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[AJAX] Post Thank You Hack · **Released**: 12-29-2009

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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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

agentaeon · #**2762** 07-11-2012, 06:30 PM

Attachment 139670

I am using ForceHSS' version of the hack and I have been unable to find any information regarding how to make the box where it says people have thanked for this useful post look like the attached image.

I am using a theme that takes advantage of postbit legacy.

Can someone help?

Thanks.

Hippy · #**2763** 07-11-2012, 06:44 PM

That's because it's a article that BOP5 write look at the post of mine in the first post or my Sig. The link to it is there

Sarteck · #**2764** 07-17-2012, 05:16 PM

I'm wracking my brains trying to figure out how to make this work after moving parts of my vB4 suite to sub-domains (the forums and the blogs).

When we click on Thanks, nothing happens except for the "Thanks" bit disappearing. When the thread is re-loaded, nothing has changed, either.

When we middle-click or otherwise open the "Thanks" in a new Tab/Window, it works fine.

I tried making a post_thanks.php file in my forums sub-directory that has the same stuff most everything else in that directory has:

PHP Code:


			
<?php
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . "/vb_dir.php");
chdir($vb_dir);
require_once($vb_dir . '/' . basename(__FILE__));
?>

But it didn't change a thing. (And here I thought I was being clever. :< )

It worked great before the change to the new sub-domain. It still does not work on a clean Style. I (obviously) haven't tried disabling all my plugins, since this one would be included. XP

Am I missing something?

ForceHSS · #**2765** 07-18-2012, 12:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sarteck

I'm wracking my brains trying to figure out how to make this work after moving parts of my vB4 suite to sub-domains (the forums and the blogs).

When we click on Thanks, nothing happens except for the "Thanks" bit disappearing. When the thread is re-loaded, nothing has changed, either.

When we middle-click or otherwise open the "Thanks" in a new Tab/Window, it works fine.

I tried making a post_thanks.php file in my forums sub-directory that has the same stuff most everything else in that directory has:

PHP Code:


			
<?php

require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . "/vb_dir.php");

chdir($vb_dir);

require_once($vb_dir . '/' . basename(__FILE__));

?>

But it didn't change a thing. (And here I thought I was being clever. :< )

It worked great before the change to the new sub-domain. It still does not work on a clean Style. I (obviously) haven't tried disabling all my plugins, since this one would be included. XP

Am I missing something?

Have you tried removing and reinstalling

Sarteck · #**2766** 07-18-2012, 03:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ForceHSS

Have you tried removing and reinstalling

No, but I did re-download, and re-installed (allowing uploaded files to overwrite the old files) with "Allow Overwrite" set when I imported the XML.

If I remove it, won't that remove the database of Thanks I already have?

Note that Thanking is still possible; one can still "Thank" by opening the thank link itself in a new tab/window. It's just the AJAX that seems to crap out.

ForceHSS · #**2767** 07-18-2012, 04:23 AM

Version you are using and vb version?

ForceHSS · #**2768** 07-18-2012, 04:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sarteck

No, but I did re-download, and re-installed (allowing uploaded files to overwrite the old files) with "Allow Overwrite" set when I imported the XML.

If I remove it, won't that remove the database of Thanks I already have?

Note that Thanking is still possible; one can still "Thank" by opening the thank link itself in a new tab/window. It's just the AJAX that seems to crap out.

You said you moved parts to your sub as I said above to reinstall after removing might fix the problem as some error might of happened after the move. But it is very hard to see without site links and screenshots so can only go by what you say

Sarteck · #**2769** 07-18-2012, 04:34 AM

I'm using 7.84. I -think- I was using 7.83 before I re-installed it, but it might have been 7.84.

vB version is 4.1.11. (Was on 4.1.10, but when we moved stuff to subdomains, there was a bug for going to the first unread post of a thread, and that was fixed in 4.1.11, so we just upgraded last night.)

I have the site on three subdomains, basically. Normal content (including CMS) is on the plain old www.domain, forums are on forums.domain, and blogs (not that it matters) are on blogs.domain.

What I "moved," well, it wasn't really a move. I left everything installed as normal. I then created a new file in my forums sub-directory on the server called post_thanks.php (originally, there was just the one on the main part of the site). I put into it the content you see above (which is the content in most files in stub directories like mine).

I will install this onto my clean testing forum tonight (I split it into sub-domains as well not too long ago), and see if the problem persists.

ForceHSS · #**2770** 07-18-2012, 04:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sarteck

I'm using 7.84. I -think- I was using 7.83 before I re-installed it, but it might have been 7.84.

vB version is 4.1.11. (Was on 4.1.10, but when we moved stuff to subdomains, there was a bug for going to the first unread post of a thread, and that was fixed in 4.1.11, so we just upgraded last night.)

I have the site on three subdomains, basically. Normal content (including CMS) is on the plain old www.domain, forums are on forums.domain, and blogs (not that it matters) are on blogs.domain.

