Removing template hooks will definitely impact mods (and not just this one)... Glad they sorted it out and are returning those as options.

i dont know alot about editing vbulletin, ive only used phpbb/

how cna i remove the "did you find this helpful" phrase.

and two, how can i move the plus/minus to beside the post number.

this is a good mod but its ugly so i dont think ill use it.

As you don't like the mod don't use it.

i dont like the way it looks because when it is in the thread text box it jumbles up close to the post when the skin is fluid and compressed. i was asking if it can be made to look good for me up beside the number of the post on thread (logical placement)

With templates you can move elements wherever you want, however you want. Mods are merely a starting point to serve the general community.

when ranked , appears a error:

<div id="helpfulanswers_box_" style="text-align:right;">
<br /><hr size="1" style="color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]" />



<i> <font size="2" color="green">+ 3 </font><font size="1" color="green">Galletas </i></font>
<br><br>








<strong><font size="1" color="green">thank you!</font></strong>

</div>


What´s going on?

Have you modified any of the templates from the addon or your post/ post legacy style?

nope. Im using a vbulleting generated style.

Resolved (disabled negative voting): When members vote, and the "1 out of 1 members..." come up, the icons (the red/green hands) disappear. What to do?

Resolved (edited helpful-answers template): And when giving thumbs up or down in post (not the first one) the text "1 out of 1 members..." is RIGHT above the posts text. Can I do so that the post text is one line lower? It seems a bit cramped up.

I use v. 4.1.11.

Thanks.

All good or is there anything still outstanding you want to do?

I have install and enable the Mode but can not see the icon or rate mode on post.

Please what could be the problem?

Have you enabled it in the forum you are viewing? Have you changed other settings which would impact who sees the voting options such as usergroup restrictions?

First of all thank you for this mod.

But i am facing a strange problem, when this mod is enabled in the forumdisplay page, threads are not sorted properly by the last post date.

When disabled everything works fine.

Any idea?

Voting features work with vB 4.2. Should you find anything broken please report it back to this thread.

What, if any, settings have you changed? How are threads ranked by default?

By default they are ranked by descending order. I tried disabling your mod, everything looked fine. If you want, i can pm you the screen shots.

And your settings for the mod....?

Hi,

When someone vote on a post, the thread appears as many time as there are posts that have been voted (+ or -). Who to avoid this duplicates ?

Thanks.

That's certainly not something that should be happening... It sounds like something is going wrong with your mySQL records...

Take a look at the table helpfulpost and a post that shows up multiple times. There should be just one entry per postid.

I.E. SELECT COUNT(*) FROM helpfulpost WHERE postid = '12345';

Ted S...do you have any idea on how I might do this (the second quote)? I got it working thanks to your help but just saw this post was bumped and recalled I never did figure out how to make it preview the posts.

I can probably handle the design part of it but is that a specific code I am looking for or anything?

You'll need to alter the script's query to join the post table, get the body message, potentially parse it through the editor if you allow styling and that's about it.

SELECT <existing stuff>,post.message

JOIN post ON helpfulpost.postid = post.postID

I am using the default settings. Everything is fine, if the mod is disabled.

Modify the plugin hook forumdisplay_query_threadid to

And let me know if that fixes it

Still no luck Ted!

Update: I modified forumdisplay_query hook with your code.

That seems to fix my problem.

Great. We'll roll that into the next official release.

Hello TedS,

in the helpfulpost table, every postid has a single line, no duplicate in database. But there are always here in the forum pages. the threadid has 5 line in helpfulpost table (5 distinct postid) that seems correct, but I have exactly 5 duplicate threads on the thread page of the forum.

Regards.

And when you disable just this mod that goes away, correct?

please help me, how to make only certain usergroup can vote it, for example only moderator and supermod can vote it.

That's not something built in but you can hack the mod to do it through both the XML and php file.

Thank you for your immediate reply.

Can you tell me, whats the exact code i have to change, to get the feature?

In the xml file there's an existing set of functions that check for a user's rights to vote in the hook postbit_display_complete. A very similar routine exists in the rate function of helpfulanswers.php. You'll want to change both so only approved users see the option to vote on the frontend and so that no one can trick a vote in on the backend.

Beyond that I can't teach you how to code but there are many great resources out there that will... Start hacking and searching, that's the best way to learn.

First of all thanks for the Mod.

I have the same problem as Eole in that while it works fine, it replicates the thread like three times. If I switch disable Helpful Answers the replicated threads are deleted.

I read the suggestions but really dont get it. :(

He stopped responding [can't say I blame him] so we never sorted out the issue for his forum... Back to square one.

Take a look at the table helpfulpost and a post that shows up multiple times. There should be just one entry per postid.

I.E. SELECT COUNT(*) FROM helpfulpost WHERE postid = '12345';

Hey Ted,

First of all thanks for the response.

Unfortunately, I'm a layman in I.T and have no idea what you mean in terms of table?

I might just try to find an easier Mod, which is ashame as I 'liked' this one

But thanks again for responding

Gotcha... Well best of luck with your site!

Hi Ted S,

Yes, when disabling the mod, everything looks right.

I found the options that generate duplicate entries in the forum page :
On your forum, when activating "Order By Helpful Answers Votes?" (set to yes), every thread that have multiple post with a note, the thraed appears multiple times in the thread page of the forum.

I have disable this option at this time (not useful for my forum).

I have an other question : did you think about sorting posts in a thread depending on the number of positive/negative vote. this could give users show rapidly the bests answers (when multiple) just below the question. I'm just working on it, but maybe not with the best way than you.

Bye.

Hello all .
There is a nasty bug with this hack .
If someone tries to copy the link of a yes/no button which is used for rating while he is logged in , and then logs out and enters it in a browser, the rate gets accepted!!
(suppose the link to the yest button is like this : http://forum.ustmb.ir/helpfulanswers...id=5662&rank=1 , if you copy this to your address bar and press enter, the rate will be accepted! while you are not logged in at all!)
This causes mischievous users to abuse the system for giving positive or negative rates as they wish!
would someone please think about it ?

Interesting.... There's 5 of 6 different options that would stop this from happening like if you had a post minimum, votes per day, etc. but in the absence of those it looks like you are correct. And it's gone unnoticed for years too :D

Simple fix with the attached xml and voting script.

I'll test around more this evening and clean it up for a release.

HA version 2.4.2 has been released this evening to fix two small but important bugs.

The first resolves issues where selected voting types should show strange characters in the ajax posted votes [i.e. %1$s voted...]. This changes phrases only.

The second and more devious issue was spotted by faisaly.com in which users could copy a vote link, logout and use it multiple times to game the system. Forums with minimum post counts and voting limits were not impacted but given the potential impact it's suggested all forums update.

Changes are made to the XML file and /upload/helpfulanswers.php only.

No templates were modified.