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[AJAX] Post Thank You Hack · **Released**: 07-17-2005

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:

Showing the 'thanks' button and stats in Postbit
Showing post after 'thanks' (user view)
Showing post after 'thanks' (admin view)
Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
Stats in members profile and link
Link in Search drop down menu
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.

vktechnology · #**742** 05-10-2006, 05:07 PM

Uses AJAX technology so your users don't have to refresh when they thank.
--------------------
very cool feature

Yorixz · #**743** 05-10-2006, 06:26 PM

Wonderful hack, really something I've been looking for.

I've got a few small problems though, because I'm trying to keep my forum a bit minimalistic (my taste

) I've been trying to put the list of users who thanked into a popup menu, similiar to the one you get if you click on a username.

To do this I've added a new button besides the "Reputation" one which needs to be clicked to see this menu.

The code I've used for this:
After "$post[iplogged]"

Code:

<!-- Start Modified Post Thank You Hack -->
$post_thanks
<!-- End Modified Post Thank You Hack -->

And in the template post_thanks_box I replaced the non-<script> content with

Code:

<!-- Start Modified Post Thank You Hack -->
<!-- post $post[postid] info menu -->

<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="infomenu_$post[postid]_menu" style="display:none">
	<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
	<tr>
		<td class="userinfo" id="post_thanks_box_$post[postid]">
		$post_thanks_box
		</td>
	</tr>
	</table>
</div>

<span id="infomenu_$post[postid]"><a href=""><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/info.gif" alt="Post Info" border="0" /><script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("infomenu_$post[postid]", true); </script></span>
<!-- End Modified Post Thank You Hack -->

In addition I've also removed the $spacer's out of the 'post_thanks_postbit_legacy' template.

It's working fairly well, I've got a few problems that I couldn't find a solution for though:
How can I 'extend' the hack some so I'll able to hide the info.gif image if there are no users who thanked for a post.
And how can I make sure the list will be updated when a user clicks the "Thanks" button? I'm afraid I destroyed the AJAX somewhere but can't figure out where it was.

Thanks a lot for your help, hopefully there are also other users interested in this.

Edit; reduced the template edits by one, still hoping for someone to help me fixing the bugs!

bashy · #**744** 05-10-2006, 06:31 PM

Do you have a demo of your extra bit or a screener please,
Do you think you could do the same for the post groan?

Pehaps you can release yours as an add on for these 2 hacks..

Its just that my post bit is looking a tad full ya see and getting rid of the
thanks and groans amounts would be a godsend

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yorixz

Wonderful hack, really something I've been looking for.

I've got a few small problems though, because I'm trying to keep my forum a bit minimalistic (my taste

) I've been trying to put the list of users who thanked into a popup menu, similiar to the one you get if you click on a username.

To do this I've added a new button besides the "Reputation" one which needs to be clicked to see this menu.

The code I've used for this:
After "$post[iplogged]"

Code:

<span id="infomenu_$post[postid]"><a href=""><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/info.gif" alt="Post Info" border="0" /><script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("infomenu_$post[postid]", true); </script></span>

After ""

Code:

<!-- Start Post Thank You Hack -->
$post_thanks
<!-- End Post Thank You Hack -->

And in the template post_thanks_box I replaced the non-script content with

Code:

<!-- post $post[postid] info menu -->
<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="infomenu_$post[postid]_menu" style="display:none">
	<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
	<tr>
		<td class="userinfo" id="post_thanks_box_$post[postid]">
		$post_thanks_box
		</td>
	</tr>
	</table>
</div>
<!-- / post $post[postid] info menu -->

In addition I've also removed the $spacer's out of the 'post_thanks_postbit_legacy' template.

It's working fairly well, I've got a few problems that I couldn't find a solution for though:
How can I 'extend' the hack some so I'll able to hide the info.gif image if there are no users who thanked for a post.
And how can I make sure the list will be updated when a user clicks the "Thanks" button? I'm afraid I destroyed the AJAX somewhere but can't figure out where it was.

Thanks a lot for your help, hopefully there are also other users interested in this.

