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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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

[Noctavia]

If there's anyone who has a little knowledge that could help me set up the conditional to only show the thanks box if 2 or more people thank, please PM me. I'm not sure what to write and feel Abe doesn't have the time (or want) to help me. This is the only thing that is stopping this mod from being exactly what I want for my forum...

[Elmer]

Originally Posted by Noctavia

If there's anyone who has a little knowledge that could help me set up the conditional to only show the thanks box if 2 or more people thank, please PM me. I'm not sure what to write and feel Abe doesn't have the time (or want) to help me. This is the only thing that is stopping this mod from being exactly what I want for my forum...

Tray the following, but I don't know if that could give errors...

Replace your post_thanks_postbit_legacy template with this code:

PHP Code:

<if condition="$post['post_thanks_amount'] >= 2">
<div style="padding:$stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px 0px 0px">
    <table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
        <tr valign="top">
            <td class="alt2" width="175">
                <if condition="$post['post_thanks_amount'] == 1">
                    <strong><phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[post_thanks_user_says]</phrase></strong>
                <else />
                    <strong><phrase 1="$post[post_thanks_amount_formatted]" 2="$post[username]">$vbphrase[post_thanks_users_say]</phrase></strong>
                </if>
                <if condition="$bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == 6">
                    <br /><a href="post_thanks.php?do=post_thanks_remove_all&amp;p=$post[postid]"<if condition="$vboptions[disable_ajax] != 2"> onclick="post_thanks_remove_all($post[postid], <if condition="$vboptions['post_groan_integrate']">true<else />false</if>); return false;"</if> rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[post_thanks_remove]</a>
                </if>
                <if condition="$post['show_thanks_remove_option']">
                <br /><a href="post_thanks.php?do=post_thanks_remove_user&amp;p=$post[postid]"<if condition="$vboptions['disable_ajax'] != 2"> onclick="post_thanks_remove_user($post[postid], <if condition="$vboptions['post_groan_integrate']">true<else />false</if>); return false;"</if> rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[post_thanks_remove_user]</a>
                </if>
            </td>
            <td class="alt1"><div>$post[post_thanks_bit]</div></td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</div>
</if> 


Note that I'm using Postbit Legacy, you shuld add the conditional to the post_thanks_postbit template, if your are using that.

[vBVision]

Thanks for hack! But I have a problem with it. In the profiles of all users the total amount of thanks is similar with admin's thanks! My vbulletin version is 3.7.0 Beta 3. What's that, what can I do to solve this problem?

[Noctavia]

Thankyou Elmer!! Looks like it works perfectly. Thank you so much. /bow

[johnr]

Is there a mod or submod of this that would allow guests to say Thank You and this be shown in a seperate part i.e. 'x Guests said Thank You for this post'?. Also on the groan hack too

[bxbigt]

Originally Posted by bxbigt

will this mess up my members thanks count ?

anyone ?

[Justine]

thanks for the update

not sure if you are aware but a better default "Thanks" button can be found here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=163870

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by Noctavia

If there's anyone who has a little knowledge that could help me set up the conditional to only show the thanks box if 2 or more people thank, please PM me. I'm not sure what to write and feel Abe doesn't have the time (or want) to help me. This is the only thing that is stopping this mod from being exactly what I want for my forum...

Noctavia, I suggested this in the 3.6 thread, but I don't think you saw it. You're really much better off using the hooks Abe1 placed within the code, instead of using template edits as suggested above, otherwise every time Abe1 updates the mod, you'll have to re-do the template edit above...

Just create a simple plugin for hook location: post_thanks_function_post_thanks_off_end

Try this:

PHP Code:

$sql = $vbulletin->db->query_first("SELECT COUNT(post_thanks_votenum) AS qty FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post AS post WHERE postid = " . $postinfo['postid'] . " AND qty < 3");

if ($sql['qty'])
{
     return true;
} 


Within the query, change the 3 to minimum quantity of times a post should be thanked before displaying, and I think it'll give you what you need.

[Adam21]

Note: To those who encounter this error

Unable to add cookies, header already sent

after the installation of this mod:

Its because you must follow the instructions given in the templates to alter and add the "$template_hook[navbar_search_menu]" in the navbar template if you are using a previous older style.

[csavern]

A conflict was detected in the bitfields. You cannot continue with the installation of this product until this has been fixed. The conflicts found were:
Bitfield Collision: credits_cantearn = prefixrequired

Any one know how to fix this
i uninstalled the 6.3 and tried to reinstall and still the same thing