New plugin: Bot (formerly shwaipbot)

Linc

[see the 2015 update below]

Give the System user a mind of its own: http://vanillaforums.org/addon/shwaipbot-plugin https://vanillaforums.org/addon/bot-plugin

Repo is here: https://github.com/lincolnwebs/VanillaExtracts https://github.com/linc/vanilla-bot

It's a developer-only kinda plugin because you need to code your own botreplies file. It's super simple tho, so any level of developer should be able to do it if you know PHP basics.

If you come up with any clever replies (functions) you want to share, please do.

peregrine

I'm going to teach mine to say

"Shwailcome To My Forum" to all newcomers.

The next phrase will be

Please Enter your "Shwersion of Wanilla"

and the tird replay will be

Please ShwaPost under Schwa correct ShwaPlugin.

if only it was the SchwaIPBot

htt://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa

or shaboobieBot

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shaboobie

vrijvlinder

I noticed this plugin has no icon ? so here is one I made for you @Lincoln

Linc

Why... is a gorilla crying?

vrijvlinder

@Lincoln said:
Why... is a gorilla crying?

lol, he is not a gorilla !! he's a Schwasquatch and he is not crying, that how they show they are happy to serve ....

vrijvlinder

So I made a couple more see if these suit you ?

peregrine

@System said: I vote for the middle one!

Linc

Middle one it is! It'll be in the next release. Thanks!

Linc

@vrijvlinder If you don't mind, @Vorgo has absconded with your Sasquatch.

vrijvlinder

Awesome, at least someone will use it, I think he is rather cute !!

Linc

2015 update: I've done a new plugin based on what I started with shwaipbot. The big differences are:

• Eliminated extra config file in favor of having other plugins hook into it as if it were a normal event in Vanilla.
• Silos the "reply" mechanism so there's room to grow in other directions - it's less linear now.
• Added hook to new discussions instead of just comments.
• Made it significantly easier to work with and documented it fully.

Introducing Bot.

You'll see shwaipbot lives on as an implementation example in the docs, and the name remains in use as my private implementation of Bot. Pre-release feedback welcome.

Linc

With Vorgo working, I've gone ahead and released it.

Linc

Version 1.1 cleans up some things and adds an 'afterSay' event to hook into.

I've used it to make my bot appear online when he replies (via Who's Online).

    /**
     * Show as online.
     *
     * @param Bot $bot
     */
    public function bot_afterSay_handler($bot) {
        if (!class_exists('WhosOnlinePlugin')) {
            return;
        }

        $now = Gdn_Format::toDateTime();
        $px = Gdn::sql()->Database->DatabasePrefix;
        $botID = $bot->botID();
        $sql = "insert {$px}Whosonline (UserID, Timestamp, Invisible) values ({$botID}, :Timestamp, :Invisible)
            on duplicate key update Timestamp = :Timestamp1, Invisible = :Invisible1";
        Gdn::database()->query($sql, array(':Timestamp' => $now, ':Invisible' => 0, ':Timestamp1' => $now, ':Invisible1' => 0));
    }

vrijvlinder

That icon is swell

Linc

Version 1.2 brings some fun new toys I abstracted from my own bot implementation:

• randomize() lets you pick a random reply from a list without repeating yourself too soon.
• state() and getState() let you pull off multi-step actions by "remembering" where you are in a sequence.
• online() will make your bot user appear online (if you're also using the Who's Online plugin).
• Some commands are now chainable: $bot->setState()->setReply()->say()->online();