Show Thread Enhancements - [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack

Post Thank You Hack

STAFF EDIT:
Note - The mod author has been unreachable for some time, but the vbulletin.org community has stepped up to provide a number of individual fixes over the years. ForceHSS, Hippy, and Seven Skins have all combined many of these fixes into product files.

ALL CREDIT STILL GOES TO ABE1 And this is still 'his' mod. Please still mark the mod as installed if you use any version of it.

That said so you don't need to apply a dozen + small fixes yourself you should consider downloading one of the updated packages below:

Hippy has one in this post.

AND / OR

ForceHSS has one in this post.

AND/OR

Seven Skins has one in this post.


- Original File Specs: post_thanks_7_82.zip (26.4 KB, 24844 downloads) - Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).
- There are five total patched versions available, some with and without the search fix - I've replaced the main file with the patched versions... please be sure to download and install the correct version, the main mod post contains links to additional information and patched files!
- If Abe1 returns he can request these packages be removed.


About this hack:
One of the biggest problems on forums as you may know is 'posts boosting'. There are users who LOVE to say 'thanks' when ever they can. How can it hurt? Their post count goes up, they have nothing to loose.

There are also users who really like to express their thanks to post but don't like posting a post that looks like they're post boosting.

Then comes the moderators who have to delete people's thanks yous so a thread can look readable with out the thanks yous thrown around.

Finally comes the posters of these useful posts. They have no idea how many people really likes their posts if only some people say 'thanks'.

What this hack does is fix ALL these problems - except those users who like post boosting. This places a button called 'thanks.' When a user clicks on it, it places his username in a box right under the post saying that so-and-so says 'thanks' for the post. Every-one who clicks is placed in one box.

By giving your users the extra feature, you forum will look allot nice and organized. It is a guaranteed liking by ALL the members of your forum.


Features:

• Uses vBulletin easy Product installer/updater/uninstaller
• Uses AJAX technology so your users don't have to refresh when they thank.
• Places an easy to use button next to the edit button
• Separate looks for postbit and postbit_legacy
• Places all Thanks into one small box
• Uses only ONE query every time you view a showthread page!
• Users can't thank twice
• Option to not allow users to thank their own post
• Guests don't see 'thanks' button
• Counts how many thanks a user gives
• Counts how many thanks a post gets
• Shows how many thanks a user gave in every post of his
• Shows how many thanks a user gave in profile
• Shows how many thanks a user got
• Shows how many posts or a user are thanked
• Shows info in profile
• Search for a users thanked posts
• Search for all thanked posts
• Administrator can remove all Thanks from a single post
• Users can remove their own Thanks
• Turn on and off hack totally
• Turn on and off hack for only some forums
• Option to turn off hack for all but the first post of a thread
• Option to turn off hack for all but the first post of a thread in specific forums
• Option to turn off hack view of date for specific or all forums
• Option to add to post count when someone clicks 'thanks'.
• Option to give a user who receives thanks reputation points.
• Ban Usergroups
• Ban Users
• Uses Phrases
• Cache Templates
• Guaranteed to be liked by ALL users on your forum!

Installation information on hack:

• Files edited: 0
• Templates edited: 0
• Files to upload: 8
• Time to install: 1 minute max

Updates:


Version 7.80 (12/30/09):

• Release of this hack for vBulletin version 4.0

Version 7.81 (01/02/10):

• Fixed some install and uninstall database errors.
• Made styling for postbit legacy a little better.
• Fixed the "separator" issue.
• Javascript file updated.

Version 7.82 (01/03/10):

• Fixed info alignment issues in the postbit for custom edited phrases.

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[DBStattoo]

Originally Posted by rbu

If you are using Legacy...

post_thanks_box

<li class="postbitlegacy postbitim" id="post_thanks_box_{vb:raw post.postid}" style="top:-10px;<vb:if condition="!$post_thanks_box == 1"> display:none;</vb:if>">
	{vb:raw post_thanks_box}
</li>

post_thanks_javascript

<style type="text/css">
.postbitlegacy .postfoot .textcontrols a.quickreply, .postbitlegacy .postfoot .textcontrols a.post_thanks_button  {
	background: url(images/buttons/post_thanks.png) no-repeat transparent left;
	padding-left: 20px;
}
.postbitlegacy .postfoot .textcontrols a.quickreply:hover, .postbitlegacy .postfoot .textcontrols a.post_thanks_button:hover  {
	background: url(images/buttons/post_thanks-hover.png) no-repeat transparent left;
</style>

post_thanks_postbit
find <div class="postbody"> and change it to <div class="postbody" style="margin-left:0;">

Nice thanks

[reimic]

Originally Posted by Charlie98902

Are they your posts?

Ok sorry. I am an idiot!

[DBStattoo]

Nice hack install and nominate :up:

[vulture]

Getting the following error when upgrading from 5.3

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.0:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE `user` ADD `post_thanks_user_amount` INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL;

MySQL Error   : Duplicate column name 'post_thanks_user_amount'
Error Number  : 1060
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.41-community

Edit: v5.3 is disabled when I do the upgrade

[Charlie98902]

Try removing all of the thank you hack and do a clean install of the newest version here. It's worth a shot.

[vulture]

Was thinking that but then I guess all users loose their thanks.

No big deal I guess. I'll backup the DB before I do that though!

[Charlie98902]

I am no coder but it is a shot in the dark. I agree with the loss of thanks my members lost the same too as I uninstalled the 3.8 version before I upgrade the forum but they understand too.

[AdamSC]

Hi there, thanks for the great post - I am trying to figure out how I can make this appear on a custom skin - what do I add and to which template file?

[vulture]

The install assumes that the relevant fields on the table don't exist. Is there not a way of checking to see if they already exist and skip?

<![CDATA[$db->query_write("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS`". TABLE_PREFIX ."post_thanks` ( `id` INT(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, `userid` INT(10) NOT NULL, `username` VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL, `date` INT(10) NOT NULL, `postid` INT(10) NOT NULL) "); $db->query_write("ALTER TABLE `". TABLE_PREFIX ."post_thanks` ADD INDEX ( `postid` )"); $db->query_write("ALTER TABLE `". TABLE_PREFIX ."user` ADD `post_thanks_user_amount` INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL"); $db->query_write("ALTER TABLE `". TABLE_PREFIX ."post` ADD `post_thanks_amount` INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL"); $db->query_write("ALTER TABLE `". TABLE_PREFIX ."user` ADD `post_thanks_thanked_posts` INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL"); $db->query_write("ALTER TABLE `". TABLE_PREFIX ."user` ADD `post_thanks_thanked_times` INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL");]]>

[coloradomoms]

Installed and Love it!

Is there a way to install this a second time to make it say "hugs" and track separately? Just curious.

ETA - I moved the postbit thingy to make the thanks go next to editpost, but its still under the avatars and stuff. No big deal, just curious as to why it isn't moving. I did the legacy thing and refreshed, cleared cache, etc. still didn't budge. I guess it just wants to hang out over there.