Show Thread Enhancements - [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack

vB 4.0 version of this hack here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231666

Post Thank You Hack 7.7

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: (If installed on vb 3.7)

• Files edited: 0
• Templates edited: 0
• Files to upload: 7
• Time to install: 1 minute max

Updates:

Version 7.0 (12/20/07):

• Release of this hack for vBulletin version 3.7
• This version works on all vBulletin versions from 3.6.0 and up

Version 7.1 (12/24/07):

• Fixed up the vb3.7 profile block code including fixing showing your info and not the member you are looking at.

Version 7.2 (01/24/08):

• Updated files: post_thanks.php, functions_post_thanks.php
• Updated templates: post_thanks_memberinfo_block, post_thanks_member_info
• New option: Remove User's Thanks Count When Deleting Post
• New phrase: post_thanks_search_user_gave
• FIX User reputation level now updates. (Thanks to liwo for this one.)
• NEW Added option to view all posts a user has thanked.
• FIX Fixed Special Action - Delete All of a Users Thanks
• FIX Should have fixed some 'foreach()' errors.

Version 7.3 (03/15/08):

• Updated file: functions_post_thanks.php
• Updated template: post_thanks_memberinfo_block
• Deleted template: post_thanks_memberinfo_css
• New option: Choice to use Markup Usernames or not. (Thanks to Namaless)
• New option: Ban User from Getting Thanks
• New option: Max Thanks a User can Give Per Day
• FIX Fixed repeating bug on vb 3.6.7 forums.
• CHANGE Changed where the post thanks info shows on the Profile Page. Moved to same box as statistics. (This will require a template edit if you are running vb3.7 beta 2-4)

Version 7.4 (03/21/08):

• FIX: Fixed Profile Stats for vb3.7.0 RC1 users.

Version 7.5 (05/12/08):

• Updated files: post_thanks.js, post_thanks.php, functions_post_thanks.php
• Updated template: post_thanks_button
• Added securty token check for all thanks added. This will prevent a user from giving out a link or somehow making an image that will get him a lot of thanks.
• Should have fixed some 'foreach()' errors.
• Fixed Delete All of a Users Thanks bug
• vBulletin 3.7.x compatible only

Version 7.6 (06/02/08):

• FIX: Fixed Security Check for vb 3.7.1
• Updated files: functions_post_thanks.php

Version 7.7 (07/28/08):

• FIX: Fixed problem with giving thanks using Blazer (palmOS browser).
• Updated file: post_thanks.js
• Updated templates: post_thanks_button, post_thanks_postbit, post_thanks_postbit_legacy
• New option: Show Stats in Postbit?
• New option: Show Stats in Profile?

Please post your comments or suggestions for this hack. I read ALL posts.

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You will get an email when a new version is released.

Pictures:

1. Showing the 'thanks' button and stats in Postbit
2. Showing post after 'thanks' (user view)
3. Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
4. Stats in members profile and link
5. Link in Search drop down menu
6. Hacks settings

[TheGorf]

I've recently upgraded to the stable PHP 5.3.1. Upon upgrading, this mod (and the Groan, I will double post over there just to be sure) began triggering errors in vB:

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/pnwhs/public_html/pnwhs.org/forums/includes/init.php on line 55

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/pnwhs/public_html/pnwhs.org/forums/includes/init.php on line 107

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/pnwhs/public_html/pnwhs.org/forums/includes/init.php on line 111

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/pnwhs/public_html/pnwhs.org/forums/includes/init.php on line 119

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/pnwhs/public_html/pnwhs.org/forums/includes/init.php on line 130

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/pnwhs/public_html/pnwhs.org/forums/includes/init.php on line 134

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/pnwhs/public_html/pnwhs.org/forums/includes/init.php on line 142

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/pnwhs/public_html/pnwhs.org/forums/includes/init.php on line 211

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/pnwhs/public_html/pnwhs.org/forums/includes/init.php on line 389

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/pnwhs/public_html/pnwhs.org/forums/includes/class_core.php on line 2552

Even though I am running the latest Vb (3.8.4PL1) that has the deprecated error handling, and I have deprecated errors blackholed in my php.ini file I still get these errors upon using the "Thanks" button. The error appears to be bubbling up through the vB bits that call the mod. Hope this helps.

[synseal]

Hi and thank you for this, is their any way of disabling the thanks button showing up in specific forum styles. Reason being is the the way one of my forum styles is configured when I add the thankyou button they same way I have with my other styles the button is way out of line with the others so I manually added a button and now there is 2 thankyou buttons, the one I added and the one that shows with the mod which is as said out of line with the other's, I want to disable the post_thanks link for just one of my styles.

Many thanks in advance.

[RobbieZ]

Originally Posted by synseal

Hi and thank you for this, is their any way of disabling the thanks button showing up in specific forum styles. Reason being is the the way one of my forum styles is configured when I add the thankyou button they same way I have with my other styles the button is way out of line with the others so I manually added a button and now there is 2 thankyou buttons, the one I added and the one that shows with the mod which is as said out of line with the other's, I want to disable the post_thanks link for just one of my styles.

Many thanks in advance.

The whole hack or just that thanks button link?

If you remove the link it will still show 'Users who have thanked this post' column.

PM me a screen shot or post here then i can see whats happening. I may be able to do you a button that fits in line with the others!

[cheat-master30]

Installed, and I might also add the groan hack as well.

[ram94401]

This mod works very well except for guests' posts. If you thank the post written by unregistered members, following error message is thrown up.

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in [path]/post_thanks.php on line 57

Anyone faced this issue? Any idea how to fix this? Thanks!

[Painful]

Its working fine so far, just a small problem. It doesnt show the
Post / Thanks stats in Threads. I uploaded all files and
Show Stats in Postbit? is set to YES.
Would be nice to get a fix ^^
Anyway thanks for your work.

[woffie]

Just wanted to also say that my members want this for 4.0

[blastme]

Would anybody know how to fix the message below ? I get that when clicking on the thanks button. Thanks for the help.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL /forums/post_thanks.php was not found on this server.</p>
<p>Additionally, a 404 Not Found
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.7a mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at www.xxxxx.net Port 80</address>
</body></html>

**I found the problem.**

[Kolbi]

Originally Posted by woffie

Just wanted to also say that my members want this for 4.0

I want to have an update, too.

[goyo]

Originally Posted by Kolbi

I want to have an update, too.

Same here