What I "moved," well, it wasn't really a move. I left everything installed as normal. I then created a new file in my forums sub-directory on the server called post_thanks.php (originally, there was just the one on the main part of the site). I put into it the content you see above (which is the content in most files in stub directories like mine).

I will install this onto my clean testing forum tonight (I split it into sub-domains as well not too long ago), and see if the problem persists.

Why not have it on the one domain like all other forums. Well the problem could be because of ur setup. I am sure with a bit of recoding you can fix

Sarteck · #**2771** 07-18-2012, 07:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ForceHSS

Why not have it on the one domain like all other forums. Well the problem could be because of ur setup. I am sure with a bit of recoding you can fix

...because it's how I have my forum set up...? O.o

You do realize that vBulletin 4.1+ allows for subdomains to separate blogs, forums, and CMS, yeah?

ANYways, back to the issue.

I altered the post_thanks.js to have the following function changed:

Code:

var post_thanks_handleFailure = function(o)
{
	if(o.responseText !== undefined)
	{
		alert(o.responseText);
	}
	else {console.debug("Here is the request object (failed): %o", o);}
}

When debugging, the response I get is:

Code:

Here is the request object (failed): Object { tId=1, status=0, statusText="communication failure"}

Ah, fixed it.

That new post_thanks.php that I put up in my forums stub directory, I put that back in, and THEN I prefixed the "sUrl" in each of the three functions with PATHS.forum+'/'. (Full code will follow at the end of this post.)

Thanks is now working just fine.

Code:

/*======================================*\
|| #################################### ||
|| # Post Thank You Hack version 7.84 # ||
|| # Original version by Abe1         # ||
|| # Updated by Forcehss              # ||
|| #################################### ||
\*======================================*/
var post_thanks_base_url = PATHS.forum+'/';
var post_thanks_handleSuccess = function(o)
{
	if(o.responseText !== undefined)
	{
		if (post_thanks_callback.object_name[o.tId] !== undefined)
		{
			fetch_object(post_thanks_callback.object_name[o.tId]).innerHTML = o.responseText;
		}
	}
}
var post_thanks_handleFailure = function(o)
{
	if(o.responseText !== undefined)
	{
		alert(o.responseText);
	}
	else {console.debug("Here is the request object (failed): %o", o);}
}
var post_thanks_callback =
{
	success: post_thanks_handleSuccess,
	failure: post_thanks_handleFailure,
	timeout: vB_Default_Timeout,
	cache: false,
	object_name: new Array()
};
function post_thanks_give(postid, integrate)
{
	fetch_object('post_thanks_button_' + postid).style.display = 'none';
	fetch_object('post_thanks_separator_' + postid).style.display = 'none';

	if (integrate == true)
	{
		fetch_object('post_groans_button_' + postid).style.display = 'none';
	}

	var sUrl = post_thanks_base_url + 'post_thanks.php';
	var postData = 'do=post_thanks_add&using_ajax=1&p=' + postid + '&securitytoken=' + SECURITYTOKEN;

	var request = YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest('POST', sUrl, post_thanks_callback, postData);

	post_thanks_callback.object_name[request.tId] = 'post_thanks_box_' + postid;

	fetch_object('post_thanks_box_' + postid).style.display = '';

	return false;
}
function post_thanks_remove_all(postid, integrate)
{
	var sUrl = post_thanks_base_url + 'post_thanks.php';
	var postData = 'do=post_thanks_remove_all&using_ajax=1&p=' + postid + '&securitytoken=' + SECURITYTOKEN;

	var request = YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest('POST', sUrl, post_thanks_callback, postData);

	post_thanks_callback.object_name[request.tId] = 'post_thanks_box_' + postid;

	fetch_object('post_thanks_button_' + postid).style.display = ''
	fetch_object('post_thanks_separator_' + postid).style.display = '';

	if (integrate == true)
	{
		fetch_object('post_groans_button_' + postid).style.display = '';
	}

	fetch_object('post_thanks_box_' + postid).style.display = 'none';

	return false;
}
function post_thanks_remove_user(postid, integrate)
{
	var sUrl = post_thanks_base_url + 'post_thanks.php';
	var postData = 'do=post_thanks_remove_user&using_ajax=1&p=' + postid + '&securitytoken=' + SECURITYTOKEN;

	var request = YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest('POST', sUrl, post_thanks_callback, postData);

	post_thanks_callback.object_name[request.tId] = 'post_thanks_box_' + postid;

	fetch_object('post_thanks_button_' + postid).style.display = ''
	fetch_object('post_thanks_separator_' + postid).style.display = '';

	if (integrate == true)
	{
		fetch_object('post_groans_button_' + postid).style.display = '';
	}

	fetch_object('post_thanks_box_' + postid).style.display = 'none';

	return false;	
}

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