Add-On Releases - [AJAX] Helpful Answers - Allow users to rate individual posts

Helpful Answers has been used to record over 6 MILLION times on more than 2,000 forums. If you're not using HA your users are looking for it!

Every day your users contribute hundreds if not thousands of posts making it hard for new members and guests to separate out the best answers from those that are less helpful. The Helpful Answers System offers your members a quick way to rate individual posts as either helpful or not allowing future visitors to understand the value of each post.

Designed to be flexible, HA has over 30 configurable settings:

• Use image or text ratings AJAX or traditional links.
• Offer yes/no or scaled 1-10 point ranking.
• Turn off negative ratings for a positive only system.
• Decide which forums are open for helpful answer ratings.
• Audit the system and identify top users and potential abusers.
• Ban specific members from using the system.
• Customize the message shown after a post is rated.
• Show a page with the top helpful posts.
• Show rating stats on a user's profile.
• Hide posts that rate "too low"
• Template driven so you can customize it all for your forum.

For advanced users template conditionals and variables let you further extend the functionality to color highlight good or bad posts, include ratings in user?s profiles and much more.

Modification Installation [Must Read]:

Step 1: Upload the addon files found in the upload/ folder to your forum directory
Step 2: Install the plugin through your vB Administration area
Step 3: Configure settings & enable the mod in individual forums

You must configure settings & enable forums before voting will show up.
Anonymous Stats Tracking (optional):

By default this addon will pass basic rating data (positive or negative) to a 3rd party site for statistical purposes. Only the most basic data is captured (the vote and your site name) and no user information or specific forum details are logged, not even an IP address. You can disable this through the admin.

Mod Philosophy -- Drive Your Own Success:

All of my mods are inspired by my work in digital marketing and are designed to drive registrations, interaction or other engagement activities the core platform does not address.

Each is designed to fit a general need by providing a starting point but it's on you to decide how to make things work to their best possible outcome. Feel free to suggest what you'd like to see next but don't wait to have what everyone else has; figure out what your forum needs and customize away.

[SilverBoy]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Alter the hook forumdisplay_query_threadid and add

echo "option enabled";

after

if($foruminfo['helpfulanswerbits'] AND $foruminfo['helpfulanswerorderbits']){

If the option is properly enabled, this message will show up with you view the page.

do you mean it will sort the threads in forumdisplay page according to the votes?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SilverBoy

as you said in admin option "If enabled, users will have votes on their posts counted to display in the postbit template, their profile, etc" this option will display the total # of votes in postbit template and in profile, for me it displayed only in profile page, but it not appear in postbit.

It's enabled but not automatically displayed. You have to add the appropriate variable [check post #3 of this thread] to show whatever data you want.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SilverBoy

do you mean it will sort the threads in forumdisplay page according to the votes?

You keep stating that things don't work and then asking what they do which makes it very hard to understand if the feature has a bug or if you simply don't understand it.

The option alters the ranking of posts based on votes.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SilverBoy

I installed it, I get only this line before the header
"debugging...show blockdebugging...show blockdebugging...show blockdebugging...show blockdebugging...show blockdebugging...show blockdebugging...show block "

Strange that it repeats but good that it's getting called.

Check that the template helpful_answers_mosthelp_post exists and that the hook location postbit_end is still in your template if you have modified it.

[SilverBoy]

I don't have template with this name "helpful_answers_mosthelp_post" !!

[SilverBoy]

I rechecked the plugin xml file and I didn't get template with that name in it !!

[systutorials]

Hey Ted S, great mod and was exactly what I was after. Thanks for this. I've installed it today and have read pages of this thread to get the answer i'm after but couldn't find it, or i've missed it along the way, but i'm trying to display the "rated helpful x out of x times" count under the users avatar or under their posts count mini profile within threads ? Was thinking to have some text like "Helpfull Posts: X"

[SilverBoy]

I asked you about this option meaning before "Enable Single Post Voting" and you told me about the description that must be under it, but for me I don't get that description.

so after I checked the plugin file I find that you add "k" letter in add that phrase line that is why it is not work.

I'm talking about this line
"<phrase name="setting_helpans_onevotek_desc" date="0" username="Ted S" version="2.0.5"><![CDATA[If enabled, will only be able to vote on one post in a single thread. <strong>Adds one query to each SHOWTHREAD page.</strong>]]></phrase>"

the phrase name must be "setting_helpans_onevote_desc"

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SilverBoy

I rechecked the plugin xml file and I didn't get template with that name in it !!

You are correct.

We'll add this to the bug list but honestly as no one else has mentioned this since the 4.x version came out, it's not something you'll see added in until our next major update.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by systutorials

Hey Ted S, great mod and was exactly what I was after. Thanks for this. I've installed it today and have read pages of this thread to get the answer i'm after but couldn't find it, or i've missed it along the way, but i'm trying to display the "rated helpful x out of x times" count under the users avatar or under their posts count mini profile within threads ? Was thinking to have some text like "Helpfull Posts: X"

No problem... You can find the variables in post #3 of this thread.

This is a fairly old mod and I can't recall if they're all actually enabled but that's the best place to start.