New Posting Features - Automatic tags

Description

With vBulletin tags you can either set to require tags be completed or not. However requiring tags to be completed can easily result in low-quality tags that don't provide SEO value to your forum. With that in mind the thread title often provides better keywords than the tags that the user is forced to enter.

What this modification does is:

When a thread is started, has the user filled in tags?
Yes: Then we do nothing.
No: Then take the thread title, and strip out all words that would be invalid tags and are in the stop words list and use the remaining words as tags.

Example

User enters:

• Thread title = We like the social group email mod
• Thread tags =

vBulletin records the new thread as:

• Thread title = We like the social group email mod
• Thread tags = email, group, social

Which isn't an entirely bad set of tags and is better than none, and better than the user typing in gibberish (IMHO).

Installing

Installation REQUIRES FILE MODIFICATION. If you are not happy doing this, don't install this mod.

In the file /includes/functions_newpost.php

Find (near line 409):

PHP Code:

if ($type == 'thread' AND $post['taglist'])
{ 


Replace that with:

PHP Code:

// HACK : START : AUTO TAG
//      if ($type == 'thread' AND $post['taglist'])
//      {
        if ($type == 'thread')
        {

                if (!$post['taglist']) {
                        $temptags = split(' ',$post['title']);
                        $newtags = array();
                        require(DIR . '/includes/searchwords.php');
                        foreach ($temptags as $tagtext) {
                                if (strlen($tagtext) <= 3 || in_array(strtolower($tagtext), $badwords)) {
                                        // Do nothing
                                } else {
                                        array_push($newtags,$tagtext);
                                }
                        }
                        $post['taglist'] = join(',',$newtags);
                }
// HACK : END : AUTO TAG 


Uninstalling

Open the file /includes/functions_newpost.php

Find:

PHP Code:

// HACK : START : AUTO TAG 


Delete everything up to:

PHP Code:

// HACK : END : AUTO TAG 


Insert in that space:

PHP Code:

if ($type == 'thread' AND $post['taglist'])
{ 


Screenshots

Screenshots don't really make sense... read the description.

License

You are free to modify, create derivatives, produce any version of this that you wish even for commercial use, just leave in the code an attribution credit that contains the Url to http://www.buro9.com/

Effectively it's this:

Title: Automatic tags by B?ro9 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.

[peterska2]

nice one! I've been keeping an eye out for something like this.

/me tags thread to download and install later

[masterross]

@buro9

mate do u familiar with AJAX?
I think will be better if it's AJAX based hack which takes the words from thread title immediately after we left the title field and put the suggestion in tags field.
So users will have possibility to edit unwanted tags.

[DubaiHost]

Perfect Idea .. !
Installed

[wtrk]

good idea. tagged for when i update to 3.7.0. thanks!

[jim6763nva]

Thank you for this - works great!

Jim

[Newfarm]

masterross's idea is actually very, very cool.

That being said, installed and crossing fingers for some fancy ajax implementation

[TruthElixirX]

I have a weird question.

If I have tags off, will this still auto add them in the background, so to speak?

We're wanting to wait a bit to enable tags, but when we do, would this modification have been working in the background?

EDIT::

Found a work around for this. Thanks for the hack!

[DestekForumu]

thank you

[jim6763nva]

How difficult would it be to do this for RSS posts?

[xorex]

nice !! Ingeniously.....

coder genius