TalkerBot Add-on - Learning System

TalkerBot Add-on - Learning System - Working Beta for VB3 RC2

This modification is an addition to the Talkerbot Hack by C.Birch, Rapid Gaming, eXtremeTim
and a rendition of the ideas presented by Martin64 in the Teachbot hack for vb2.x

This hack will not effect the code of the original Talkbot hack and works in a side-car fashion.

Talkerbots and variants:
VB2:
C. birch https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=48053
VB3:
Rapid Gaming https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...t=60013&page=1
Extremetim https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=60329

Teachbot for Vb2
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...light=teachbot

And based around Program E.
Copyright 2002, Paul Rydell
Portions by Jay Myers

Program E is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.



A major shout out to whoever wrote the Branch on Count functions, the guy who invented the internet and my mom of course... Wouldn't want to forget to credit anybody eh?

Enough of that, here is the description:

This hack allows you to teach your bot to answer questions that you specify.

To teach the bot you simply post in a specified bot-teaching thread.

The subject of your post is the question, and the body of your post is the answer.
The subject can be a word, and the body can be the definition.
The subject can be a phrase, and the body can be a response.

Posts are accumulated in the bot-teaching thread until you run a botlearner script.

This allows you to moderate the questions and answers your users might contribute before entering them into the bots knowledge base.

Running the botlearner script will do the following:
add posts to the bots knowledge
move posts from learning thread into a "bot-learned" thread

The bot-learned thread is an archive of everything you have taught your bot.
This way you can reset your bot if necessary without losing all that knowledge.
You can also SHARE! what you have taught your bot with other users of the Talkerbot Hack.

Share what your bot has learned! Use http://www.yoururl.com/forum/externa...type=AIMLSHARE


INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
--------------------------

Backup your stuff if you desire.

Create 2 threads where you want them, a bot-learned thread and a bot-teaching thread.

Make note of the threadid numbers of both threads and the postid number of the
first post in the bot-teaching thread. You will need them in a minute.

In external.php:

Find the switch statement.

switch ($_REQUEST['type'])
{
	case 'JS':
	case 'XML':
	case 'RSS2':
		break;
	default:
		$_REQUEST['type'] = 'RSS';
}

And insert the line case 'AIML': and
case 'AIMLSHARE':into it.
Like so:

switch ($_REQUEST['type'])
{
	case 'JS':
	case 'XML':
	case 'AIML':
                case 'AIMLSHARE':
	case 'RSS2':
		break;
	default:
		$_REQUEST['type'] = 'RSS';
}

Still in external.php insert this block into the if-else chain.
Replacing TEACHINGTHREADID,TEACHINGTHREADFIRSTPOSTID, and BOTLEARNEDTHREADID, BOTLEARNEDFIRSTPOSTID with the appropriate numbers.

else if ($_REQUEST['type'] == 'AIML')
{ // XML/AIML output


	$posts = $DB_site->query("
	SELECT post.title, post.pagetext, post.postid 
	FROM post
	WHERE post.threadid=TEACHINGTHREADID AND post.postid!=TEACHINGTHREADFIRSTPOSTID");

	$postcache = array();
	while ($post = $DB_site->fetch_array($posts))
	{ // fetch the posts
	$postcache[] = $post;
	}

	// set XML type and nocache headers
	header('Content-Type: text/xml');
	header('Expires: ' . gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s') . ' GMT');
	header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
	header('Pragma: public');

	// print out the page header
        echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="' . $stylevar['charset'] . '"?>' . "\r\n";
	echo '<aiml version="1.0">';
	
	
	foreach ($postcache AS $post)
	{
		echo "<category>";
		echo "<pattern>";
		echo strtoupper($post[title]);
		echo "</pattern>\r\n";
		echo "<template>   \r\n";
		echo $post[pagetext]."   \r\n";
		echo "</template>   \r\n";
		echo "</category>   \r\n";
	$DB_site->query("UPDATE post SET threadid=BOTLEARNEDTHREADID WHERE postid=".$post[postid]);
	}
	echo "\r\n</aiml>";
}

Still in external.php insert this block into the if-else chain.
Replacing BOTLEARNEDTHREADID, BOTLEARNEDFIRSTPOSTID with the appropriate numbers.

else if ($_REQUEST['type'] == 'AIMLSHARE')
{ // XML/AIML output
	$posts = $DB_site->query("
	SELECT post.title, post.pagetext, post.postid 
	FROM post
	WHERE post.threadid=BOTLEARNEDTHREADID AND post.postid!=BOTLEARNEDFIRSTPOSTID");

	$postcache = array();
	while ($post = $DB_site->fetch_array($posts))
	{ // fetch the posts
	$postcache[] = $post;
	}

