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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Translations available @ our forum.

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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
Lite

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

[Actron]

Can't find this option in 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.
The Pro version = Advanced Post Thanks / Like (vB5) [Beta] for 84.95$? If yes and it work with 5.4 i will buy it! Great!

[TheLastSuperman]

Is this lite version complete? By that I mean as a "Lite" modification it can function on it's own entirely without use of the pro mod or files? I'm not sure but something seems amiss here...

The reason I'm asking is, in the readme.txt file it states:

/*================================================= =====================*\
|| 3. First Time Installation / Upgrade ||
\*================================================ ======================*/

1. Upload all files from the "upload" folder to your forums directory.

2. CHMOD the following folders to 0777
/core/packages/dbtechthanks/vbactivity_type

3. In AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product
in the "OR import the XML file from your server" put

./packages/dbtechthanks/xml/product_dbtechthanks.xml

4. Configure your Usergroup settings by clicking "Manage Buttons" under
"DBTech - Post Thanks" in your AdminCP navigation menu, then
editing each button and setting your usergroup permissions from there.

However the folder and .xml file are not present in the current .zip file you have uploaded here to vbulletin.org, I see the last time this was updated was on May 7th of this year, I believe someone forgot to include all the required files for the "Lite" version in the new .zip file will you please check this and correct? Thanks

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

Is this lite version complete? By that I mean as a "Lite" modification it can function on it's own entirely without use of the pro mod or files?

It is.

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

However the folder and .xml file are not present in the current .zip file you have uploaded here to vbulletin.org, I see the last time this was updated was on May 7th of this year, I believe someone forgot to include all the required files for the "Lite" version in the new .zip file will you please check this and correct? Thanks

The zip file is correct and all files are present & accounted for.



As you can see, the folder and XML file is indeed present.

Whether the instructions work in the latest version of vB5, I can't say, as whether the "core" part of the folder is needed for the vB5 AdminCP to work as intended seemed to yoyo back and forth between versions the last time I looked at vB5.


Fillip

[TheLastSuperman]

Fillip,

It appears my download wasn't complete (rare that happens but it did) after I re-downloaded the .zip file just now the folder is present, I extracted to a different location to compare and low and behold the one from just the other night is missing the folder so perhaps something was amiss on my end at said time of download!

Thanks for confirming .

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

Fillip,

It appears my download wasn't complete (rare that happens but it did) after I re-downloaded the .zip file just now the folder is present, I extracted to a different location to compare and low and behold the one from just the other night is missing the folder so perhaps something was amiss on my end at said time of download!

Thanks for confirming .

No bother, thanks for letting me know


Fillip

[TheLastSuperman]

Nahhhhh thanks for always providing top-notch support whether it's on your site or here in the modification threads, I've always loved that about you guys!

*This is not an endorsement, Deadpool for President 2020 .

[InsanityForum]

Hi there! Is it possible to make new "Likes" received go to the Notifications rather than to the Messages?

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by InsanityForum

Hi there! Is it possible to make new "Likes" received go to the Notifications rather than to the Messages?

Whenever a user receives a reaction on some content they have posted, they get a notification.

[mdawg]

On a new install of this vb 5.6.1 I am getting
An unexpected error was returned: 'Query class DBTechvBShout_dB_MYSQL_QueryDefs not found'
at ACP/DBTech - Post Thanks / Search

[kingMOB]

Same problem here. vBulletin 5.6.2, ACP > Post Thanks / Search:

PHP Code:

An unexpected error was returned: 'Query class DBTechvBShout_dB_MYSQL_QueryDefs not found'

Exception trace:

## phar:///***/public_html/core/vb/vb.phar/db/query.php(266) Exception Thrown 
#0 phar:///***/core/vb/vb.phar/db/assertor.php(217): vB_dB_Query::getQuery('fetchCommandLog...', Array, Object(vB_Database_MySQLi), false, 'MYSQL', false)
#1 phar:///***/public_html/core/vb/vb.phar/db/assertor.php(641): vB_dB_Assertor->assertQuery('DBTechvBShout:f...', Array, false)
#2 /***/public_html/core/packages/dbtechthanks/actions/admin/search.php(25): vB_dB_Assertor->getRows('DBTechvBShout:f...', Array)
#3 /***/public_html/core/admincp/thanks.php(75): include_once('/home/***...')
#4 /***/public_html/includes/api/interface/collapsed.php(147): require_once('/home/***...')
#5 /***/public_html/includes/vb5/frontend/controller/relay.php(33): Api_Interface_Collapsed->relay('admincp/thanks....')
#6 /***/public_html/index.php(74): vB5_Frontend_Controller_Relay->admincp('thanks.php')
#7 {main}