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.

[7lanet]

the code does not work with version 3.7.1
and this code causes mistakes please edite it to be fitted with3.7.1

thank you

[guvner]

Originally Posted by 7lanet

the code does not work with version 3.7.1

That's not quite accurate - it may not work with your 3.7.1, but it works just fine with mine

[Universal]

Thankyou buro9 and also thankyou citeman for that quick fix, those characters were a problem. Works perfectly on 3.7.1

[Noodles24]

I've converted it to a product as I don't like doing code modifications (especially when vbulletin is upgrading every other month).

Should work with 3.7.x (tested with 3.7.1)

[ArnyVee]

Noodles, you are THE man!

Hopefully this is 'added' to the actual first post so that we can keep this hack 'updated'.

[CP,]

This is what i was looking for exactly! Can somebody kindly help this person to make this hack into an automated feature please?

Cheers

[dutchbb]

Originally Posted by ArnyVee

Noodles, you are THE man!

Hopefully this is 'added' to the actual first post so that we can keep this hack 'updated'.

+1 ASA the coder confirms this we can upgrade to the plugin, otherwise its best to wait.

[tobybird]

Originally Posted by Kerry-Anne

The ability to auto tag RSS Feed created posts would finish this off perfectly. I know that on the site I installed it on my members love it and has got the regulars starting to tag their threads and others threads while doing it for them if they forget or don't think about doing it. I just need to be able to do it with RSS Feeds then it will be perfect and I could install it on another few sites which would benefit from it greatly.

Oh this would be an outstanding addition.

Thank you for this modification!

**Installed**

[mavortium]

Noodles for galactic president!

[schlottkej]

It adds the tags from the RSS feed titles, however, they don't actually work as links...

ALSO, any way to add the functionality where it goes back through each thread and tags based on title? I see the automatic post by NOODLES, but I can't see how it works exactly? I don't know where it is located?