	// set XML type and nocache headers
	header('Content-Type: text/xml');
	header('Expires: ' . gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s') . ' GMT');
	header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
	header('Pragma: public');

	// print out the page header
        echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="' . $stylevar['charset'] . '"?>' . "\r\n";
	echo '<aiml version="1.0">';
	
	foreach ($postcache AS $post)
	{
		echo "<category>";
		echo "<pattern>";
		echo strtoupper($post[title]);
		echo "</pattern>\r\n";
		echo "<template>   \r\n";
		echo $post[pagetext]."   \r\n";
		echo "</template>   \r\n";
		echo "</category>   \r\n";
	}
	echo "\r\n</aiml>";
}

Upload botlearner.php botlearnerinc.php and botlearnerfuncs.php to the same directory that botloader.php resides in.

should be /forum/alice/src/admin/



In file learnwhat.xml
change the line to fit your forum,

<learn>http://www.yourforums.com/yourforumdir/external.php?type=AIML</learn>

For each addition site you would like to get shared knowledge from insert a line:

To get your bot to use this insert the line:
<learn>http://www.shared.com/forum/external.php?type=AIMLSHARE</learn>

on a sidenote if you changed the name of your bot and it's info in startup.xml you'll want
to change it here in learnwhat.xml as well you can do this by making a copy of startup to be the new learnwhat.xml
and changing the line
<learn>*</learn>
to:
<learn>learnwhat.xml<learn>


Back to the straight story:

Upload learnwhat.xml to your AIML dir.

should be /forum/alice/aiml/

Go test things out.

Please let me know if I am an idiot and messed up the process here..

[Okiewan]

I guess I misunderstood then? I thought running botleaner was the only way to get the learned posts into the bot's database?

[eXtremeTim]

Originally Posted by Okiewan

I guess I misunderstood then? I thought running botleaner was the only way to get the learned posts into the bot's database?

It is. Botloader.php is the file you run the first time when your first setting him up that puts all the other info in the database. If you have run the sql files that setup the bots tables then just use botlearner without using botloader he will only know what you guys teach him.

[Okiewan]

Okay.. so I screwed-up and ran botloader, having troubles getting him going.
How can I removed the database entries loaded? As I said I want him to only know what we teach him (going to use it as a FQ of sorts, specific to my site's audience)

It's installed and learning, but is NOT moving the posts from "Teach" to "Learned"

Question: is the post ID (the first in either thread) supposed to be the post NUMBER (ie; "1") in the thread or the actual post ID number?

I have to admit I got a little confused during installation with this part:

on a sidenote if you changed the name of your bot and it's info in startup.xml you'll want
to change it here in learnwhat.xml as well you can do this by making a copy of startup to be the new learnwhat.xml
and changing the line
<learn>*</learn>
to:
<learn>learnwhat.xml<learn>

Someone care to make that a little more clear? I have learnwhat and startup in the same directory and they contain different info... I modified "learnwhat" only. Do I just copy the contents of learnwhat into startup, then put <learn>learnwhat.xml<learn> in it (into startup)?

[eXtremeTim]

Dont even read that part its not needed. Just start with bot learner and modify it to make your bot custom. To reset the bot you need to drop the tables that the sql file setup. I would list all the tables but i dont have the files handy.

[Okiewan]

Got it working, he does learn and the teach and Learned threads work.

When you ask him who someone is, he returns the right answer but always starts his reply with something like "I don't know the name". Ugg.

[dano]

Originally Posted by BillaBongUSA

Dang it, I keep getting this message when I try to load the botlearner.php script:



I don't know what's wrong, I checked all the files and file locations and everything, but I keep getting that error.

I am having a simular issue. Mine is saying

XML error: junk after document element at line 2


I think it may be in my external.php as when I go to my AIML I get this error

Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_STRING' or `T_VARIABLE' or `T_NUM_STRING'

[Okiewan]

Okay, I give up. What table is the learned (via this mod) data stored in?

[eXtremeTim]

Originally Posted by dano

I am having a simular issue. Mine is saying

XML error: junk after document element at line 2


I think it may be in my external.php as when I go to my AIML I get this error

Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_STRING' or `T_VARIABLE' or `T_NUM_STRING'

Yes thats from your external.php not being hacked correctly.

Okiewan drop these tables "bot,bots,conversationlog,dstore,gmcache,gossip,pa tterns,templates,thatindex,thatstack" then run the sql file included in my talkerbot hack then run botlearner.php to start teaching it stuff.

[Geographic2]

Originally Posted by Okiewan

Okay, I give up. What table is the learned (via this mod) data stored in?

pattern and template.

[Geographic2]

Originally Posted by eXtremeTim

Im tired of running botlearner and find out that there was an error so all the posts were moved but not added into the db.

What errors are you running into? DB errors or something? I don't have any traffic flowing through mine so it's hard to test for everything. What is happening?