[DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like v3 (vB5) [AJAX]
 

What it is: Advanced Thanks/Like mod is designed to cut down on spam and increase useful content in your forum by using a peer encouragement system - users thank/like each others posts, which can encourage the thanked person to post more great content.

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Translations available @ our forum.

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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php

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Postbit stats: Shows how many button clicks a person has given, received etc in the postbit. Admins can determine what statistics can show in the postbit to control sizes etc.

Admin Permissions: Control things such as who can click buttons, require button clicks, what shows in postbit, what options can run concurrently, per forum permisions etc.

Notifications: Receive alerts when a member clicked on one of the buttons for one of your posts.



Infinite Buttons: Ability to create new buttons to press! No longer do you need to be limited by Thanks / Like / Dislike.

User Postbit Config: Lets users decide what postbit stats they want to see.

Additional permissions: Un-click a button. Control how many stats show on the statistics page, set permissions per subforum.

Buttons in First Post Only: This allows you to only make the first post thankable. If you forum is based around news, releases or anything similar this will allow your users to easily see the quality of the thread in question.

Button Click Anonymity: This feature will be extremely helpful to forums who like the idea of a "dislike" button, but don't like the drama it brings. Now you can set certain buttons to be anonymous - no one will see who clicked.




Require a Button Click: Allows you to hide the content of a post, or hie an attachment, until the person clicks a button on the post.

Statistics: Shows the top 5 people for; Giving / Receiving button clicks.

Import Thanks: Import script to import "thanks" from Abe's [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack on vBulletin.org. It will work with both vB3 and vB4 versions of this mod.



Auto Collapse Posts: Collapses a post so it doesnt show up by using a formulae for button clicks of your choosing.

Post Colour Thresholds: Ever wanted an easy way for members to tell if a post is helpful or trash? Colour thresholds let you change the colour of posts depending on how many clicks of a button they receive. Members can now see at a glance whether or not a post is helpful, interesting or pointless.


Complete Feature List
Lite

Thanks / Like / Dislike Buttons

• Fully integrated into the vBulletin 5 postbit footer
• Same style / functionality as the vBulletin Reputation / "Like" controls
• On-demand list of people who clicked a certain button
• Fully AJAX driven

Button Control

• Edit name and action text
• Turn off "Given" stats
• Turn off "Received" stats
• Ability to turn off buttons per Category

Notifications

• Forum notification
• Notifications contain direct link to the post in question

Maintenance

• Cleanup, removes any thanks / likes / dislikes from posts that no longer exists
• Recalculate, recalculates how many thanks / likes / dislikes a user should have
• Rebuild Statistics, ensures the Statistics table is correctly populated and its values are correct.

Search

• Filter entries by username, button, start date, end date
• Change number of entries per page
• Change sort order

Repair Cache

• Ensures the button / page router caches are updated

Front-End

• Profile tabs integration

Pro

UserCP Settings

• Hide postbit items per-button
• Turn off notifications

Button Control

• Create unlimited buttons to click
• Minimum posts required to click a button
• Per-usergroup setting to become immune to clicks of a button
• Per-usergroup setting whether who clicked a button is displayed
• Per-usergroup setting to allow disabling clicks of a specific button for a post
• Per-usergroup setting to allow removing a click of a button
• Limit button clicks per day
• Per-forum ability to set each button to only display in the first post
• Per-forum toggle of what buttons are enabled
• Turn off "Given" and "Received stats on a per-button basis

Search

• Ability to delete entries found in the Search interface
• Change number of entries per page
• Change sort order

Notifications

• Email notification, respects the receiving user's email settings
• Can be disabled on a per-button basis

Missing Feature List
Lite

• Front-End
  • Require button clicks to see content (whole post is hidden)
  • Require button clicks to see attachments
  • Each button can be set as "Default" for Attachments and Content. When posting via Quick Reply, the default button(s) will be set as Required
  • Top 5 Given / Received statistics for each button
  • Widget for recent Button Clicks
  • Hottest Threads / Posts page showing most clicked posts and threads

Pro

• Front-End
  • "Entry List" page; a browseable list of all button clicks
  • Hottest Threads / Posts has a date range filter
• AdminCP
  • Set more / less than 5 for the Given / Received statistics
  • Ability to auto-collapse posts using provided formula or input for your own using your custom buttons
  • Ability to create Post Colour Thresholds to highlight posts in different colours
  • (vB4) Choose what portions of the postbit should be coloured via the post colour thresholds.
  • Individual users now be excluded from using the mod

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of all pages which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

This looks tons better than the vb3/4 version. Hope the look can be back ported :)

We currently have no plans to backport the looks due to the fact that the Thanks Bar is deeply integrated into the functionality of the old version, but that's not to say plans won't change :)


Fillip

Nice! Only thing I would mention is that there's now two links that users can use for liking a post.

