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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Dream

Abe1, donated $20 because of the usefulness of this mod in my boards for all this time that I used it. My members like it, I like it and it's very very much more useful than the standard reputation system. cheers, gj and thanks for updating it.

*Abe1 clicks Thanx

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by gbechtel

The mod causing the above mentioned duplication problem is this one...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=228673

Disabled and working fine now....

This hack is also playing with the template hooks like they are his.

Go into his postbit_display_complete plugin and remove

global $template_hook;
$template_hook['memberaction_dropdown_items'] = "";

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by sigh

We are also having this problem, as quoted. Every time a user clicks the "Thanks" button the page reloads. I don't think this is intended behaviour - any suggestions on fixing it?

We are using vB4 PL1, default style with some colour modifications.

Thanks!

r you sure in uploaded every file into the right spot??

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by S4RFamily

I see that the mod have 2 buttons image but i dont see it when installed. Just "Thank" text
How enable it, master

You have to add the image to each style in FTP.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Veer

I can't see Thank Image when I use postbit_legacy on default vb4 style. Any help?

Wait for next version.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by garretbyrne

I've tried to install but came across an issue.. I had this mod back in 3.8.4 and my members love it was being well used.. but had to uninstall all the mods because of an issue upgrading to 4 (I'm aware I might have lost previous thanks count) but now when I install I get an SQL error..

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Database error in vBulletin 4.0.0:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE `user` ADD `post_thanks_user_amount` INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL;

MySQL Error : Duplicate column name 'post_thanks_user_amount'
Error Number : 1060
Request Date : Thursday, December 31st 2009 @ 06:06:50 PM
Error Date : Thursday, December 31st 2009 @ 06:06:51 PM
Script : http://www.irishparanormal.org/admin...=productimport
Referrer : http://www.irishparanormal.org/admin...?do=productadd
IP Address : 79.97.12.86
Username : Garret
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.85-community
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Is there any ideas on how to fix this?? Because I really like this thanks..

Manually removed the "post_thanks_user_amount" column from the 'user' table using phpmyadmin

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by dodgeboard.com

Any updates on the post groan addition to this?

We use this hack a little differently on our forums. I had converted the phrases to AGREE (for post thanks) and DISAGREE (for post groan).

This allowed other members of the forums to agree or disagree on a topic without actually cluttering the forums with short posts.

Worked very well.

I would install and support this hack, once the other half is available.

Thanks for all your work thus far.

I first want to iron out post thanks hack.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by huuquynh

Sometime, I got this error:

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.0:

Invalid SQL:

REPLACE INTO vb_search (userid, ipaddress, personal, searchuser, forumchoice, sortby, sortorder, searchtime, showposts, orderedids, dateline, displayterms, searchhash)
VALUES (0, '67.195.112.188', 1, 'Clue', '', 'post.dateline', 'DESC', 0.00284, 1, '1364950,1364429,1364397', 1262286103, 'a:6:{s:5:\"words\";a:0:{}s:9:\"highlight\";a:0:{} s:6:\"common\";a:0:{}s:5:\"users\";a:1:{i:1587;s:4 :\"Clue\";}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\";}}', '5ccd1105ee3bae40ab83b817fe6f2f0a');

MySQL Error : Table 'my_forum.vb_search' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Friday, January 1st 2010 @ 02:01:43 AM
Error Date : Friday, January 1st 2010 @ 02:01:43 AM
Script : http://mydomain.com/post_thanks.php?...er_gave&u=1587

What is wrong? I can not find the table vb_search in my forum's database.

Correct. Search was changed in vb 4.0 I removed the search features for post thanks hack. You must have old links still.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by barcena

Do I have to use FTP to install this mod or only the XML file will do it?

Thanks in advance

You need FTP to add all the files.

[TimberFloorAu]

Why arent my thanked posts showing up in reputation received in usercp. ?