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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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

The mod is currently unsupported and without reusable code...

Maybe some one got the permissions to keep this alive but so far no info at all.

[popcornic]

Originally Posted by riskofficer

I've got the same question, default table too big, and default font too huge.


Why is this mod not supported now? Whats wrong?

I'd also like to know how to change/reduce the size of the font in the
"The Following X Users Say Thank You to Y For This Useful Post:"

Once there are several thanks in one page it becomes a nuisance.

[djbaxter]

Change font size (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=560 ):

In post_thanks_postbit find:

<h2 class="<vb:if condition="!$vboptions['legacypostbit']">post</vb:if>title">

If you're using the legacy (vertical) postbit template: change the word "title" to "bitlegacy"

Otherwise change the word "title" to "content".


Align Left (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...50#post1993250 ):

Below is what I have in my post_thanks_postbit_info file and we've no alignment issues anymore

You want to set the 3 lines to be {vb:stylevar left}

<vb:if condition="$post['userid']">
	<dt>{vb:rawphrase post_thanks_thanks}</dt> <dd>{vb:raw post.post_thanks_user_amount_formatted}</dd>
	<vb:if condition="$post['post_thanks_thanked_times'] == 1">
		<dd style="white-space:nowrap; display:inline; float: {vb:stylevar left};">{vb:rawphrase post_thanks_time_post}</dd>
	<vb:elseif condition="$post['post_thanks_thanked_posts'] == 1" />
		<dd style="white-space:nowrap; display:inline; float: {vb:stylevar left};">{vb:rawphrase post_thanks_times_post, {vb:raw post.post_thanks_thanked_times_formatted}}</dd>
	<vb:else />
		<dd style="white-space:nowrap; display:inline; float: {vb:stylevar left};">{vb:rawphrase post_thanks_times_posts, {vb:raw post.post_thanks_thanked_times_formatted}, {vb:raw post.post_thanks_thanked_posts_formatted}}</dd>
	</vb:if>
</vb:if>

[popcornic]

Thanks but I've already tried the change to "title"/"bitlegacy" and it's not a good solution for me.

I wanted to know if there's any way to make the changes more flexible, for example:

- Smaller font that is bold
- Different color
- Different font (Times, Calibri, Verdana etc.)

[popcornic]

Originally Posted by popcornic

Thanks but I've already tried the change to "title"/"bitlegacy" and it's not a good solution for me.

I wanted to know if there's any way to make the changes more flexible, for example:

- Smaller font that is bold
- Different color
- Different font (Times, Calibri, Verdana etc.)

Bump

[vikris]

Originally Posted by FractalizeR

Anyone have the function of finding all thanked posts working without database errors?

I hope this will be worked up. The workaround posted: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=762 is with very limited functionality

[grc]

Originally Posted by vikris

I hope this will be worked up. The workaround posted: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=762 is with very limited functionality

I agree. When I stumbled upon the workaround I hoped it was very temporary.

I'm not a coder and when I looked at Abe's code for the search function I could tell what was going on, but trying to modify it to work with vB4 is way beyond my capability.

I hope someone will be interested in continuing this project. It's one of the top ranked mods on vb.org and it's a real shame to see it go away.

[War.Frog]

Abe1 is back and has released some new mods, so hopefully he'll revisit this for fixes.

[Dave-M]

Does anyone know how to make the "thanked by" box smaller? I've done the fixes in this thread to make the font smaller and not bold, but the box is still mahoosive!

Thanks.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by War.Frog

Abe1 is back and has released some new mods, so hopefully he'll revisit this for fixes.

Yes, I am back ... at least for now. Every time I looked at the search code vb has now, I curse them out. vB, has totally re-written most of it's code. Not just the search, but almost every part of the code is a mess. Everything use to be so clean and neat. Now everything is all over the place and written on a level that most PHP developers would need hours to understand.

Will the search come back? I dont know. I blocked out the old search which doesn't work now and when I'm in an already bad mood, maybe i'll take another peak.

I release some of my other hacks so I can get my feet wet. Hopefully it will work.