Show Thread Enhancements - [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack

vB 4.0 version of this hack here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231666

Post Thank You Hack 7.7

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: (If installed on vb 3.7)

• Files edited: 0
• Templates edited: 0
• Files to upload: 7
• Time to install: 1 minute max

Updates:

Version 7.0 (12/20/07):

• Release of this hack for vBulletin version 3.7
• This version works on all vBulletin versions from 3.6.0 and up

Version 7.1 (12/24/07):

• Fixed up the vb3.7 profile block code including fixing showing your info and not the member you are looking at.

Version 7.2 (01/24/08):

• Updated files: post_thanks.php, functions_post_thanks.php
• Updated templates: post_thanks_memberinfo_block, post_thanks_member_info
• New option: Remove User's Thanks Count When Deleting Post
• New phrase: post_thanks_search_user_gave
• FIX User reputation level now updates. (Thanks to liwo for this one.)
• NEW Added option to view all posts a user has thanked.
• FIX Fixed Special Action - Delete All of a Users Thanks
• FIX Should have fixed some 'foreach()' errors.

Version 7.3 (03/15/08):

• Updated file: functions_post_thanks.php
• Updated template: post_thanks_memberinfo_block
• Deleted template: post_thanks_memberinfo_css
• New option: Choice to use Markup Usernames or not. (Thanks to Namaless)
• New option: Ban User from Getting Thanks
• New option: Max Thanks a User can Give Per Day
• FIX Fixed repeating bug on vb 3.6.7 forums.
• CHANGE Changed where the post thanks info shows on the Profile Page. Moved to same box as statistics. (This will require a template edit if you are running vb3.7 beta 2-4)

Version 7.4 (03/21/08):

• FIX: Fixed Profile Stats for vb3.7.0 RC1 users.

Version 7.5 (05/12/08):

• Updated files: post_thanks.js, post_thanks.php, functions_post_thanks.php
• Updated template: post_thanks_button
• Added securty token check for all thanks added. This will prevent a user from giving out a link or somehow making an image that will get him a lot of thanks.
• Should have fixed some 'foreach()' errors.
• Fixed Delete All of a Users Thanks bug
• vBulletin 3.7.x compatible only

Version 7.6 (06/02/08):

• FIX: Fixed Security Check for vb 3.7.1
• Updated files: functions_post_thanks.php

Version 7.7 (07/28/08):

• FIX: Fixed problem with giving thanks using Blazer (palmOS browser).
• Updated file: post_thanks.js
• Updated templates: post_thanks_button, post_thanks_postbit, post_thanks_postbit_legacy
• New option: Show Stats in Postbit?
• New option: Show Stats in Profile?

Please post your comments or suggestions for this hack. I read ALL posts.

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Pictures:

1. Showing the 'thanks' button and stats in Postbit
2. Showing post after 'thanks' (user view)
3. Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
4. Stats in members profile and link
5. Link in Search drop down menu
6. Hacks settings

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Namaless

I have used this code:

PHP Code:

$thanks = $vbulletin->db->query_read("SELECT * FROM " .TABLE_PREFIX. "post_thanks AS ps INNER JOIN " .TABLE_PREFIX. "user AS u ON (u.userid = ps.userid) WHERE ps.postid IN (" . $post_ids . ") ORDER BY ps.username ASC"); 


For query.

For get musername use this method:

PHP Code:

//$cache[$thank['postid']][$thank['userid']]['username'] = $thank['username'];
            // Get vBulletin User Group ID
            $UserGroupID = ( $thank['displaygroupid'] == 0 ) ? 'usergroupid' : 'displaygroupid';
            $cache[$thank['postid']][$thank['userid']]['username'] = fetch_musername($thank, $UserGroupID); 


Without this have 21 queries and after my edit give same 21 queries.

Please check your performance..

Thanks

Done. Will be added in the next version.

One question though. Why did you do the fieldname check? The function does it for you.

[Abe1]

Anyone who has GARS (and getting the PHP error) and can let me view their ACP, please PM me. I can't seem to get the error and I dont want to play around with that hack too much.

[Namaless]

Originally Posted by Abe1

Done. Will be added in the next version.

One question though. Why did you do the fieldname check? The function does it for you.

When you use Secondary group, vbulletin get option to choice group to view.

Test this: go into user admin, and use one primary group and secondary group and save.
Now go to user admin and after primary group you found the vb menu where you choice how group you want to view.

sorry for my english.

Thanks for your support.

[Dabbi]

This is great! I highly prefer this idea to the stars rating and this looks like it's darn close to what I've been looking for.

Is there an easy way (I'm still pretty new to this) for just the number of thanks to go up but not show: the amount of thanks given or the member names of those who have said thank you? Also does the amount of "thanks" for a thread show up in the forum titles like the rating stars do? If it's not possible at this time perhaps in the future?

One last question.. will this slow the board down at all? We have quite a few poky dial up user (myself included) who get really frustrated if something makes the site hang or load slow.

Thank you!

[Namaless]

Originally Posted by Abe1

Anyone who has GARS (and getting the PHP error) and can let me view their ACP, please PM me. I can't seem to get the error and I dont want to play around with that hack too much.

if you want I give you GARS for testing the problem (I'm interest to solution this problem).

For query read only "musername, usergroupid, displaygroupid" for use less memory!

[saman]

Originally Posted by Abe1

Make sure you removed any template edits you made. The current version requires no template edits.

I removed the edits (in posbits) but the thanks (button/option) is still not appearing LINK

[music legend]

i got one question:

is there a way of instead of pressing the button and getting this result:

[hide][*/hide]

is their a way to get this result instead:

[hide]

[*/hide]

any help would be greatly appreciated

[vnairp11]

i wish the hide hack was updated to 3.7

[Namaless]

Originally Posted by vnairp11

i wish the hide hack was updated to 3.7

Hide hack is not supported for now. vbulletin is in beta stage, when release a gold version, check again.
Thanks.

[Datenpapst]

Originally Posted by Datenpapst

When I upload the xml file the thread are not shown any more just getting white pages

*push*

I am using vbb 3.6.6. and it also happens on the default style