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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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

i have this problem i dont see the button only text

[visageiii]

hi, i'm hoping someone can help me solve a problem.

while doing a forum upgrade, and subsequent mod installs/reinstalls, (backups were made at several points) I lost all my "post thanks" in my forum.

Now I have the backups to grab the old tables from, but I don't know which tables should be merged/overwritten. If I want to "fix" my post thanks from a backup which tables etc would I need and a little instruction would be very helpful. thanks for a wonderful hack and believe me, my members want thier hard earned thanks back lol.

[Kaosvf]

Hi,
I activated the mod of "thanks" and now there's a problem, the number of listings blog is a top line, how do I fix it?
Thanks

[Trek]

I uninstalled and am now getting the following error:

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.3:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT userid, usergroupid, displaygroupid, username, posts, post_thanks_thanked_times
FROM asd_user AS user
WHERE post_thanks_thanked_times > '0'
ORDER BY post_thanks_thanked_times DESC
LIMIT 0, 15;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'post_thanks_thanked_times' in 'field list'

What didn't uninstall and how can I fix it?

[Dave-M]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

To fix the cosmetic (font size) errors, apply the fixes in post_thanks_7_82_improvements.zip, posted earlier in this thread bu attached here for convenience.

Thanks for this, but I'm having a few odd issues with it now. When I add a thanks now, it adds thanks after it refreshes the entire page, rather than just adding the thanks. It's the same when removing thanks too.

The other issue is that the box with the thanks in, is still huge. The font is indeed smaller, but that makes no difference to the size of the area of the surrounding box. I even have shortened the phrase to "thanked by", but it's still taking up a lot of space.

So is there a way to make this box smaller? Anyone please?

[mad@Max]

Rewrote js, that i've made earlier.

[Diablotic]

madmax - what does it do?

[Dave-M]

Originally Posted by mad@Max

Rewrote js, that i've made earlier.

Thanks, but still the same issues as reported earlier for me.

[mad@Max]

Diablotic, js optimisation.
Dave-M, this js required changes that i made in xml.

[mhackl]

Would it be very difficult to modify this hack to be "Like" instead of "Thank you" like faceboook?