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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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

[oldz442]

I am trying to simply the like display with a simple post counter beside the Like button. You press the Like button, the counter increments, the Like button is no longer clickable, and hopefully no text/imgs shift at all or too much. Is that possible w/o having to refresh the page?

I did manage to set it up (using vb 4.2.0) like this site with the horizontal blue bar. Works fine, except that relative and absolute settings are being a pain in postbit_legacy template and postbody section... mainly that is pushes the sig and last edited line up too much once there is a Like - I can set margin-bottom:60px or so on postbody, but does not look right with no sig or last edited line.

[jancarlo]

Originally Posted by ForceHSS

As English is not your first language I will help you as you might not understand what the first says so click the link in my sig so get the updated one it also tells you this in the first post or as some call it the op

Thanks ForceHSS... very nice...

[Disco_Dave]

@ForceHSS

A few members have now reported when they click on Find all thanked posts by: We end up with a database error, see below.

Dave

PHP Code:

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.0:

Invalid SQL:

            REPLACE INTO vbsearch (userid, ipaddress, personal, searchuser, forumchoice, sortby, sortorder, searchtime, showposts, orderedids, dateline, displayterms, searchhash)
            VALUES (2, '192.109.140.134', 1, 'Disco_Dave', '', 'post.dateline', 'DESC', 0.01743, 1, '54231,54219,54172,54098,54084,54083,53994,53915,53767,53718,53597,53548,53339,53319,53193,53169,52896,52503,52497,52485,52459,52453,52385,52144,51968,51939,51630,51620,51612,51610,51569,51542,51304,51160,51159,37103,37053,37000,36962,36912,36902,36861,35942,35817,35526,35515,35368,34461,34162,33611,33608,33501,33313,33133,33105,32888,32425,31765,31721,31348,31096,31092,30836,30830,30816,30743,30724,30162,30160,30126,30125,30095,30085,29910,29668,29626,29465,29403,29364,29319,29221,29218,29217,29025,29003,28998,28959,28821,28730,28591,27530,26800,25993,25858,25769,23399,23330,22925,22737,22380,21937,21729,21413,21388,21320,21300,20813,20542,20512,20220,20169,20055,20019,19994,19763,19367,19232,19176,19151,19112,19104,18168,17921,17650,17551,17425,17424,16637,16409,16370,16136,15310,15140,14339,14330,13424,13408,13107,13081,11795,11749,11743,11421,10670,10200,10094,9768,9128,9119,9118,9111,9057,8994,8598,8565,8483,8173,7792,7138,6985,6925,6445,6440,5876,5808,5315,5312,5290,5158,4699,4529,4134,4075,3923,3891,3853,3431,3120,2829,2749,2273,2241,1548,1426,356,353,351,350', 1344499191, 'a:6:{s:5:\"words\";a:0:{}s:9:\"highlight\";a:0:{}s:6:\"common\";a:0:{}s:5:\"users\";a:1:{i:2;s:10:\"Disco_Dave\";}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\";}}', '28ee937b1b4bc2f17f88e466108be8ec');

MySQL Error   : Table 'nirc_xxxxxx.vbsearch' doesn't exist
Error Number  : 1146
Request Date  : Thursday, August 9th 2012 @ 02:59:51 AM
Error Date    : Thursday, August 9th 2012 @ 02:59:51 AM
Script        : http://www.nirc.co.uk/forums/post_thanks.php?do=findthanks_user_gave&u=2
Referrer      : http://www.nirc.co.uk/forums/member.php?2-Disco_Dave
IP Address    : xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Username      : Disco_Dave 


[ForceHSS]

Originally Posted by tricksodave

@ForceHSS

A few members have now reported when they click on Find all thanked posts by: We end up with a database error, see below.

Dave

PHP Code:

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.0:

Invalid SQL:

            REPLACE INTO vbsearch (userid, ipaddress, personal, searchuser, forumchoice, sortby, sortorder, searchtime, showposts, orderedids, dateline, displayterms, searchhash)
            VALUES (2, '192.109.140.134', 1, 'Disco_Dave', '', 'post.dateline', 'DESC', 0.01743, 1, '54231,54219,54172,54098,54084,54083,53994,53915,53767,53718,53597,53548,53339,53319,53193,53169,52896,52503,52497,52485,52459,52453,52385,52144,51968,51939,51630,51620,51612,51610,51569,51542,51304,51160,51159,37103,37053,37000,36962,36912,36902,36861,35942,35817,35526,35515,35368,34461,34162,33611,33608,33501,33313,33133,33105,32888,32425,31765,31721,31348,31096,31092,30836,30830,30816,30743,30724,30162,30160,30126,30125,30095,30085,29910,29668,29626,29465,29403,29364,29319,29221,29218,29217,29025,29003,28998,28959,28821,28730,28591,27530,26800,25993,25858,25769,23399,23330,22925,22737,22380,21937,21729,21413,21388,21320,21300,20813,20542,20512,20220,20169,20055,20019,19994,19763,19367,19232,19176,19151,19112,19104,18168,17921,17650,17551,17425,17424,16637,16409,16370,16136,15310,15140,14339,14330,13424,13408,13107,13081,11795,11749,11743,11421,10670,10200,10094,9768,9128,9119,9118,9111,9057,8994,8598,8565,8483,8173,7792,7138,6985,6925,6445,6440,5876,5808,5315,5312,5290,5158,4699,4529,4134,4075,3923,3891,3853,3431,3120,2829,2749,2273,2241,1548,1426,356,353,351,350', 1344499191, 'a:6:{s:5:\"words\";a:0:{}s:9:\"highlight\";a:0:{}s:6:\"common\";a:0:{}s:5:\"users\";a:1:{i:2;s:10:\"Disco_Dave\";}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\";}}', '28ee937b1b4bc2f17f88e466108be8ec');

MySQL Error   : Table 'nirc_xxxxxx.vbsearch' doesn't exist
Error Number  : 1146
Request Date  : Thursday, August 9th 2012 @ 02:59:51 AM
Error Date    : Thursday, August 9th 2012 @ 02:59:51 AM
Script        : http://www.nirc.co.uk/forums/post_thanks.php?do=findthanks_user_gave&u=2
Referrer      : http://www.nirc.co.uk/forums/member.php?2-Disco_Dave
IP Address    : xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Username      : Disco_Dave 


Use the one in my sig with search fix

[Disco_Dave]

Thanks ForceHSS

[ForceHSS]

Your welcome if you need any more help pm me or check Skype

[Videx]

Originally Posted by ForceHSS

Use the one in my sig with search fix

Actually, of the 3 choices in your sig, none mentions a search fix. I think what you mean is "Use the one in my sig because it contains the search fix.".

[treefrog]

Is there a way to modify this to be a 'Like' hack instead of a 'thank you'
hack?

There's probably a description of how to do that somewhere in the 2800 posts on this thread...but I didn't have time to read them all

[Adam H]

Originally Posted by treefrog

Is there a way to modify this to be a 'Like' hack instead of a 'thank you'
hack?

There's probably a description of how to do that somewhere in the 2800 posts on this thread...but I didn't have time to read them all

See this post, although if you only want the terms to be changed to like instead of Thanks just change the phrases as described at the top of the post. If you want the whole style to be changed so it looks like the screen shot then follow all the instructions :

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=266358

[Hippy]

BirdOPrey5 made one.
You'll find a short cut here and anything else you may need





https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1943