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

[inciarco]

Originally Posted by inciarco

Hello.

I've just noticed when I tried to Automatically Tag all the Threads of my Forum, that on Maintenance -> Upsate Counters I'm having the following Error Message where there is suppose to be the "Delete Auto Tags" and "Auto Tag Threads" Options:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/zzz/public_html/forums/admincp/misc.php(1790) : eval()'d code on line 135

Do you know why this can be caused? or perhaps what I should look to locate what's wrong?

When I first Installed the Product it worked fine, but somehow I'm getting this Error Now. I have vB 3.7.3 PL 1.

I tried Uploading the Files Again and also Re-Installing and Overwriting the Product and nothing happened.

I appreciate your Guide.

My Best Regards.

I found the Answer; I customized a Mod (For Including a BB Code Table) and somehow it caused some Conflict in some Plugin of that Mod; so, Disabling Mod by Mod and Refreshing the Maintenance -> Update Counters Window, I discovered that Specific Mod causing the Trouble; so I decided to Disable that Mod because this Auto-Tag Mod is way more Important.

I Hope this Helps persons with that same Error, the Answer is go Mod by Mod Disabling One by One, and seeing Differences on the Error Message, and eventually by Disabling One or perhaps more Mods (see Differences on "eval()'d code on line ZZZ") the Error Code will Go Away and then the Page you're Trying will Load Ok.

My Bes Regards.

[redlabour]

Originally Posted by abrecher

Is this mod 3.8 compatible ?

Yes.

[Phalynx]

Automatic Thread Tagger has been updated to 1.2:
- 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

[madmax1228]

Thanks for the update.

[VargTimmen]

Thanks for the update!

[Subah]

thanks for the update

[payman]

thanksal lot :up:

[Nadeemjp]

does it work with 3.8?

[Phalynx]

Nadeemjp, why do you ask in 3 different threads of 3.7 hacks where you could take a look at the 3.8 hacks and find it there? Yes, it is compatible, just check the 3.8 mod section.

[luket79]

Question - Does this resolve the issue of using thread prefixes? For example, if the user chooses no prefix on a board that has the option, a tag is created called "no prefix".

Is this something that is fixed here as well by chance?

Thanks