple but i just cant figure it out.

[Edwin]

Originally Posted by lsmba

I've read alot of posts...the kack sounds great, but, I get the feeling that it is riddled with bugs and major errors...is that true or is it stable?


Thanks

The hack is great and when I had it working it seemed to be stable and work fine.

But for some reason, it just stopped working one day and no matter how many times I reinstall it, I can't get it working again. The original creator did say he was working on a new version, which I'm hoping will be more reliable.