New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like v3 (vB5) [AJAX]

What it is: Advanced Thanks/Like mod is designed to cut down on spam and increase useful content in your forum by using a peer encouragement system - users thank/like each others posts, which can encourage the thanked person to post more great content.

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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php

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Feature List: Lite

Postbit stats: Shows how many button clicks a person has given, received etc in the postbit. Admins can determine what statistics can show in the postbit to control sizes etc.

Admin Permissions: Control things such as who can click buttons, require button clicks, what shows in postbit, what options can run concurrently, per forum permisions etc.

Notifications: Receive alerts when a member clicked on one of the buttons for one of your posts.

Feature List: Pro

Infinite Buttons: Ability to create new buttons to press! No longer do you need to be limited by Thanks / Like / Dislike.

User Postbit Config: Lets users decide what postbit stats they want to see.

Additional permissions: Un-click a button. Control how many stats show on the statistics page, set permissions per subforum.

Buttons in First Post Only: This allows you to only make the first post thankable. If you forum is based around news, releases or anything similar this will allow your users to easily see the quality of the thread in question.

Button Click Anonymity: This feature will be extremely helpful to forums who like the idea of a "dislike" button, but don't like the drama it brings. Now you can set certain buttons to be anonymous - no one will see who clicked.

Missing Feature List: Lite

Require a Button Click: Allows you to hide the content of a post, or hie an attachment, until the person clicks a button on the post.

Statistics: Shows the top 5 people for; Giving / Receiving button clicks.

Import Thanks: Import script to import "thanks" from Abe's [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack on vBulletin.org. It will work with both vB3 and vB4 versions of this mod.

Missing Feature List: Pro

Auto Collapse Posts: Collapses a post so it doesnt show up by using a formulae for button clicks of your choosing.

Post Colour Thresholds: Ever wanted an easy way for members to tell if a post is helpful or trash? Colour thresholds let you change the colour of posts depending on how many clicks of a button they receive. Members can now see at a glance whether or not a post is helpful, interesting or pointless.


Complete Feature List
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Thanks / Like / Dislike Buttons

• Fully integrated into the vBulletin 5 postbit footer
• Same style / functionality as the vBulletin Reputation / "Like" controls
• On-demand list of people who clicked a certain button
• Fully AJAX driven

Button Control

• Edit name and action text
• Turn off "Given" stats
• Turn off "Received" stats
• Ability to turn off buttons per Category

Notifications

• Forum notification
• Notifications contain direct link to the post in question

Maintenance

• Cleanup, removes any thanks / likes / dislikes from posts that no longer exists
• Recalculate, recalculates how many thanks / likes / dislikes a user should have
• Rebuild Statistics, ensures the Statistics table is correctly populated and its values are correct.

Search

• Filter entries by username, button, start date, end date
• Change number of entries per page
• Change sort order

Repair Cache

• Ensures the button / page router caches are updated

Front-End

• Profile tabs integration

Pro

UserCP Settings

• Hide postbit items per-button
• Turn off notifications

Button Control

• Create unlimited buttons to click
• Minimum posts required to click a button
• Per-usergroup setting to become immune to clicks of a button
• Per-usergroup setting whether who clicked a button is displayed
• Per-usergroup setting to allow disabling clicks of a specific button for a post
• Per-usergroup setting to allow removing a click of a button
• Limit button clicks per day
• Per-forum ability to set each button to only display in the first post
• Per-forum toggle of what buttons are enabled
• Turn off "Given" and "Received stats on a per-button basis

Search

• Ability to delete entries found in the Search interface
• Change number of entries per page
• Change sort order

Notifications

• Email notification, respects the receiving user's email settings
• Can be disabled on a per-button basis

Missing Feature List
Lite

• Front-End
  • Require button clicks to see content (whole post is hidden)
  • Require button clicks to see attachments
  • Each button can be set as "Default" for Attachments and Content. When posting via Quick Reply, the default button(s) will be set as Required
  • Top 5 Given / Received statistics for each button
  • Widget for recent Button Clicks
  • Hottest Threads / Posts page showing most clicked posts and threads

Pro

• Front-End
  • "Entry List" page; a browseable list of all button clicks
  • Hottest Threads / Posts has a date range filter
• AdminCP
  • Set more / less than 5 for the Given / Received statistics
  • Ability to auto-collapse posts using provided formula or input for your own using your custom buttons
  • Ability to create Post Colour Thresholds to highlight posts in different colours
  • (vB4) Choose what portions of the postbit should be coloured via the post colour thresholds.
  • Individual users now be excluded from using the mod

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of all pages which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[DragonByte Tech]

As you can see above, it's an issue others have experienced that I cannot replicate. I'm working on it, though


Fillip

[kylek]

Thanks DBT!

Admincp settings worked for me after downloading and installing the latest version on here. No problems going in and editing buttons or settings!

[bigbear83]

^^ this!

i just installed this mod and each of your other major mods for vb5 and i can successfully confirm that the mod as well as the admin settings for this mod and all of your other mods have been 100% resolved & working like a champ for me on 5.2.1

excellent job as always DB Tech! mucho props my man!

