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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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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[BrightStar]

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.5:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT post_thanks.postid AS postid
FROM _forumpost_thanks AS post_thanks
LEFT JOIN _forumpost AS post USING (postid)
INNER JOIN _forumthread AS thread ON(thread.threadid = post.threadid)
WHERE post_thanks.userid = 29
AND thread.forumid IN(3,4,5,28,34,35,36,37,38,6,39,7,9,8,13,22,23,32, 43,42,40,41,10,11,12,18,29,19, 21,31,17,30,20,14,16,25,33,26,27,15,24)
ORDER BY post.dateline DESC
LIMIT 1000;

MySQL Error : Table 'homeforum_forum._forumpost_thanks' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Tuesday, July 27th 2010 @ 01:08:19 PM
Error Date : Tuesday, July 27th 2010 @ 01:08:19 PM
Script : http://www.homeforum.org/forum/post_...user_gave&u=29
Referrer :
IP Address : 195.62.212.79
Username : Admin
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.90-community

Any idea how to fix the error after uninstalling this mod?

Thanks

[coloradomoms]

is it possible to have this hack in twice? once as thanks and once again where I rename the phrases to Hugs?

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by coloradomoms

is it possible to have this hack in twice? once as thanks and once again where I rename the phrases to Hugs?

Eewwwww.....

[midnz]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

Eewwwww.....

Originally Posted by coloradomoms

is it possible to have this hack in twice? once as thanks and once again where I rename the phrases to Hugs?

Yes but you'd have to go through each file and change all of the references from thanks to hugs before installing.
A mate of mine edited an earlier version of Post_Thanks to give us a Post_Lol hack on vB 3.6. I've tried to do the same with this current version of Post_Thanks but viewers were unable to view the username of those who had Lol'd their posts for some reason. Apart from that everything else worked as it should. I'm still trying to work it out for myself .

[coloradomoms]

I know, but I run a board for moms and we like to hug a lot. LOL

I tried it but it just changed all thanks to hugs, not installing it twice, just over writing it. Not a big deal. I tried installing the other thanks/like hack but it annihilated my admincp. Just got that back working and leaving it with this hack once for now.

Thanks!

[sulasno]

is it possible to run a query to determine who has given and receive 100 Thanks?

[JIMBOND27]

Would I be able to put the "thanks" on the right side of the posts, so it is more visible?

[Afsoul]

Originally Posted by JIMBOND27

Would I be able to put the "thanks" on the right side of the posts, so it is more visible?

Yeah I have the same thoughts with JIMBOND2, can we put the "thanks" on the right side of posts?

Thx before

[vivamexico55]

Getting an error on 4.06

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.6:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM post_thanks AS post_thanks INNER JOIN user AS user USING (userid) WHERE post_thanks.postid IN (0Array) ORDER BY post_thanks.username ASC;

MySQL Error : Unknown column '0Array' in 'where clause'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Thursday, August 12th 2010 @ 05:45:08 PM

Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.85-community

[Victor S]

Originally Posted by vivamexico55

Getting an error on 4.06

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.6:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM post_thanks AS post_thanks INNER JOIN user AS user USING (userid) WHERE post_thanks.postid IN (0Array) ORDER BY post_thanks.username ASC;

MySQL Error : Unknown column '0Array' in 'where clause'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Thursday, August 12th 2010 @ 05:45:08 PM

Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.85-community

It works fine on 4.0.5 for me. Can anyone else confirm that it actually breaks with 4.0.6...?