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

[vortech1]

Style Manager/ All style options / Image Paths / Button Images Folder / wrimages/buttons should that be set some where else as well? All my other buttons work. Just not the thank you image but I put it in the images/buttons and wrimages/buttons to be sure.

[Simon Lloyd]

Maybe qualify the location of the php file then in Styles & Tempalates>Style Manager>YOUR STYLE>Post Thank You Templates>post_thanks_button at the top you will see <a href="post_thanks.php......etc maybe qualify it like this <a href="http://www.YOURSITE.COM/FORUM/post_thanks.php....etc


Just a shot in the dark, without beig able to see that all the files have been ftp'd to the correct places, checking your styles....etc i don't think i can help further, sorry

[KrisP]

Suggestion. More configurable buttons, fx. "I Agree", "Best post in thread", "Thanks" etc. combined with vbexperience this could be a powerfull very rating/rep system.

I am actually planning on doing an attemt to hack the core functionality of this myself over the next weeks/months.

[sbs68]

Originally Posted by R*NightOwl

I was able to fix the depreciated errors, open "post_thanks.php",
replace

PHP Code:

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE); 


with

PHP Code:

error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_DEPRECATED); 


doesn't really replace or fix the depreciated code, but, at least it works.

It worX - Genius !

By the way R*NightOwl says this is not the real solution. Somebody knows what is that???????

[Simon Lloyd]

Originally Posted by sbs68

It worX - Genius !

By the way R*NightOwl says this is not the real solution. Somebody knows what is that???????

To Take care of later PHP incompatibilities or problems it should read:

PHP Code:

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~8192); 


[Dj Smuggla]

Originally Posted by Makc666

Search in templates for:

PHP Code:

$template_hook[postbit_controls] 


You will find it in two templates:

• postbit
• postbit_legacy

Will look like:

PHP Code:

        $template_hook[postbit_controls]
        <!-- / controls --> 


Now you have to move:

PHP Code:

$template_hook[postbit_controls] 


some about ~20 lines up.

And put it right after:

PHP Code:

<!-- controls --> 


So it will look like:

PHP Code:

        <!-- controls -->
        $template_hook[postbit_controls] 


P.S. Note that

PHP Code:

<!-- / controls --> 


and

PHP Code:

<!-- controls --> 


are different lines.

Also!

All other products' buttons which also use this hook will move left.

Thanks Makc666 it worked great...

[MonkYZ]

Sorry, i think i posted in the wrong area (4.x version) so i appologise and post it here too:

Abe1, can you please add an option for "No Thanks" or "Thumbs down" ? Something to be the exact opposite of Thanks... because it seems everyone is abusing Thanks on my forum, but bad comments can't be rated. It would be really great to be able to rate down a post.

Thank you in advance and keep up the good work ! This is probably the most used mod on my forum

[magic77]

Many Thanks for this nice hack ...

Any way to force users thank ; before they Download attachments ?

[The Executioner]

Installed and working great!!!

[The Executioner]

Originally Posted by magic77

Many Thanks for this nice hack ...

Any way to force users thank ; before they Download attachments ?

I think you can force members to read a thread and then set to a minimum of amount of posts to be made before they can download anything.