New Posting Features - Automatic Thread Tagger

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

[Sym0n]

Hi,
I've just hit upon a dodgy symbol in a thread title that has thrown out an error as the tag.

The original title was:

?25 - 15 minute track time.

The auto tag generated for this was:

PHP Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>406 Not Acceptable</title> </head><body> <h1>Not Acceptable</h1> <p>An appropriate representation of the requested resource /forum/autotagger_ajax.php could not be found on this server.</p> <p>Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p> <hr> <address>Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8b mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.6 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.8.8 Server at domain.com Port 80</address> </body></html> 


I immediately added '?'=>'' to the exclusion but that's had no effect. I've tested and no matter where the ? symbol is this error is thrown out as the tag. It also affects, after some testing, the symbols % and ?.

If you need anything else let me know.

Ta

Sy

[turbosatan]

Originally Posted by Phalynx

As I already stated to you:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...50#post1607350

This is taken from the troubleshooting passage:

a little explanation as to where you find this was all i needed then

run maintenance wasnt exactly explanative

[stevectaylor]

The RSS says we need to alter a template, where are the instructions for this?

[Phalynx]

Originally Posted by Sym0n

The auto tag generated for this was:

This sounds like the file autotagger_ajax.php is not on the forum. Please upload it.

Originally Posted by turbosatan

a little explanation as to where you find this was all i needed then
run maintenance wasnt exactly explanative

If you would read my first post regarding the troubleshooting you would have it already.

Originally Posted by stevectaylor

The RSS says we need to alter a template, where are the instructions for this?

This is outdated. Please delete all files from old versions.

[Audax666]

Hi,

I love this add on!
A suggestion for for the next update.
Would it be possible, to add membernames to the exclude list?
I often have names of users in the thread title, but they aren't relevant for the tags i think.
That's all....

[Phalynx]

I will include this in 1.1.2

[Rik Brown]

Wishlist Item

We only want to have words in our tags (no numbers, symbols, etc.). If you allow numbers, you have an infinite number of often useless tags. To fix this, we are currently running a mySQL query to remove tags that do not meet this standard with a regex query [^a-zA-Z.]. This is to allow only letters of the alphabet and a period used for abbreviations.

I hope that a similar "words only" option for tags could be built into the mod or, even better, the possibility to block tags based on regex so each webmaster can customize blockage.

Thanks again for this excellent mod! -- Rik

[Phalynx]

Just feed the filter with the following;
'0'=>''
'1'=>''
'2'=>''
...

[stevectaylor]

I ink this is the best ad on yet. Well done.

[ArnyVee]

Works great for me