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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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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[Abe1]

Originally Posted by carrlos

Which counters do I run??

All 4

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by garretbyrne

I've just noticed a problem on my side. When I click thanks on a user it shows up as thanks: 1 for everyone.. then when I go into a thread that has a few people the thanks below the image doubles for every user..

So If i was 1: there would be one thanks, 2: post thee would be two thanks, 3: post there would be 3 thanks.. if it's not clear I'll attach a photo.

Another hack must be messing up the template hooks. Disable each one separately and see which one it is.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by I.am

After to have updated User Titles and Ranks and Rebuild Thread Information on my site some of my members now they have a weird numbers of total thanks:

Total Thanks
Total Thanks: 4,294,967,295

I have tried to use the Recounters function but without success.

How can I fix it?

I would have to check your database. I idea why.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by SemperFideles

I have the Thanks System successfully installed and working but I cannot find where the user can search for Thanked Posts. It used to be in the Profile Statistics and Advanced Search Options but I cannot find it anywhere.

Check post 2 in this thread.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by tafreeh

hey there... i just update my test forum(vb4) to the latest version and i get db errors.so i disabled it...

but when i get back to my live production site which is 3.8.4 i m still getting the same db errors everywhere... and i m using 7.7 overthere... it was working .. now all of sudden it producing errors...

here is the copy of one of the error...

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.4:

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

MySQL Error  : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') ORDER BY post_thanks.username ASC' at line 1
Error Number  : 1064
Request Date  : Saturday, January 2nd 2010 @ 03:00:19 AM
Error Date    : Saturday, January 2nd 2010 @ 03:00:19 AM
Script        : http://www.xxxxx.com/ebooks-tutorials/33731-panther-vs-t-34-ukraine-1943-duel.html
Referrer      : 
IP Address    : xx.xx.xx.xx
Username      : Unregistered
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

The files were changed between version. make sure you are using the 7.7 version files for 7.7 version.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by SemperFideles

I tried to manually add a Post Thanks Search to a Member's Profile page as following:

PHP Code:

<li><a href="post_thanks.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=findthanks&amp;userid={vb:raw userinfo.userid}">Find all Thanked Posts</a></li> 


I believe your findthanks and find_user_thanks functions within post_thanks.php are not properly functioning as it returns a dB error for the search function.

Well it was disabled for a reason...

[aj8690]

I didn't like the images that came with so I made new ones. If anyone wants them, here they are.

[TimberFloorAu]

Originally Posted by aj8690

I didn't like the images that came with so I made new ones. If anyone wants them, here they are.

Superb !!!! Thanks

[aj8690]

Originally Posted by Abe1

r you sure in uploaded every file into the right spot??

I am having this issue where the page reloads also, so I don't think it's that the files are not uploaded correctly (I tried reuploading). Could it be that I am using legacy?

Originally Posted by TimberFloorAu

Superb !!!! Thanks

No problem.

[Verionia]

Originally Posted by valendono

Its work ! Thanks.

Thanks this worked!