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TalkerBot Add-on - Learning System · **Released**: 01-18-2004

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.

Code:

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:

Code:

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.

Code:

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.

Code:

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,

Code:

<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:

Code:

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..

mikeee · #72 04-21-2004, 03:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikeee

Can someone help? I keep getting this error:
=========================
Loading learnwhat.xml
Loading data aiml file: http://www.MYSITE.com/external.php?type=AIML
XML error: syntax error at line 1

Sorry to bump this again but I really can use some help. Anyone have any clue what this error means?

InsaneContender · #73 05-12-2004, 04:14 AM

It looks like you edited the file incorrectly.

InsaneContender · #74 05-12-2004, 04:20 AM

I am as well having difficulties though.

I did all the file edits and everything correctly (I checked maybe 30 times)

and I am doing this off a fresh install (I only want him to learn what we teach 'em)

It says it loads everything, in the learner; the posts get moved - yet he still responds with his universal error message...

Is there anything I might have done wrong?

Database is clean too... hmmm...

InsaneContender · #75 05-16-2004, 03:51 AM

*bump*

Geographic2 · #76 08-22-2004, 07:12 PM

Quote:

Can someone help? I keep getting this error:
=========================
Loading learnwhat.xml
Loading data aiml file: http://www.MYSITE.com/external.php?type=AIML
XML error: syntax error at line 1

It means there is a problem with the AIML feed...

when you put http://www.MYSITE.com/external.php?type=AIML in your browser, what do you get for output?
It would help if you cut and pasted that output here...

It's probably something wrong with external.php, check your modifications there.

Or you are missing your stylevar charset... try changing the line above:
echo '<aiml version="1.0">';

to:
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>' . "\r\n";

Quote:

It says it loads everything, in the learner; the posts get moved - yet he still responds with his universal error message...

Is there anything I might have done wrong?

Database is clean too... hmmm...

What are the contents of tables pattern and template in the DB after you have run the botlearner?

Are you matching the questions exactly when you ask him?
Try matching just a single word.
See if it can correlate that.

So put in the post title: what
and in the message: huh

And see if it can match that up.

I haven't tried it from a clean slate, but I will give it a shot when I get a bit of time. Right now I'm without a testing version of my board.

ambrosious · #77 08-28-2004, 12:22 AM

See below.

ambrosious · #78 08-28-2004, 12:24 AM

Hang on, I do see a mistake, check back.

ambrosious · #79 08-28-2004, 12:26 AM

See below.

ambrosious · #80 08-28-2004, 03:23 PM

I must have been tired when I posted that, please look at 'this' code and see where I messed it up please?

Is there support for this?

PHP Code:


			
// bot learning cycle





else if ($_REQUEST['type'] == 'AIML')

{ // XML/AIML output





    $posts = $DB_site->query("

    SELECT post.title, post.pagetext, post.postid 

    FROM post

    WHERE post.threadid=http://www.adultadventurers.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=30093 AND post.postid!=http://www.adultadventurers.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=30093#post496060");



    $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";

    $DB_site->query("UPDATE post SET threadid=http://www.adultadventurers.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=30094 WHERE postid=".$post[postid]);

    }

    echo "\r\n</aiml>";

}





else if ($_REQUEST['type'] == 'AIMLSHARE')

{ // XML/AIML output

    $posts = $DB_site->query("

    SELECT post.title, post.pagetext, post.postid 

    FROM post

    WHERE post.threadid=http://www.adultadventurers.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=30094 AND post.postid!=http://www.adultadventurers.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=30094#post496062");



    $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>";

}



/*======================================================================*\

|| ####################################################################

|| # Downloaded: 22:08, Sat May 22nd 2004

|| # CVS: $RCSfile: external.php,v $ - $Revision: 1.51 $

|| ####################################################################

\*======================================================================*/

Thanks for the help.

Moya · #81 09-14-2004, 05:48 AM

I've done verything without error

This is what I got when I ran the botlearner

Loading learnwhat.xml
Loading data aiml file: http://www.123.com/forum/external.php?type=AIML
could not open XML input

Any idea what is wrong here?

Thanks

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