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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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

[Videx]

Originally Posted by Breakthecycle2

This seems to not work in 4.1.8.



The following dependencies were not met:
This product is not compatible with version 4.1.8 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 4.0.0 beta 4 / Incompatible with 4.1.0 alpha 1 and greater)

Go to the upper right and select "Search this mod" - for a distinct word like "dependencies".

Since this question has now been asked and answered over 10 million times, we can no longer keep lengthening the thread by simply repeating the answer. It's more productive to teach people how to find the answer on their own.

[terminator2k2]

Originally Posted by HondaStreetCult

Need help... I am trying to change the "The Following 10 Users Say Thank You to Mervin For This Useful Post: " to something else. Can anyone help me and tell me where i can do this?

go to the ACP -> Languages & Phrases -> Phrase Manager -> Phrase Type: Global -> Phrase: post_thanks_users_say

[uninvited13th]

Originally Posted by Breakthecycle2

This seems to not work in 4.1.8.



The following dependencies were not met:
This product is not compatible with version 4.1.8 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 4.0.0 beta 4 / Incompatible with 4.1.0 alpha 1 and greater)

edit xml..

<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="4.0.0 beta 4" maxversion="4.1.99" />

[ballbrk]

Hi I made a small change in the file post_thanks.php , . I change ORDER BY post.dateline to ORDER BY post.postid.

This will increase the performance of the plugin .. as you can read in http://articles.digitalpoint.com/con...ze-vBulletin-4

[ballbrk]

If you want to get an extra performance in post thanks .. you need to edit the file functions_post_thanks.php that is in the Include directory. Search for "SELECT * and change to
"SELECT postid,userid,post_thanks.username,date.

with this change you will reduce the quantity of data that will flow from DB to Webserver and reduce the time

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by ballbrk

If you want to get an extra performance in post thanks .. you need to edit the file functions_post_thanks.php that is in the Include directory. Search for "SELECT * and change to
"SELECT postid,userid,post_thanks.username,date.

with this change you will reduce the quantity of data that will flow from DB to Webserver and reduce the time

can you be a little more specific on the code to change ..
there are a few SELECT * there


thanks for the info.

[MaXimus]

this mod hasn't been updated in ages

[Gursimran]

Hello, I am getting vBulletin Database Error in my vBulletin 4.1.8
I guess it is because of this mod, so please help

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.8:

Invalid SQL:

                       REPLACE INTO vb_search (userid, ipaddress, personal, searchuser, forumchoice, sortby, sortorder, searchtime, showposts, orderedids, dateline, displayterms, searchhash)
                       VALUES (0, '66.249.67.241', 1, 'bolt', '', 'post.dateline', 'DESC', 0.01879, 1, '34343,34170,34099,34098,34001,32857,31791,30741,30690,30373,30364,30363,30295,29159,28855,27126,25771,24767,23328,22923,22699,16141,16140,7728,3268,3203,3005,2914', 1322860031, 'a:6:{s:5:\"words\";a:0:{}s:9:\"highlight\";a:0:{}s:6:\"common\";a:0:{}s:5:\"users\";a:1:{i:4255;s:4:\"bolt\";}s:6:\"forums\";i:0;s:7:\"options\";a:3:{s:11:\"starteronly\";i:0;s:11:\"childforums\";i:1;s:6:\"action\";s:7:\"process\";}}', 'f573a426109978edf2b2fd3a4f226f4d');

MySQL Error : Table '****_vb.vb_search' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Friday, December 2nd 2011 @ 02:07:11 PM
Error Date : Friday, December 2nd 2011 @ 02:07:11 PM
Script : http://www.*****.info/forum/post_tha...er_gave&u=4255
Referrer :
IP Address : ********
Username : Unregistered
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

[ballbrk]

Originally Posted by Hippy

can you be a little more specific on the code to change ..
there are a few SELECT * there


thanks for the info.

Yes sorry ... the modification is in includes/function_post_thanks.php ... you can see two SELECT * in the function fetch_thanks . I made some test and reduce the time of those SQL from 0.17s to 0.07s .

[ballbrk]

Originally Posted by Gursimran

Hello, I am getting vBulletin Database Error in my vBulletin 4.1.8
I guess it is because of this mod, so please help

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.8:

Invalid SQL:

                       REPLACE INTO vb_search (userid, ipaddress, personal, searchuser, forumchoice, sortby, sortorder, searchtime, showposts, orderedids, dateline, displayterms, searchhash)
                       VALUES (0, '66.249.67.241', 1, 'bolt', '', 'post.dateline', 'DESC', 0.01879, 1, '34343,34170,34099,34098,34001,32857,31791,30741,30690,30373,30364,30363,30295,29159,28855,27126,25771,24767,23328,22923,22699,16141,16140,7728,3268,3203,3005,2914', 1322860031, 'a:6:{s:5:\"words\";a:0:{}s:9:\"highlight\";a:0:{}s:6:\"common\";a:0:{}s:5:\"users\";a:1:{i:4255;s:4:\"bolt\";}s:6:\"forums\";i:0;s:7:\"options\";a:3:{s:11:\"starteronly\";i:0;s:11:\"childforums\";i:1;s:6:\"action\";s:7:\"process\";}}', 'f573a426109978edf2b2fd3a4f226f4d');

MySQL Error : Table '****_vb.vb_search' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Friday, December 2nd 2011 @ 02:07:11 PM
Error Date : Friday, December 2nd 2011 @ 02:07:11 PM
Script : http://www.*****.info/forum/post_tha...er_gave&u=4255
Referrer :
IP Address : ********
Username : Unregistered
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

The problem that the table vb_search don't exist... maybe you deleted or changed the name.