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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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

NOTE: *** Offer for paid services removed ***

[kiawah75]

I have installed the hack and it works well. In the features section of the product it says you can search for Thanks in the user profile. I would like to recognize our members who have been thanked the most - How do I get a list of them. I checked the admin panel and the search function on the forum and could not find it. Thanks in advance for your help.

[michal72]

Originally Posted by kiawah75

I would like to recognize our members who have been thanked the most - How do I get a list of them.

I use VSa - Advanced Forum Statistics mod + search fix: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1534

[michal72]

For information:

Now, this mod works also via Tapatalk

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by kiawah75

I have installed the hack and it works well. In the features section of the product it says you can search for Thanks in the user profile. I would like to recognize our members who have been thanked the most - How do I get a list of them. I checked the admin panel and the search function on the forum and could not find it. Thanks in advance for your help.

users profile (About Me) has the links to view them

[addamroy]

So how exactly do i upgrade from the version abe1 provided to the new version provided at post 1737?

There's no clear instructions on how to do the upgrade. Am I supposed to upload and overwrite ALL files or just the xml product via the vbulletin admincp?

Also, will this effect any of my existing post thanks data? I don't want to lose any of my existing thanks data by accidentally uploading the wrong files.

Please provide me with a step-by-step process I can follow to ensure it goes smoothly??

Thanks!

[Hippy]

upload all files overwriting them and import the xml file ... allow over write..

[NarutoFTW]

Anyone know how to prevent the thanks count from being exploited? it seems pretty easy and a lot of users are doing it.

[kiawah75]

Originally Posted by Hippy

users profile (About Me) has the links to view them

Thanks Hippy, but I was hoping to run a report that would show the information so I would not have to go into each user profile

[kiawah75]

Originally Posted by michal72

I use VSa - Advanced Forum Statistics mod + search fix: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1534

Thanks Michal I will look at this the forum stats mod looks great I just dont like to mess with the code on the search fix

[shyguy82]

The developer of this mod should optimize his code a little bit. His queries are very expensive. There is an INDEX missing on the USERNAME field in post_thanks table. I found it the hard way, I have a pretty busy site with 250k users. My post_thanks contains more than 3 million records already and the performance was sluggish. I've checked the query and it was doing a full table scan because he is ordering by username. I've added an index on username column and the problem goes away. Just an FYI