Related topics / Random Topic?

[sifirforum.com]

so they dont need that mod and will not install.

but i need. 

[dtm.exe]

Well, you can set it not to include topics that didn't have reply in last 6 months

That would work.

-Dan The Man

[niko]

I think this would be easy to do it i had glossary file

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<?php
$related[] = array(
$topic = "web programming",
$words = array(
array("php"),
array("sql","mysql","database");
),
);
$related[] = array(
$topic = "programming",
$words = array(
array("vb","visual basic","basic"),
array("ms","microsoft");
),
);
?>


then when posted it would look thought every topic's word, each word giving a point , but max 1 per word group

like "i like php, because php is easy to use" would give 1 point for web programming...

[Grudge]

In terms of "related topics" I'd guess that they are generated when the topic is created (Based on the topic title and/or first post content) and never updated after that. Doing them every page load would be forum death

[sifirforum.com]

for example, can we use a technic like as google adsens.  ?

they get related ads in short time..

[Ivan Minic]

In terms of "related topics" I'd guess that they are generated when the topic is created (Based on the topic title and/or first post content) and never updated after that. Doing them every page load would be forum death

You are developer, think of something
Checkout vBulletin... that way should work charming..

[Grudge]

That was something - a suggestion of how to do it no less

I guess I'd probably do it by timestamping when the topic list was last updated and keep 5 ID_TOPIC numbers in a column on the topic table (comma seperated). When the topic is loaded the timestamp is checked - if it's more than 5 days old it runs a new search for related topics. If it's less than 5 days old it loads the topic names for each of the 5 numbers cached in the topics table. If some of these topics are gone (i.e. deleted) then it runs another search for 5 which aren't.

Equally - if the first post of the topic is edited it invalidates the cache to force a researching of related topics.

Is that a good enough plan for you

PS - I'm not intending to do this - but I'll admidt it might be a useful mod so thought I'd provide some advice

[Ivan Minic]

I know the usuall way it would be performance killer, but if ou tested vB ever you would see that the way it is done there doen't effect time loading or server performance at all.. And many CMS scripts have something similar for related news and it usually works fine..

[Klauser]

Hello,

I am also interested in a MOD Related Topic.....since 2 days I am now using SMF and before phpBB2 which has a realy good working MOD, possible the best one for phpBB2 ... Is there any chance to convert it to SMF ?

http://www.leuchte.net/dl.php?action=cat&catid=1

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Regards.

[niko]

I'm in process of making this mod

Image avaible in my blog

[Ivan Minic]

Bravo 

[niko]

Live demo @ http://www.madjoki.com/madbbs/

[Ivan Minic]

Will you make it also SMF 1.05 compatible?
How does it work.. searching topic title.. or?

[niko]

Will you make it also SMF 1.05 compatible?

Maybe

How does it work.. searching topic title.. or?

yea currently at least

[niko]

I will try to get this out tomorrow just need to make mod-files the code should be working... I have also to make Religion essay tomorrow

[Ivan Minic]

Any news?

[niko]

Laziness owned me... but today i got the package xml's done...
just need to test this... and submit (and get approved)

[Ivan Minic]

Great.. please, if possible, make if for 1.0 and 1.1 versions...

[niko]

mod is now waiting for approval... so release is soon...
this will work with 1.0.5 but you need to make changes manually

[Ivan Minic]

  This makes me a very happy fat man