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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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

Originally Posted by zews

I can also confirm this issue with database errors:

post_thanks.php?do=findthanks&u=XXXX

REPLACE INTO search

MySQL Error : Table 'XXXX.search' doesn't exist

Is this a bug in this mod that should be fixed?

Same here. Disabled plugin for the time being. People love this plugin, so members are a bit disappointed.

[100]

DEAR

ARE YOU MAKE "Moderator Statistics HAK" FOR VB4?

I NEED THIS

THANK YOU

[MikQuattro]

Originally Posted by cmeinck

Same here. Disabled plugin for the time being. People love this plugin, so members are a bit disappointed.

Same here, and my members are also disappointed. This mod is listed as supported, but the author hasn't been on for 2 1/2 weeks..WTH?

[Rob F]

I've now installed this on my test forums, edited the necessary templates to move the thanks button to the right and get the alignment correct for the Thanked X Times In X Posts. All seems to be working as I'd expect it to

Just 1 quick question though - does anyone know if its possible to edit the size of the text in the Thanks box below a post? It just looks huge to me so I was thinking it might look a lot neater if I could set it to font size 1.

I'm referring to the entire box where it says "The following X users say thank you for this post" followed by the list of users.

[MixMakers]

Originally Posted by ryacine

Hello mates,



Where can we disable this, please?

My page refreshes although I don't have the post groan hack installed.

[grc]

Originally Posted by Rob F

Just 1 quick question though - does anyone know if its possible to edit the size of the text in the Thanks box below a post? It just looks huge to me so I was thinking it might look a lot neater if I could set it to font size 1.

I'm referring to the entire box where it says "The following X users say thank you for this post" followed by the list of users.

I've posted the same suggestion. It seems to me that it would be better to have the Thanks in a smaller font.

[Rob F]

Totally agree grc. It just looks too big as it is.

Don't think I'll be installing on live site until I can make it smaller. Shame, as it seems to work perfectly for me.

[Trek]

Postbit data isn't correct:

Thanks 2
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

Not sure what the deal is here but you can see the thanks counter is 2, which is correct, but the line under it is incorrect.

Also, in the user profile, I don't have anything that'll allow me to view what threads were thanked, etc. I remember this being possible before. Anyone have any ideas?

[Rob F]

Trek -

Thanks 2 refers to the amount of thanks a user has given to others
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts is the amount of thanks a user has recieved

[Trek]

Originally Posted by Rob F

Trek -

Thanks 2 refers to the amount of thanks a user has given to others
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts is the amount of thanks a user has recieved

Ahh ok, that makes sense, thanks! I ran this for 3.8 and that was good, but when I upgraded to vb4 I lost all of my stats for it. Anyway, good deal, thanks again for the info!