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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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

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[iyama]

Originally Posted by meissenation

I fixed the alignment issue by changing the post_thanks_postbit_info template to be the following:

<vb:if condition="$post['userid']">
	<dt>{vb:rawphrase post_thanks_thanks}</dt> <dd>{vb:raw post.post_thanks_user_amount_formatted}</dd>
	<vb:if condition="$post['post_thanks_thanked_times'] == 1">
		<dd style="white-space:nowrap; display:inline; float: {vb:stylevar left};">{vb:rawphrase post_thanks_time_post}</dd>
	<vb:elseif condition="$post['post_thanks_thanked_posts'] == 1" />
		<dd style="white-space:nowrap; display:inline; float: {vb:stylevar left};">{vb:rawphrase post_thanks_times_post, {vb:raw post.post_thanks_thanked_times_formatted}}</dd>
	<vb:else />
		<dd style="white-space:nowrap; display:inline; float: {vb:stylevar left};">{vb:rawphrase post_thanks_times_posts, {vb:raw post.post_thanks_thanked_times_formatted}, {vb:raw post.post_thanks_thanked_posts_formatted}}</dd>
	</vb:if>
</vb:if>

(I changed all the "float: {vb:stylevar right}" to be left.)

If i do that it messed up my First Chief post

[murratti]

when u press the thanks button, it makes u jump to first message...i reinstall it several times, same problem

[garretbyrne]

Hi Murratti we all have the same issue were waiting for the developer to come back online to sort out the issue..

[murratti]

Hello Garret;
i read that developer said that " are u sure about the correct installation" and i m sure about it. i uninstall the previous version, and i deleted all old files and i uploaded new files to right places but still same problems..i have 70.000 registered users and everydays they ask about this hack, i really get bored about this situation. It s disable in my forum now. i m waiting new version of this hack...:

[garretbyrne]

Yea Murratti I've made sure myself and so has a couple of other people so how it's working perfect on the developers site I don't know. But if your like me you must have loads of mods installed and it could easily be anyone of them..

[EDIT] Right I've disabled all my mods and it works perfectly.. So now I'm going through all my mods to see which one is causing the problem..

Right here's even a stranger one for yea, lol I've re enabled all my mods and it still works, lol.. so i guess install mod disable all your mods make sure it works and then re enable should be fine.. Tried in two different browsers.

[murratti]

ohh...please let me know too...regards

[meissenation]

Is anyone else repeatedly getting this DB error message? I have like 119 from today so far...

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.0:

Invalid SQL:

REPLACE INTO search (userid, ipaddress, personal, searchuser, forumchoice, sortby, sortorder, searchtime, showposts, orderedids, dateline, displayterms, searchhash)
VALUES (0, '67.195.37.183', 1, 'MunsterZ28', '', 'post.dateline', 'DESC', 4.84076, 1, '524010,521279,519799,519292,519109,517518,515498, 505436,502610,500870,489282,487137,487125,485781,4 85017,481911,481901,481622,479903,479848,469199,45 4809,453394,450458,447464,445007', 1262976426, 'a:6:{s:5:\"words\";a:0:{}s:9:\"highlight\";a:0:{} s:6:\"common\";a:0:{}s:5:\"users\";a:1:{i:1450;s:1 0:\"MunsterZ28\";}s:6:\"forums\";i:0;s:7:\"options \";a:3:{s:11:\"starteronly\";i:0;s:11:\"childforum s\";i:1;s:6:\"action\";s:7:\"process\";}}', 'acef80fe383e22aa6a945affe4316171');

MySQL Error : Table 'mifbody_vbulletin.search' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Friday, January 8th 2010 @ 06:47:06 PM
Error Date : Friday, January 8th 2010 @ 06:47:11 PM
Script : http://mifbody.com/vbulletin/post_th...dthanks&u=1450
Referrer :
IP Address :
Username : Unregistered
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

[War.Frog]

Originally Posted by garretbyrne

Yea Murratti I've made sure myself and so has a couple of other people so how it's working perfect on the developers site I don't know. But if your like me you must have loads of mods installed and it could easily be anyone of them..

[EDIT] Right I've disabled all my mods and it works perfectly.. So now I'm going through all my mods to see which one is causing the problem..

Right here's even a stranger one for yea, lol I've re enabled all my mods and it still works, lol.. so i guess install mod disable all your mods make sure it works and then re enable should be fine.. Tried in two different browsers.

Are you saying the refresh issue disappeared doing this??

[murratti]

I closed Let Php Live hack, problem solved...

[sigh]

Originally Posted by meissenation

Is anyone else repeatedly getting this DB error message? I have like 119 from today so far...

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.0:

Invalid SQL:

It's Search Bots crawling links they discovered on previous visits.

I used robots.txt to block access to that file, and it helped. A lot.