[AJAX] Post Thank You Hack

Post Thank You Hack 4.5

Click here for the vb3.6 version of this hack.

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 granted 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: 4
• Files to upload: 1
• Time to install: 5 minutes max

Updates:

Version 2.0 GOLD (10/02/05):

• GOLD Release of this hack for vBulletin version 3.5

Version 2.1 (10/23/05):

• [BUG FIX] When merging/splitting threads
• [BUG FIX] When a user deletes his thanks (now removes post/rep count if option(s) on)
• [ADD PHRASE] post_thanks_user_says
• [ADD PHRASE] post_thanks_time_post
• [ADD PHRASE] post_thanks_times_post
• [ADD PHRASE] post_thanks_times_posts
• [DELETED PHRASE] post_thanks_thanks_amount

Version 2.2 (10/23/05):

• [ADDED] Re-counters. Found under Maintenance->Update Counters in your ACP.

Version 2.3 (11/05/05):

• [ADDED] Cache Templates

Version 2.4 (11/07/05):

• [ADDED] Setting to disallow users from deleting their own thanks.

Version 2.5 (11/09/05):

• [FIXED] All number outputs run through your vb setting of number format. (e.g. 1234 will now show as 1,234)

Version 2.6 (12/04/05):

• [FIXED] Number outputs for numbers between 1,000 and 1,999
• [FIXED] Showing of the thanks button on deleted threads pages.

Version 2.7 (12/18/05):

• [ADDED] Made the Thanks button a template
• [ADDED] Made a template group for this hacks templates
• [FIXED] One template edit. Find correction in zip file.
• [CHANGED] Made a pop-up now when you click Thanks instead of refreshing the page.
• [FIXED] Made the line when you give reputation points for thanks, a phrase.
• [ADDED] Paypal link so you can make a donation for this hack.

Version 2.8 (2/5/06):

• [FIXED] Removed one query thanks to AnhTuanCool (Abe clicks 'thanks')
• [ADDED] Option to allow users to thank their own post
• [ADDED] Option to allow a pop=up or refresh after a user clicks thanks

Version 2.9 (2/8/06):

• [FIXED] Fixed allot of things in regard to deleting thanks using the "remove all thanks" and "Remove your thanks".

Version 3.0 (2/10/06):

• [FIXED] Fixed one more thing in regard to "remove all thanks".
• [FIXED] Re-wrote the thanks actions so it they useless queried when you give or remove thanks.

Version 3.1 (2/11/06):

• [FIXED] Fixed bug with reputation.

Version 3.2 (2/13/06):

• [FIXED] Fixed another bug with reputation.
• [FIXED] Sped up the one query used to retrieve the thanks.

Version 3.3 (2/14/06):

• [FIXED] Fixed bug with removing own thanks.

Version 3.4 (3/17/06):

• [FIXED] Fixed a few bugs.

Version 4.0 (4/17/06):

• [ADDED] AJAX technology so your users don't have to refresh the page they are viewing!

Version 4.1 (4/18/06):

• [FIXED] Crashing of 'quick reply' when using Firefox.

Version 4.2 (4/23/06):

• [FIXED] If you have vboption 'Add Template Name in HTML Comments' set to 'Yes', button was not showing.
• [FIXED] Uncached template when viewing a PM
• [FIXED] Getting sent to index page when clicking thanks on some forums.
• [FIXED] Link to member's profile from the thank box.
• [FIXED] The post thank count not updating. (Recommend you recount thanks. (ACP->Maintenance->Update Counters)

Version 4.3 (5/4/06):

• [FIXED] Optimized a lot of the templates.
• [ADDED] Easy integration with my Post Groan Hack.

Version 4.4 (5/7/06):

• [FIXED] Bug with AJAX if you had the date showing.

Version 4.5 (6/19/06):

• [FIXED] Bug with AJAX if you had hacks that added things to your output.

Please post your comments or suggestions for this hack. I read ALL posts.

MAKE SURE YOU CLICK INSTALL!
You will get an email when a new version is released.

Pictures:

1. Showing the 'thanks' button and stats in Postbit
2. Showing post after 'thanks' (user view)
3. Showing post after 'thanks' (admin view)
4. Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
5. Stats in members profile and link
6. Link in Search drop down menu
7. Hacks settings

This hack is created for your use free of charge. No payment is requested. However, if you would like to donate money for the work I put in to this hack, a donation would show your appreciation.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by chexx

Hi Abe,
cool pice...

Worked fine on a fresh 3.5.4 installation, but I had a problem when switching on the "Add Template Name in HTML Comments" feature. Got some strange errors in my browser and tracked them down to the "$post_thanks_button_image" template which gets included within a client script. The vb added comments around the template messed up in my browser...

