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[AJAX] Post Thank You Hack · **Released**: 12-29-2009

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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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

struff · #**492** 02-02-2010, 03:04 PM

It frustrates me that my partners and I can't get this to work on our site (using the default vB 4.0.1 style). Our users really liked the old Thanks (and the No Thanks) on vB 3.8 but we get nothing in the postbit and no Thanks icon to click now. Our profiles all show "Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts" but that's the only indication that this product exists at all on our site.

armthehomeless1 · #**493** 02-02-2010, 10:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by I.am

Someone know how to align blog entries?

I am having this problem also. Is this because it doesn't support legacy yet?? Anyone got a work around??

Had to disable postbit cause it looks terrible!

TimberFloorAu · #**494** 02-03-2010, 12:12 AM

We have Legacy , works fine.

crazyace · #**495** 02-03-2010, 05:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by armthehomeless1

I am having this problem also. Is this because it doesn't support legacy yet?? Anyone got a work around??

Had to disable postbit cause it looks terrible!

I had this issue also. I disabled the thank you mod.

mfbmike · #**496** 02-04-2010, 06:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RedTrinity

I hope the same, our members are complaining about this issue as well.

Otherwise its a great hack

You probably still have the old post groan hack still installed but disabled.

I had the same issue. You need to completely uninstall the old post groan hack.

TimberFloorAu · #**497** 02-04-2010, 07:35 PM

I suspect Mike is correct.

When we upgraded we removed all old products, uninstalling. And then removing all files "that were uploaded" via ftp from each product.

Then started a fresh, with new versions.

ddaybofb · #**498** 02-05-2010, 04:12 PM

Any word on post groan hack?

s0lidgr0und · #**499** 02-06-2010, 10:32 AM

You guys should read this thread and/or the support forum before posting in here.

Quote:

Originally Posted by armthehomeless1

I am having this problem also. Is this because it doesn't support legacy yet?? Anyone got a work around??

Had to disable postbit cause it looks terrible!

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=373

djbaxter · #**500** 02-06-2010, 03:10 PM

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.

djbaxter · #**501** 02-06-2010, 04:28 PM

Quote:

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 mamber, but there is no display in postbit.

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

Code:

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:

Code:

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:

Code:

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;
}

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