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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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

[wildheart]

Back on page 165 I asked how I can make the thank you block smaller and some one directed me to this thread which worked great: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=194553. Force did some changes on my forum and it reverted back to a huge block under the posts that looks absolutely terrible. I tried to do the same fix but now I get this error:

PHP Code:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 3822

The following error occurred when attempting to evaluate this template:
%1$s
This is likely caused by a malformed conditional statement. It is highly recommended that you fix this error before continuing, but you may continue as-is if you wish. 


Does anybody know how I can fix this please?

[Hippy]

Post the code your trying to replace.
What template.
And any other info that may help me track the issue down.

[wildheart]

Hi Hippy, thanks for offering to look at it. I just followed this thread's instructions: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=194553 After I added all the code I got the above error.

Never mind I see where the problem is, it says to add the code to the post_thanks_postbit and it should read Replace the code. Working now.

[RichieBoy67]

Originally Posted by Hippy

What thanks button? The thumb?

To move location of the thumb
Look here
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1943

Yes, the thumb is barely visible, very small. I was wondering if anyone has used anything else?

Thanks

[RichieBoy67]

Originally Posted by fxdigi-cash

like these:

thumbs up

check this list: thumbs up

found some at stackoverflow, nice ones though some thumbs up

and if you search these worlds in google "thumbs up symbol", you will find bunch of them

Thanks, yeah I did all that already. I just wanted to see what everyone else was using and how it looks, etc. I haven't found anything that fits decent and looks ok.

[solarboy]

I made it work only by editing the version lines in the xml file.
I used it back in vb 3.8 and had a lot of thanks given among users already so changing to a new hack meant losing all that data.

[HS2005]

Perhaps this has been asked a lot of times but I could not find any solution for it.

I have upgraded my board from 3.8.4 (www.forum.com) to 4.2.2 (www.forum.com/vb4) --> (Vb 5 does not support this hack)
It's a clean install and new database. Using impex I have transferred all of my threads, posts etc. Impex is not solid, so with less effort I managed to set everything straight, except for the amount of thanks per user.

I looked at the table where thank you(s) were stored and I found that reputation has a lot of comments so I exported it and imported it again to the new database. But without any luck sadly.

How can I make a good back-up of my MySQL database so that when I import the amount of thanks are whole again per user. Perhaps there is a different method. Thanks in advance

This hack has Always been a godlike addon to vBulletin.

[zzSQL]

Ok, n00b question but I installed Advanced Post Thanks / Like v3.1.7 (Lite) and imported it into the AdminCP.

Don't see the Like/Thanks buttons but do see the stats for those.
Am I not seeing b/c I haven't gotten a license?

I'm new to mods so please excuse my ignorance on the matter.

Greg

[Ladillaxx]

There is version of this addons for version 4.2.2?

[GMan55]

Originally Posted by Ladillaxx

There is version of this addons for version 4.2.2?

I'm using this in 4.2.2 without any issues.