jeffjohnvol Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 I know you guys may wanto to keep your forum unadulterated so you can get the phpbb updates (assuming this is phpbb) but, here are some enhancement suggestions: 1) it would be useful if on a given topic a user could populate a comma delimited field that would have tags that go into an index page. They could put something like "thumbnail, graphics" if they had a topic question about a thumbnails. That way, when searching, someone could go to the "index" and see all the posts on thumbnails. I realize that someone could just search on "thumbnails" or "graphics", but they would get posts that inavertendly mention "thumbnails" or "graphics". Just a thought. 2) Another feature that would be nice is if some of us noobs see a post we want to use later, we could "bookmark" it so we could find it in our profile. Of course, we could just copy/paste the link in a text file as well. Just my $0.02. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Firstly, this is an smf board. Now... 1: You can search for topics containing all words within your query. Given your example this would narrow the search down to posts containing the words thumbnail and graphics. 2: You can (kind of) do this by using the notify feature. Any posts you want book marked, click notify, this will add them to your notifications list within your profile. You can then choose to turn of the email notification option, leaving you simply with a list of bookmarks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffjohnvol Posted December 20, 2007 Author Share Posted December 20, 2007 Perhaps the thumbnails and graphics are a bad example. If you were wanting to search for "while" loops or "if" statements, you would get tons of stuff since some of those words are used in common speech. I was just thinking it would be a better way of drilling into the context sensitive searches. Its probably too much work, and maybe not worth doing. It was just a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 Yeah, I see what your getting at and suggestions are always welcomed. Things like this though should probably be suggested to the smf devs, we ourselves (as you guessed) don't really want to mod the board too much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsaba Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 I'm working on an algorithm that's similar to the way word clouds works, it automatically parses text and finds most likely words that should be tagged for the text. Other than the number of time a word occurs in a text, there are other ways to determine what needs tagging. This would be a nice mod for SMF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffjohnvol Posted January 17, 2008 Author Share Posted January 17, 2008 I will be working on a mod to do this once I get SMF installed. I'm using a nuke platform, but am about to load the www.smf-nuke.com version to get away from phpbb. phpbb is a nice forum, but I like SMF's cleaner look. Plus, if phpfreaks is using it, it says something about it too. I have built something similar in phpbb but lost it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayBachatero Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 There is a tag mod for SMF. http://www.smfhacks.com/hacks/Tagging-System.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffjohnvol Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 Cool. That will save me a lot of work, lol Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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