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.

[dfc005]

I'd also love to see this mod go through and ad tags to all previous threads.

[Brandon Sheley]

works great!

[high]* Brandon Sheley clicked install and nominated motm [/high]

[jim6763nva]

Originally Posted by dfc005

I'd also love to see this mod go through and ad tags to all previous threads.

I would think there would have to be a one time maintenance utility that would be run. This mod would do tags going forward.

[q8salem]

Thanks man

It works great

[redlabour]

After Automatic Thread Tagger is dead - any chance to get a Update here with his Code to get a Modification without editing Files?

And yes i agree - we need a Script that Tags all old Threads.

[steveneff]

When my posters select tags for a post, if the tag does not already exist the tag is refused.
Is it possible for this mod to check existing tags and only allow them to be added to the posts tag list?

Forget this post, it already does this.

[Magnumutz]

Originally Posted by redlabour

After Automatic Thread Tagger is dead - any chance to get a Update here with his Code to get a Modification without editing Files?

And yes i agree - we need a Script that Tags all old Threads.

Yeah, that's exactly what i was thinking of... how about it buro?

[FreshFroot]

there is no way to REQUIRE tags for all NEW THREADS.. without a file edit?

[Silencer Groans]

Thank

[Magnumutz]

There should be one... some other dude achieved it.