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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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

NOTE: *** Offer for paid services removed ***

[Filgga]

Originally Posted by Chase

Can someone confirm if this works on 4.1.2? I will be upgrading from 3.8.4

Works perfectly, please DISABLE ALL plugins while upgrading. Do a backup either

[del Drago]

Hey guys,

The creator of this mod, Abe, seems to have vanished. Would it be possible for another team of coders to take charge of this mod and keep it updated?

[Phaedrus]

Originally Posted by del Drago

Hey guys,

The creator of this mod, Abe, seems to have vanished. Would it be possible for another team of coders to take charge of this mod and keep it updated?

If I can figure out how to make this one work like it should I'll post a new Mod on it, if anybody else figures it out before me, they should do the same. The only function that I can't get to work and so keep rem'd out (the author rem'd them out, they caused issues) are the search functions.

[Hippy]

I posted fixes for this mod .. all is working but the search who thanked..was posted that it was taken out till it was figured out..
I don't know what else is not working .. vb4.1.3 beta

[Phaedrus]

Originally Posted by Hippy

I posted fixes for this mod .. all is working but the search who thanked..was posted that it was taken out till it was figured out..
I don't know what else is not working .. vb4.1.3 beta

No, that's it. I posted one that I changed just a fraction in order to integrate it with the post groans hack. I think I have them down now, but for some reason the groans don't all display on my site. Once I work that out I'll post both of them together so that everybody can have fully functional thanks/groans with integration.

I have it set now so that you hit one button it shuts the other off, etc. I just need to be sure that the groans will show up like they are supposed to every time somebody clicks groan... If anybody wants both hacks, with the integration, to test out somewhere PM me and I'll set you up... It will help if I get some feedback.

[vitrag24]

Is this mod integrated with any mod like "Thanks to unhide content in thread/post"?

[karlm]

1. This product is not compatible with version 4.1.2 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 4.0.0 beta 4 / Incompatible with 4.1.0 alpha 1 and greater)

I was hoping to make use of this hack ...

[CypherHackz]

Same here... The product is not compatible with 4.1.2.

-cypher.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by karlm

I was hoping to make use of this hack ...

Originally Posted by CypherHackz

Same here... The product is not compatible with 4.1.2.

-cypher.

Open product_post_thanks.xml in a plain text editor.

At line 14 - 16, FIND:

PHP Code:

    <dependencies>
        <dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="4.0.0 beta 4" maxversion="4.1.0 alpha 1" />
    </dependencies> 


CHANGE TO:

PHP Code:

    <dependencies>
        <dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="4.0.0 beta 4" maxversion="4.99" />
    </dependencies> 


[addamroy]

I've had this mod installed for a while now, but there are now links in user profiles to threads thanked by user, and thanked threads by user.

Am I supposed to do something extra to display these links in user profiles?

It says in the user profiles how many times the user has been thanked and in how many threads, but no links to thanked posts as described in the mod.

Advice?