SAPR: Advanced Post Rating system (ajax)
 

Seba's Advanced Post Rating (SAPR) system with ajax- beta 2.

What is it?
In short: this is the wet dream of every vb board owner

In big: This is much more!
This adds a thumbs up/down post rating system: youtube style.

But wait there's more!
It not only adds a post rating system that works with and without ajax, but it also adds options to filter posts (on-the-flow with javascript) based on that rating.

That way your users will be able to browse easier trough threads by setting a filter, which collapses posts under a certain rating.
It also will prevent users of flooding you're site with 3 word posts.

AND THERE'S STILL MORE! It also adds a system of 'good posts', you can set a value of what is considered as a good post, and if a post reaches this value, the author gets +1 on his good post score.
So you get to see: this user has 500 posts and 150 good posts.

AND IF THAT ISN'T ENOUGH: it's also completely configurable through the admincp.

And if you download it now you also get a very nice installation guide!!

Reminder / read this
This product is still in beta stage and it can contain bugs, backup every thing you change.

Currently the rating only works with vb 3.7, in the future 3.5 and 3.6 will also be supported, but they will not have ajax rating.

This mod works best if you use the postbit template, for postbit_legacy the filtering has few effect as collapsing still leaves a lot of the post

The good posts system still needs further development, which will be done after this beta testing

This is not a supported product, I'll fix the bugs and continue to work on it, but I'll don't answer questions, never.

Copyright
All heil to seba

Instructions
It's good if you got some basic html knowledge to install this mod
See manual

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Release notes
-13/02/2008: initial version 1.0.0 beta released
-15/02/2008: version 1.0.0 beta 2 released

NEW: option for the rating of first posts in a thread
NEW: option for the rating of own posts
NEW: admincp menu for the postrating with the option to rebuild, prune, reset the system
NEW: a class to prune, rebuild, reset the system
NEW: should work with vb 3.5 and 3.6 (not tested)
SEC FIX: fixed the bypass check bug
BUG FIX: some javascript errors
BUG FIX: some wrong phrases

Known Issues:
As stated: the good posts don't really work as expected in some cases.

Javascript error at some values (reported by stoebi): temporary fix: disable plugin postrate - save at location postdata_postsave.

Hell, that what I've been searched for a long time. Congrats in coding such a nice hack. Gonna install it right now. Definately well deserved and nominated for MOTM!!! :up: Installed Thank you very much, Sir :) -Mike

Although I have no personal use for this, this is a great idea!

Nominated for MOTM!

Edit: One question, why on the ACP does it say "Ja" or "Nee" for options?

Thanks,
the 'ja' / 'nee' is because i'm dutch and I have the dutch language pack installed, but with you it should show as 'yes' / 'no'

Nicely done. I wrote a custom hack for my site which does this; I've been pleased with the results, and suspect others will be, too. :)

Wow, looks neat. Thanks a bunch!

On a side note: TWTCommish, wow, it's been so long! I remember beta testing your first vB2 hacks. :D

Hi,

thank you very much for this nice hack. :)

The bypass checks are not working for me. My registered user has the option 'bypass checks' off and they can rating multiple times.

The option 'Posts with a rating below this will be collapsed by default' is set to -3:
If i rate a post negative (-1), the post will be collapsed. And also a value higher as -1, for example 0, 1, or 2 etc., has no effect. :(

The phrase for negative and positive needs to be exchanged. ;)
For example:
thumb_down -> Geef positieve rating should be Geef negatieve rating
thumb_up -> Geef negatieve rating should be Geef positieve rating

Collapse/Expand is only possible if this option enabeld for a group:
Can filter posts in a thread

If i rate my own post more then 8 times, the good post counter for my post increases to 1. If i rate other people posts more then 8 times, the good posts counter displays 0. Is this a correct behaviour?


Regards, Stoebi

I really can't reproduce this.
Try it for yourself: set the bypass check permission off and see if you can vote twice on the same post.

what is the value in the filter dropdown menu (in the showthread)?
The system uses that value, normally it is the option, but if your usergroup can set a default value, it is the value you've set in your usercp (by default: 0, however in the next update, i'll change this to be the value of the option).
thanks, something i forgot

that's normal behaviour, filtering posts is collapsing or expanding posts.

no it isn't, but the good post system is made up very quickly, and needs more work (also for the next beta which will be soon)

Hm, it works sometimes, but not continuously. If it works, then only for the first post in the thread.

Perhaps this is due to this error during load/refresh the site:
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0. Perhaps a value higher as -1 (0, 1 etc.) should not be allowed.

Thank you :)

Okay, thank you very much for your answer(s). :)

Now i have -> Good posts: 4294967294 <- and I can't reproduce this at the moment :(


Regards, Stoebi

Lol I had written a very similar mod for my own board but never had the time to prepare it for public release. I guess I won't need to find that time at all :P