As I'm new to vb - also new to web development so the comments help me alot - I solved this by changing two PlugIns

"Hook Location : postbit_display_start":
find: fetch_template('post_thanks_button_image')
repl: fetch_template('post_thanks_button_image',0,false) 

"Hook Location : showthread_start":
find: fetch_template("post_thanks_button_image")
repl: fetch_template("post_thanks_button_image",0,false)

With this the "$post_thanks_button_image" template gets included w/o the comments, so this works fine for me. Did this on my local board, so side effects won't harm. Just wanted to say thank's and let you know...

I know about this problem. I'm about to releace an update with it fixed.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by bashy

I have just updated to the latest version as it was showing green....
Now its totally screwed my forum, When i click the thanks button it puts the whole forum in the the post that i am thanking?

I have to refresh the page to get rid of it and there is no thanks for the post showing on the post

Try the update i'm about to release. If still bad, I'll have to look at your forum.

[Abe1]

Version 4.2 (4/23/06):

• [FIXED] If you have vboption 'Add Template Name in HTML Comments' set to 'Yes', button was not showing.
• [FIXED] Uncached template when viewing a PM
• [FIXED] Getting sent to index page when clicking thanks on some forums.
• [FIXED] Link to member's profile from the thank box.
• [FIXED] The post thank count not updating. (Recommend you recount thanks. (ACP->Maintenance->Update Counters)

I believe this takes care of all current bugs. Please report here again if I didn't fix one.

I hope to add the 'limit/control how many thanks to show' will hopefully be added to a later version.

[redlabour]

Works great at me now.

[bashy]

Still the same Abe,
I will take the liberties and pm you admin if thats ok

Originally Posted by Abe1

Try the update i'm about to release. If still bad, I'll have to look at your forum.

[stinger2]

Originally Posted by Abe1

If you gave me your IP address I would be able to get in.

thanks Abe1

just read your comment and saw the update.........so i just imported 4.2 xml
and the button is showing perfectly now....

just for testing ..i reimported 4.1..button gone......reimported 4.2 button shows........

so i suppose the last fix had to do with it.....

thank you very much for the excellant support

[Za4a Tuner]

Hy Abe1,
thanks a lot for the new release => it works great!
Now the thanks-button does appear

And my "reported bug" with the broken link in the "public profil" ... forget it
i had some bad days -> and didn't recognized, that the testuser in the testvb don't HAVE any thanks to show

? "clicked install for the update"

[efil]

hi,
i did installed the Hack and it's working great.

my problem is that when i push the thanks button i get ?????????????? signs instead of "the following user say thank you for this useful post..."

just after i do refresh i get the sentence in hebrew.




please help.

[YLP1]

I installed the latest version of the Thank You, Groan and the can't have groan and thank you mods.

I reverted all the mod templates (vb version is 3.5.4). All works except for the issue with the IE errors and the Thank you button on removing the thanks:

When I click on the thank you, no redirection occurs,the Thank You button is gone, the groan button is present and I receive an IE error (see graphic 1_1.gif).

I have to refresh my page in order to see the thank you given (see graphic 21.gif)

When I try to remove a thank you via the your thanks link.... no action is taken but I do receive an IE error (see graphic 3_1.gif for IE error and graphic that shows the Thank You still there after clicking "remove your thanks" link)

I am able to add a groan and remove a groan with no errors or IE errors.

I don't know what I did to break this but I did do a uninstall and reinstall but get the same issue.

Please advise on how I can fix this.

Thank you in advance.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by YLP1

I installed the latest version of the Thank You, Groan and the can't have groan and thank you mods.

I reverted all the mod templates (vb version is 3.5.4). All works except for the issue with the IE errors and the Thank you button on removing the thanks:

When I click on the thank you, no redirection occurs,the Thank You button is gone, the groan button is present and I receive an IE error (see graphic 1_1.gif).

I have to refresh my page in order to see the thank you given (see graphic 21.gif)

When I try to remove a thank you via the your thanks link.... no action is taken but I do receive an IE error (see graphic 3_1.gif for IE error and graphic that shows the Thank You still there after clicking "remove your thanks" link)

I am able to add a groan and remove a groan with no errors or IE errors.

I don't know what I did to break this but I did do a uninstall and reinstall but get the same issue.

Please advise on how I can fix this.

Thank you in advance.

I think I know why you would get the error. It has to do with the hack that blocks someone from thanking and groaning. I didn't release an update for it yet. I hope to in the near future.