Yorixz · #**745** 05-10-2006, 06:39 PM

As soon as I've made sure all bugs are gone I'll definitely release it here (if Abe allows me, which shouldn't be too much of a problem as it's only a template edit).

You can find somewhat of a "demo" here: http://otfans.net/showthread.php?p=347708.

Code:

Logon with vBtest / test

bashy · #**746** 05-10-2006, 06:44 PM

wow...that is 100% brill m8...
look forward to the release if its allowed

Thanks for the login!

Abe1 · #**747** 05-11-2006, 12:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yorixz

As soon as I've made sure all bugs are gone I'll definitely release it here (if Abe allows me, which shouldn't be too much of a problem as it's only a template edit).

You can find somewhat of a "demo" here: http://otfans.net/showthread.php?p=347708.

Code:

Logon with vBtest / test

I have no problems with anyone releasing add-ons to my hacks.

Yorixz · #**748** 05-11-2006, 12:21 PM

I'm glad to hear that, could you also help me out some with the two problems I'm experiencing (which I posted a way up), thanks a lot.

bashy · #**749** 05-13-2006, 04:49 PM

Hi Yorixz I am not seeing a post_thanks_box template, i have a post_thanks_groan template though....?

Yorixz · #**750** 05-13-2006, 08:55 PM

I haven't got the Groan Hack installed so I don't know if/what templates it's overwriting. The post_thanks_box template is the one that has all the Javascript of the AJAX in it and at the bottom one line of HTML.

mktrilogy · #**751** 05-14-2006, 01:53 AM

im kinDA congfused, when u say

Do the template edits

in postbit AND postbit_lagacy:

find:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
$vbphrase[posts]: $post[posts]
--------------------------------------------------------------------

AFTER place this:
--------------------------------------------------------------------

<if condition="$post[userid]">
 
$vbphrase[post_thanks_thanks]: $post[post_thanks_user_amount]
 
<if condition="$post[post_thanks_thanked_times_on] == 1">
$vbphrase[post_thanks_time_post]
<else />
<if condition="$post[post_thanks_thanked_posts_on] == 1">
<phrase 1="$post[post_thanks_thanked_times]">$vbphrase[post_thanks_times_post]</phrase>
<else />
<phrase 1="$post[post_thanks_thanked_times]" 2="$post[post_thanks_thanked_posts]">$vbphrase[post_thanks_times_posts]</phrase>
</if>
</if>
</if>

--------------------------------------------------------------------

i am using ------ Find and Replace in Templates (be careful!)-----

shoud i ------ Search for Text then =------- replace with text?

Meaning the value that u given should be replace or just add it to the variable ?

sample

$vbphrase[posts]: $post[posts] replace by 
<if condition="$post[userid]">
 
$vbphrase[post_thanks_thanks]: $post[post_thanks_user_amount]
 
<if condition="$post[post_thanks_thanked_times_on] == 1">
$vbphrase[post_thanks_time_post]
<else />
<if condition="$post[post_thanks_thanked_posts_on] == 1">
<phrase 1="$post[post_thanks_thanked_times]">$vbphrase[post_thanks_times_post]</phrase>
<else />
<phrase 1="$post[post_thanks_thanked_times]" 2="$post[post_thanks_thanked_posts]">$vbphrase[post_thanks_times_posts]</phrase>
</if>
</if>
</if>


OR

$vbphrase[posts]: $post[posts]

then i just insert below this

<if condition="$post[userid]">
 
$vbphrase[post_thanks_thanks]: $post[post_thanks_user_amount]
 
<if condition="$post[post_thanks_thanked_times_on] == 1">
$vbphrase[post_thanks_time_post]
<else />
<if condition="$post[post_thanks_thanked_posts_on] == 1">
<phrase 1="$post[post_thanks_thanked_times]">$vbphrase[post_thanks_times_post]</phrase>
<else />
<phrase 1="$post[post_thanks_thanked_times]" 2="$post[post_thanks_thanked_posts]">$vbphrase[post_thanks_times_posts]</phrase>
</if>
</if>
</if>


Sorry for the stupid question

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