See your screenshot :P

You can disable the vBulletin reputation system via vBulletin Options :)


Fillip

On install I have this error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ')' in C:\webserver\www\vb5beta\core\packages\dbtechthank s\install\304a1.php on line 61

missing a comma on this line 'name' => 'settings'

regards

Fixed, and also fixed an issue with the DataManagers on Beta 14 :)


Fillip

No, I was suggesting you do that and update your screenshot :D

It's a minor thing but ya'know :p

Oh, haha I see. Will do, thanks :)


Fillip

Moved the line break from the start of the copyright to the end, thanks to mediasnog for pointing this out :)


Fillip

Advanced Post Thanks / Like (vB5) v3.0.6 Alpha 2:
Fix: Perma-fixed the copyright notice <br /> tag
Fix: Fixed notification email / PM links to posts on page 2 or further into the thread
Change: Improved some back-end code to give vBulletin less work when executing certain queries
Change: Reduced number of executed queries
Change: Converted additional legacy queries
Change: Removed some unneeded code for DataManagers
Change: Slightly improved performance on the dedicated vBulletin Options page for this mod
Change: Renamed the JS files for consistency

Fillip

Installed on Version 5.0.0 Beta 23 and got this error
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'invalid_query_parameters for saveDbCache' in /home/m***/public_html/forum/core/vb/db/query/method.php:170 Stack trace: #0 /home/ma***/public_html/forum/core/vb/db/assertor.php(269): vB_dB_Query_Method->execSQL() #1 /home/ma***/public_html/forum/core/vb/cache/db.php(390): vB_dB_Assertor->assertQuery('saveDbCache', Array) #2 /home/ma***/public_html/forum/core/vb/cache.php(885): vB_Cache_Db->notifyShutdown() #3 [internal function]: vB_Cache->shutdown() #4 /home/ma***/public_html/forum/core/vb/shutdown.php(91): call_user_func(Array) #5 /home/ma***/public_html/forum/core/vb/vb.php(424): vB_Shutdown->shutdown() #6 [internal function]: vB::shutdown() #7 {main} thrown in /home/ma***/public_html/forum/core/vb/db/query/method.php on line 170

I'll look into it, haven't had a chance to keep up to date with vB5 versions as of late :)


Fillip

wow !!
Like Or Dislike
Wonderful and very useful to evaluate the threads :)

Much nicer then an easy to abuse reputation system.

But, I notice that regardless of what buttons are active, all the stats are still shown under the usernames in posts.
I only want to use the Like button on my forum so disabled the Dislike and Thanks buttons, but it still shows their stats.

I'll look into that for a bugfix update, thanks :)

I'll be going through our vB5 versions to ensure compatibility with the Gold version over the course of the upcoming week :)


Fillip

In your Readme file you have:

You need to remove the /core, that line should read:

That change has already been implemented in the current development copy, I'll update the "Live" text with the next update :)


Fillip

Can't wait for the vb 5.0 Forumon and vbactivity releases from you guys :)

nice mod but i have a problem i cant activate any three options (Thanks,Like,Dislike) they're all set Active to No once i hit to yes and save it, then it says succesfully saved but still not active :(

If you are running PHP 5.3.9 or higher you may want to try setting max_input_vars to 10000 or higher.

Fillip

Happening to me too. I tried a work around, go into phpmyadmin and manually change in the database from 0 to 1 to enable and it still resets itself.

Gonna uninstall until it works again.

Dbtech's are good at updating so just hang in there.

Can you please check the above advice and see if that works for you?

Fillip

Yeah, mine is set at 15000

In that case I'll need an FTP and AdminCP account in order to diagnose it further.

Fillip

pls update to 5.0.1

Installed again on vb 5.0.1 and have one problem when i set the permissions in Button Management its not activated every time i click on activate yes its not working

There's been a update in vB 5.0.1 that renders part of the database design defunct, I will fix it in a future version :)


Fillip

My buttons are there, my admin panel is there, I set it to active and everything, When I like a post, Thanks or dislike, nothing happens at all...

Any advise would be great.

You need to set your button permissions in the Button Management screen in the AdminCP :)


Fillip

Advanced Post Thanks / Like v3.0.4 Alpha 3
Change: Now requires vBulletin Connect 5.0.2 to run
Change: Reduced memory usage by reworking the way the mod caches things to take advantage of vB5's built-in long-term cache storage
Change: Modules in the Site Builder are now grouped under the "DragonByte" category rather than the "Display" category
Fix: Modules in the Site Builder now once again have titles

Fillip

The new version fixes issues with the UserCP and other assorted minor issues.

Fillip

Which plugin do i need to deactive to take away this line

Post Thanks / Like - 0 Thanks, 0 Likes, 0 Dislikes

It shows up bugged due to my new theme.

"Display "Total Click Count" On Thanks Bar" in vBulletin Options.

Fillip

I'm running vB 5.0.2 PL 1 and I can't activate the buttons. They are all set to "no" once I edit settings...:confused:

Can this hide certain parts of the post until someone has thanked or liked the post? or replied?

Same thing here. I tried to do some editing and now "thanks" shows not active. I could never make this work in 5.0.2 and now with PL1 same thing, still not working.

I especially want the "thanks" button to keep the forum cleaner without all those "Thank you" posts.

How can I make this work?

If you re-download the mod from our site and re-install it (uninstall then re-install) it should work as intended :)

This feature is currently not available in the vB5 version, sorry :(


Fillip

Now it just won't install at all. I get this for ever
http://screencast.com/t/UASw7L3da

I had it uninstalled but is there something I need to remove manually from the core or from the includes folders?

I am at a loss here.

when I click to the manage button it shows

the line 23 shows