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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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

I have recently upgraded from 3.8 to 4.1.1 and successfully upgraded the old hack to new version by changing the max version.

Now, the problem is that all the previous thanks are gone and the counter is set to 0. As stated in the second post, I upgraded the thanks add-on and didn't uninstall it.

Any suggestion for retrieving the thanks database?

regards,


P.S: my question was being answered while i was posting... but which counter should update? I can't see any specific counter for thanks.

[Welshy2008]

The counters should be updated after an update anyway.

Did you do a database backup Before upgrading?

[WallyGR]

Update Post Counts did not have any affect...unfortunately

[Welshy2008]

Sorry, That is all I can think of.

[WallyGR]

Hmmm the Thanx you button is not displayed as well
I have put the 2 png images in the button folders...

[andreamarucci]

Ehm I feel a little dumb. I've installed bot i really don't know where to go for administration (if there's an administration). Also I'm using postbit (the horizontal one) and I've not understood where to go and what to put in to show the button...

Can someone help?

[myrtletalk]

Originally Posted by john h

I've installed this in 4.1.1 final and it only add the "Thanks" icon to the first post. I have selected "No" for the "Only work in First Post" option in settings (I did try "Yes" as well but no change).

How did you get it installed on 4.1.1? When I try it stops during the import and says it isn't designed for 4.1.1?

[john h]

Read some the previous posts, it tells you how to change the xml file so it will install.

[lostguy]

Im using Vb 4.1.1 but the system dont allow me install ! can someone post the solution here ?

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by myrtletalk

How did you get it installed on 4.1.1? When I try it stops during the import and says it isn't designed for 4.1.1?

Originally Posted by lostguy

Im using Vb 4.1.1 but the system dont allow me install ! can someone post the solution here ?

1. Find and edit product-post_thanks.xml as follows:

2. FIND around line 15:

<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="4.0.0 beta 4" maxversion="4.1.0 alpha 1" />

3. CHANGE the last part to maxversion="4.1.99" so it now looks like:

<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="4.0.0 beta 4" maxversion="4.1.99" />

4. SAVE.

5. IMPORT product-post_thanks.xml in Add Product.