Technorati Tags for Vbulletin

[amykhar]

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According to technorati docs, from what I can tell, adding <category> around keywords in the rss will get threads indexed by tags.

So, I have put together a crude addon to an existing mod that adds extra fields to threads.

First, I installed the mod above. Then, I added a new text field called Tags to my threads. Then, I looked in the database and saw that this field was added to the thread as 'field5'. (yours may vary.)

Then, I modified my external.php file to grab that field5 and explode the string into an array (commas were my separator of choice.)

Finally, I added <category> tags to the various xml formats. (I didn't bother with the javascript format as that is not used for the feeds.)

Note: I have RSS discovery code in my header include as well.

I think this mod could be better if I plug in to the forum search and enable users to search by tags as well. If I get time, I'll hack that in.

[amykhar]

A bit more on tags. I have also modified the original plugin from the mod to make the tags links to technorati in tag format. This will only work if you do not use the original mod to add any other fields to your threads.