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.

[garretbyrne]

i have.. I've gone with default and added in the cat number also but either don't work.. i've also updated to the latest.. cheers

[mandingo]

Everything's working great Ted, thanks.

[SpongeBob71]

This worked fine in the beginning. As soon as I changed a few options, I recieved this error message on all my threads:

"html/forum/includes/class_postbit.php(314) : eval()'d code on line 276"

Any ideas? This would be an incredible mod for my forums.

Thanks in advance,

Sponge

[mandingo]

When I click the notification it links to /profile.php?do=helpfulans, the page is blank.

[Greight]

I can now choose plus minus but not arrows. When I select arrows, instead thumbs up/down is used.

[gyaronn]

Fatal error: Call to a member function query_first_slave() on a non-object in /home/fmsasorg/public_html/forums1/includes/class_postbit.php(314) : eval()'d code on line 196

Originally Posted by Ted S

Where do you get this error? Makes it much easier to fix things when there's more context. Thanks!

I get that error when I click on any thread.

Thanks.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SpongeBob71

This worked fine in the beginning. As soon as I changed a few options, I recieved this error message on all my threads:


"html/forum/includes/class_postbit.php(314) : eval()'d code on line 276"

Any ideas? This would be an incredible mod for my forums.


Thanks in advance,


Sponge

Thanks for reporting this issue but I need more information than that there was an error... What options did you change? What page did you see this on? Before voting or after?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by gyaronn

I get that error when I click on any thread.

Thanks.

Thanks. What are your settings?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by mandingo

When I click the notification it links to /profile.php?do=helpfulans, the page is blank.

This will be fixed in 2.1.2

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Greight

I can now choose plus minus but not arrows. When I select arrows, instead thumbs up/down is used.

Demands, demands, demands.

Will get this updated in the next day or so.