Version: 7.82, by Abe1
Developer Last Online: Jun 2010
Category: Show Thread Enhancements -
Version: 4.0.x
Rating:
Released: 12-29-2009
Last Update: 11-01-2016
Installs: 3537
DB Changes Uses Plugins Auto-Templates
Additional Files Translations
No support by the author.
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:
- 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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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.
I wasn't seeing the images (using the default Vb4 theme; my only theme). I updated to the new rev today and I get this whenever I try to view a thread:
Quote:
Database error in vBulletin 4.0.0:
Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM post_thanks WHERE postid IN (1168250) ORDER BY username ASC;
MySQL Error : Table 'xxx_vbulletin.post_thanks' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Sunday, January 3rd 2010 @ 01:14:47 AM
Error Date : Sunday, January 3rd 2010 @ 01:14:47 AM
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.1.30
I disabled it in the ACP and tried running the recounters (just in case it would help) and got this:
Quote:
Database error in vBulletin 4.0.0:
Invalid SQL:
SELECT COUNT(*) AS post_thanks_user_amount FROM post_thanks
WHERE userid = 2;
MySQL Error : Table 'xxx_vbulletin.post_thanks' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Sunday, January 3rd 2010 @ 01:17:19 AM
Error Date : Sunday, January 3rd 2010 @ 01:17:19 AM
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.1.30
I reinstalled and still got the same results. I figured something may be corrupt so I tried to uninstall with the hopes of reinstalling from scratch. After clicking the button, it sat there for several minutes and eventually gave me this:
Quote:
Database error in vBulletin 4.0.0:
Invalid SQL:
DELETE tagcontent
FROM package AS package JOIN
contenttype AS contenttype ON
contenttype.packageid = package.packageid JOIN
tagcontent AS tagcontent ON
contenttype.contenttypeid = tagcontent.contenttypeid
WHERE productid = 'post_thanks';
MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006
Request Date : Sunday, January 3rd 2010 @ 01:20:26 AM
Error Date : Sunday, January 3rd 2010 @ 01:22:03 AM
Classname : vB_Database
With this version, the tx img in the postbit work ok?
Yes, without editing any templates.
I was running this mod and applied the changes to support postbit legacy, so when I updated to this version, I had some warnings about conflicts in the post_thank templates, so I just reverted the templates to the default ones and voila. Every thing is working great now, at least for me. Good luck to every one wanting to use this superb mod. And special thanks and greetings to Abe.
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01-03-2010, 02:45 AM