[DragonByte Tech]

Sorry for the delay on the fix, glad to hear it's all working


Fillip

[mdawg]

Yes it works now! Thanks.

1) Question, the PM that I received when someone clicked Thanks / Like for one of my posts was:

"Dear , I clicked Thanks for your thread: ___________________. The discussion is located at:_______"

Why does it send the message to , and not have my username there? Is there a setting for this?

2) Also, after installing your mod, I started getting these database errors, repeatedly:

Database error in vBulletin 5.2.1:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM template
WHERE `templateid` IN (12731);

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006
Request Date : Thursday, May 12th 2016 @ 04:10:13 AM
Error Date : Thursday, May 12th 2016 @ 04:12:07 AM

and on each error the Script refers back to the specific thread where I was thanked/liked for a post - the only post in the entire forum so far that has this thank/like action on it.

[bigbear83]

Yo mdawg, nice to see you got this working man

Hey I just got a quick question for you and for anyone else who has installed this update working on 5.2.1 -- so is it just me or do the Likes (Received) not go up incrementally after each like has been given?

I've found myself having to go into the admin settings of this mod and constantly update the stats as that seems to bring the total # of "likes" back to where they should be ... but then again once someone has hit the "like" button the # gets reset right back to 1 likes received and it just stays there ... what gives? Any ideas? Kind of a pain having to constantly go into the admin settings and manually update everything over and over again.

Not entirely sure what the deal is there, but just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this issue or if it is just me?

Interestingly enough the Likes (Given) stat does not have this problem at all and increases on each click and does not reset back to 1 ... only Likes (Received)? Anyone else experiencing this issue?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by mdawg

Yes it works now! Thanks.

1) Question, the PM that I received when someone clicked Thanks / Like for one of my posts was:

"Dear , I clicked Thanks for your thread: ___________________. The discussion is located at:_______"

Why does it send the message to , and not have my username there? Is there a setting for this?


2) Also, after installing your mod, I started getting these database errors, repeatedly:

Database error in vBulletin 5.2.1:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM template
WHERE `templateid` IN (12731);

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006
Request Date : Thursday, May 12th 2016 @ 04:10:13 AM
Error Date : Thursday, May 12th 2016 @ 04:12:07 AM

and on each error the Script refers back to the specific thread where I was thanked/liked for a post - the only post in the entire forum so far that has this thank/like action on it.

1) I'll look into that

2) http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/gone-away.html please see this manual entry.


Fillip

[mdawg]

Thanks. bigbear I have only the one like on one post so far so I don't know the answer to your question.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by bigbear83

Yo mdawg, nice to see you got this working man

Hey I just got a quick question for you and for anyone else who has installed this update working on 5.2.1 -- so is it just me or do the Likes (Received) not go up incrementally after each like has been given?

I've found myself having to go into the admin settings of this mod and constantly update the stats as that seems to bring the total # of "likes" back to where they should be ... but then again once someone has hit the "like" button the # gets reset right back to 1 likes received and it just stays there ... what gives? Any ideas? Kind of a pain having to constantly go into the admin settings and manually update everything over and over again.

Not entirely sure what the deal is there, but just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this issue or if it is just me?

Interestingly enough the Likes (Given) stat does not have this problem at all and increases on each click and does not reset back to 1 ... only Likes (Received)? Anyone else experiencing this issue?

I'm unable to replicate any of these issues, sorry


Fillip

[mdawg]

Originally Posted by bigbear83

Yo mdawg, nice to see you got this working man

Hey I just got a quick question for you and for anyone else who has installed this update working on 5.2.1 -- so is it just me or do the Likes (Received) not go up incrementally after each like has been given?

I've found myself having to go into the admin settings of this mod and constantly update the stats as that seems to bring the total # of "likes" back to where they should be ... but then again once someone has hit the "like" button the # gets reset right back to 1 likes received and it just stays there ... what gives? Any ideas? Kind of a pain having to constantly go into the admin settings and manually update everything over and over again.

Not entirely sure what the deal is there, but just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this issue or if it is just me?

Interestingly enough the Likes (Given) stat does not have this problem at all and increases on each click and does not reset back to 1 ... only Likes (Received)? Anyone else experiencing this issue?

Big Bear - yes, I have this exact same issue. I received a bunch of thanks / likes today (18 PMs in my inbox to confirm) and my count remained at 1 thank / 1 like.

I went into DB Tech - Post Thanks / Maintenance / Recalculate
and clicked it - and ended up on an INVALID URL
and then when I checked back at the forum, my Thanks received and likes received still stuck at 1.

Then I went back and tried to first click CLEAN UP, which did not end up on an invalid url so I suppose it did something. Then I repeated the RECALCULATE process, still ended up on an invalid URL, but this time yes! the count of thanks / likes was updated to 10.

Then a little later someone else clicked and gave me another thanks + like. I got the two PMs. Again my count was stuck at 10. This time just clicking the RECALCULATE alone did the job (got me to 11) - but still ended up on an invalid URL.

So yes, this mod still does not work.