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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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

You do not want the links to display, they will create database errors for you as they use an old search string that doesn't work and tries to access a table that no longer exists.

[Phaedrus]

Okay, I'm going to post the version that I have integrated with the groans on my site, the search feature is off until I can figure out the correct search string to find all thanks/groans. I'll also post the groans that I added back the integration to. If you upgrade check your dbase for an extra "post" in your dbase in the post_thanks/post_groans tables. For some reason it adds an extra one that is useless.

Tell me if there are any issues, if this is clean I guess I can post a new thread with both hacks with credit to the original coders...

[Phaedrus]

Originally Posted by sulasno

do I need to uninstall or simply overwrite the existing version with the new file ?


I wish that more features could be added to the mod;

disallowing certain users from using this mod would be great (to stop anyone from abusing the mod)

Um... That option is there.

[addamroy]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

You do not want the links to display, they will create database errors for you as they use an old search string that doesn't work and tries to access a table that no longer exists.

Oooh I see, fair enough.

[chrisdaman]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

Okay, I'm going to post the version that I have integrated with the groans on my site, the search feature is off until I can figure out the correct search string to find all thanks/groans. I'll also post the groans that I added back the integration to. If you upgrade check your dbase for an extra "post" in your dbase in the post_thanks/post_groans tables. For some reason it adds an extra one that is useless.

Tell me if there are any issues, if this is clean I guess I can post a new thread with both hacks with credit to the original coders...

Thanks. I installed both updated versions and testing now. I'll report back.

[Hippy]

Phaedrus
thanks for your efforts..
Looking forward to having the find all thanks back..

Can you use these updated versions you made separate?

I know you made them work together.
But I wanted to know if they will work as stand alone mods still..

thanks again ..

2 thumbs up

[Phaedrus]

They should, but apparently there are still issues with the groans.

They are separate mods and the Thank Yous in particular are working splendidly. And as soon as I figure out the correct search string I'll be adding that back in. Unfortunately this is learn as you go for me, I only took it up because my users are pissed that I upgraded and lost their Groans... Man... I was sure that I had everything to upgrade without losing any of my mods... that's what I get for not testing more thoroughly before I upgraded. There's no going back now though.

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

They should, but apparently there are still issues with the groans.

They are separate mods and the Thank Yous in particular are working splendidly. And as soon as I figure out the correct search string I'll be adding that back in. Unfortunately this is learn as you go for me, I only took it up because my users are pissed that I upgraded and lost their Groans... Man... I was sure that I had everything to upgrade without losing any of my mods... that's what I get for not testing more thoroughly before I upgraded. There's no going back now though.

I know the feeling pal..
thanks for your efforts

[Chase]

Dumb question, but I'll be upgrading from 3.8.4 to 4.1.2. Should I use the Thanks download from Abe or yours Phaedrus? Note: I am not using the groan mod.

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by Chase

Dumb question, but I'll be upgrading from 3.8.4 to 4.1.2. Should I use the Thanks download from Abe or yours Phaedrus? Note: I am not using the groan mod.

Make sure you back up as you would before any DB change...

turn off all your mod / hooks

then when you update from vb3 to vb4 then the mods, I would run Phaedrus updated version
*note allow over write on the import of the xml file..

and DO NOT Unistall the mod before updating .. you'll loose all the thanks..