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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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

[betty02]

How come i get the word Thanks! could i not have the little images that are included in the .zip?

[Kolbi]

I got another 3 MySQL failure message with nr 1146....

[x YNWA x]

Is there a way to have it so it just shows something like "Recieved Thanks: 15", instead of what the user has given out?

[cmeinck]

I made the mistake of uninstalling the product. This removed all the data from the table post_thanks. I have an older backup of my forums with this table, which I then used to replace the emptied table on my live forums.

I'm still seeing 0 of 0 thanks, but there is data in the post_thanks table.

Are there any vBulletin Updates or database queries to get this data recognized?

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

My apologies if this has already been addressed.

vBulletin 4.01

This version of the Thank you hack.

Groans not installed.

The buttons show up correctly.

Clicking on the button updates the thanks count for a mmmber in the User CP and the thanks count in the postbit, but doers NOT display the "Thanked by" informatiion under the post.

Added: Happens in both IE8 and Firefox 3.6.

Originally Posted by djbaxter

More information: When I click on "Thanks", in IE8 I get this error:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6.4; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Timestamp: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 18:27:47 UTC


Message: Object required
Line: 48
Char: 2
Code: 0
URI: http://myforum.com/clientscript/post_thanks.js


Message: 'null' is null or not an object
Line: 12
Char: 4
Code: 0
URI: http://myforum.com/clientscript/post_thanks.js

And here's the portions of that file referenced.

Around line 12:

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;
		}
	}
}

Around line 48:

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_groan_button_' + postid).style.display = 'none';
	}

	var sUrl = '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;
}

More information: I just clicked on the Thanks button for a member (I am the owner and admin) and received this:

[HansMuenchen]

Originally Posted by Kolbi

Got this:
MySQL-Fehler : Table 'search' doesn't exist
Fehler-Nr. : 1146

Here it's the same, someone a idea how to fix it?

Thnx for the answer.

hans

[MrKramer]

Originally Posted by HansMuenchen

Got this:
MySQL-Fehler : Table 'search' doesn't exist
Fehler-Nr. : 1146

i got this also, its updating the table search, but that table isnt in our DB... and shouldn't be there also.

please make a fix

[kermekhaki]

what is error ? problem db .When I click on the threads. Error occurs.

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.1:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM post_thanks AS post_thanks INNER JOIN user AS user USING (userid) WHERE post_thanks.postid IN (0Array) ORDER BY post_thanks.username ASC;

MySQL Error : Unknown column '0Array' in 'where clause'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Thursday, February 11th 2010 @ 12:22:43 AM
Error Date : Thursday, February 11th 2010 @ 12:22:44 AM
Script : ************
Referrer : *********
IP Address : ********
Username : *********
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.81-log

[HansMuenchen]

Originally Posted by MrKramer

i got this also, its updating the table search, but that table isnt in our DB... and shouldn't be there also.

please make a fix

What you mean with fix? How can I do this?

Thank you for your answer.

Greetings
Hans

[Bisha]

here you have some nice small pics for Thank you Hack!