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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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

[RedTurtle]

Thanks for the help. Could you point me to where the dimensions for the image are defined? It seems that my icon keeps getting crushed because it may be larger than the stock icons that come with the plugin? Thank you!

Originally Posted by ForceHSS

images\buttons\post_thanks
images\buttons\post_thanks-hover

and this will help with the phrases
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=266358
you can change them to what you wish instead of doing what it says on the above link

[ForceHSS]

both are 16 x 16 pixels

[RedTurtle]

Originally Posted by ForceHSS

both are 16 x 16 pixels

Is it possible that I can make it larger than that? I want to have a rectangular button that says "Thank You" on it, which matches the other buttons I have in my postbit (Quote, Edit, Reply, etc).


EDIT: I got it figured out. The link to the "Likes" conversion system was great. Some of the templates were out of date but it wasn't very hard to modify them. Thank you!

[RedTurtle]

Another question I have for anyone willing to help:

How can I include a space after the comma that shows up when multiple users thank someone's post?

Right now it looks like this:
user1,user2,user3

I would like it to look like this:
user1, user2, user3

Could any of you code wizards help me out please? Thank you!

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by RedTurtle

Another question I have for anyone willing to help:

How can I include a space after the comma that shows up when multiple users thank someone's post?

Right now it looks like this:
user1,user2,user3

I would like it to look like this:
user1, user2, user3

Could any of you code wizards help me out please? Thank you!

post_thanks_box_bit
try adding a

&nbsp

after

;({vb:raw date_thank}

or 2 if you need more space
if you don't have the date turned on add it after

<a href="member.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}u={vb:raw thank.userid}" rel="nofollow">{vb:raw thank.username}</a><

[solohdes]

Can I have notifications with this hack?

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by solohdes

Can I have notifications with this hack?

this mod
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=280109
or this one
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231060

and or both

poke the link in my sig

[vilambara]

Originally Posted by ForceHSS

have you even took the time to read the first post looks like you did not

yes. But it got installed successfully for the previous version.

I read the post #1846 too. But i could nt se anywhere mentioning it was for version 4.1.12.

could you guide me pls?

[ForceHSS]

Originally Posted by vilambara

yes. But it got installed successfully for the previous version.

I read the post #1846 too. But i could nt se anywhere mentioning it was for version 4.1.12.

could you guide me pls?

it works for that version just install

[Hicksatpd]

7 83 installs fine for me on version 4.1.12, but with or without the alleged 'search fix'... I can't do any searched based on thanked posts. I've tried it with both versions of post_thanks.php (the 'normal' one and the one that 'fixes it').

Don't know what's wrong.