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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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

NOTE: *** Offer for paid services removed ***

[michal72]

Originally Posted by d19rnyxx

Love this hack now I need to find out where i can edit this text so I can translate it into French http://www.screensnapz.com/v/?i=iechll3913IECH.png

post_thanks_user_says

[ForceHSS]

Originally Posted by d19rnyxx

Love this hack now I need to find out where i can edit this text so I can translate it into French http://www.screensnapz.com/v/?i=iechll3913IECH.png

that comes up as a virus

[car20]

Hello

admin cant see Remove all link from a post !!

How do I fix it ?

[michal72]

Originally Posted by car20

Hello

admin cant see Remove all link from a post !!

How do I fix it ?

Check if your admin group has id 6, if not you need to change post_thanks_postbit template

[stained]

Originally Posted by matt94gt

That worked. Thanks. One little thing I see is I thanked someone and it now says

"Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post 0
Feedback Score"

Is there a way to fix this alignment? See example here:
http://sn95forums.com/showthread.php...ciation-solved

Also is there a way to only allow it in certain sections, like I dont really want it in the lounge as people will abuse it.

Thanks

Hi,

To fix the alignment issue open the template blog_postbit_entries_link and add <br /> before:

PHP Code:

<dt>{vb:rawphrase blog_entries} 


You might need two but try it out. This worked for me on 4.1.6

[Hippy]

the updated file posted in this thread fixes all the issues
and re-inables the post thanks search

[stained]

Well, you say that but... In vb 4.1.6 I have tried the Abe1 7.8.2 version, I have tried the 7.8.2 version you linked to here due to the 4.1.6 incompatibility issue reported here and I've tried the 7.8.3 version here.

None of them fix that postbit alignment issue. The only way to get things to work is by adding a break to blog_postbit_entries_link to push the Blog Entries line in the postbit down so that this:

Thanks: 0
Thanked: 0 Times in 0 Posts4
Blog Entries

becomes this:

Thanks: 0
Thanked: 0 Times in 0 Posts

Blog Entries 4

[vb50kgpoo]

Am getting mysql errors when guests click "thank"; should guests be able to see the thank button anyway??

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.5:

Invalid SQL:

REPLACE INTO vb_search (userid, ipaddress, personal, searchuser, forumchoice, sortby, sortorder, searchtime, showposts, orderedids, dateline, displayterms, searchhash)
VALUES (0, '80.67.0.130', 1, 'Scabbard', '', 'post.dateline', 'DESC', 0.00052, 1, '49,35,27', 1317721745, 'a:6:{s:5:\"words\";a:0:{}s:9:\"highlight\";a:0:{} s:6:\"common\";a:0:{}s:5:\"users\";a:1:{i:1;s:8:\" Scabbard\";}s:6:\"forums\";i:0;s:7:\"options\";a:3 :{s:11:\"starteronly\";i:0;s:11:\"childforums\";i: 1;s:6:\"action\";s:7:\"process\";}}', '2a08d0936e50ea2d7ab9abc0c5dbc9bf');

MySQL Error : Table 'antsword_enter.vb_search' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Tuesday, October 4th 2011 @ 02:49:05 AM
Error Date : Tuesday, October 4th 2011 @ 02:49:05 AM
Script : http://www.mydomain.org/post_thanks...._user_gave&u=1
Referrer : http://www.domaincrawler.com/mydomain.org
IP Address : 80.67.0.130
Username : Unregistered
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

[vb50kgpoo]

Hosting company says this;

Hello,
Script located at post_thanks.php is looking for a table named vb_search, there is no such table in your database. We've checked your backup of 23-SEP-2011 and there was no such table at that time.

It seems you've installed a plugin or module, but for some reasons it had not installed properly.

[cayne]

Is there a working version for vBulletin 4.1.6?