Similar Threads

[mOdEtWo]

I've never used the Similar Threads feature, but figured I'd try it out now as I've enabled fulltext mysql search. I cannot get it to work tho for whatever reason.

I have enabled 'Automatic Similar Thread Search' and 'Show Similar Threads', but it still won't show.

Any ideas why?

[Steve Machol]

You need to rebuild the Similar Thread counter.

[mOdEtWo]

Correct.

[OCModShop]

I had this problem too. Once I rebuilt the Similar Threads (in the Maintenance/Update Counters tab), it showed up!

Thanks guys!

[Azza]

Hello,

Is there a way to show the similar threads on a custom page (one that includes global.php or something)

Thank you,

[user02934123123]

Azza... what sort of custom page are you thinking of? Normally this can only be displayed on the showthread template (i.e. the thread's page) - since it displays results based on similarities to that thread. If you were to remove it from the thread display, it wouldn't have a thread to interact with.

[Azza]

Hello,

Thank you for the response.

I'm displaying the whole Post content (first post of a certain Thread) in the custom page. The call to the Post ID is based on the url, let's say:

http://thedomain/articles/19

... where 19 is the ID of the first post.

I've managed to display the Post and some of its info (datelines, replies, authors, etc) correctly by doing $db -> query_first() and vB_BbCodeParser.

But is there a way to get the "similar threads" to appear in my custom page? Is there some functions that'll return the Thread or Post IDs of the similar threads? Maybe something like $similar_threads = get_similar_threads ($postid).

Or, does the similar threads stored in a table in the database? Which one?

[peterska2]

I'm sorry but we do not provide official support for custom coding. However you can try asking for this kind of help over at the vB mod site: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/

[Azza]

ah yes of course

Will do that, thank you

[Penicillin]

I had the same issue, and that fixed it.
Thanks very much

[jigger]

When is a thread considered to be a similar thread? Can you change the algorythm?

Somehow threads I would have expected to show up are not displayed. Eg I have a thread called "singer a & singer b - song title a" and a thread called "singer b - song title b". Both are just linking to video sites, but the links are displaying the singers' names, too. Those should be classified as similar threads, but they aren' t.

[peterska2]

I'm sorry but we do not provide official support for custom coding. However you can try asking for this kind of help over at the vB mod site: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/