About this hack:
This hack allows users to thank someone for a post without making a big mess on your forum. I'm sure most of you HATE when people just make a post that says 'thank you'. Also, for those people who don't like making the 2 word post, this gives them a chance to say thanks. It's also good for users of your forum who post something helpful and want to see if people really used their information.
There is a similar hack called 'Automatic Thank You Hack'. That hack only lets you thank the first post of a thread not just any post. It's also unsupportive and was release for an older version of vbulletin.
Features:
Places an easy to use button next to the edit button
Separate looks for postbit and postbit_legacy
Places all Thank Yous into one small box
Users can't thank twice
Users can't thank their own post
Guests don't see 'thanks' button
Separate PHP for actions
Option to turn off hack for individual forums
Option to turn off hack for all but first post of a thread
Option to turn off hack view of date for separate or all forums
Counts how many thanks a user gives
Counts how many thanks a post gets
Update Counters in ACP (found in 'Import & Maintenance')
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
Administrator can remove all Thank Yous from a single post
Uses Phrases
New set of options. Found in main ACP options.
Turn on and off hack
Turn on and off hack for only some forums
Ban Usergroups
Ban Users
Comes with easy installer/updater/uninstaller file
Guaranteed to be liked by ALL users on your forum!
Installation information on hack:
File edits: 2
Template edits: 3
New Phrases: 42 (installer installs them)
New Templates: 2 (installer installs them)
Queries: 14 excluding phase and template queries (installer installs it)
Files to upload: 4
Time to install: 5-10 minutes
NO KNOWN BUGS, HAVE NO FEAR
Updates:
Version 0.1 (11/24/04):
First beta release
Version 0.2 (11/26/04):
Fixed what you should look for in file /includes/functions_showthread.php
Thank You Button doesn?t show if user used it already
Thank You Button doesn?t show in private messages
Fixed installation for forums that have a 'TABLE_PREFIX'
Administrators can delete all Thank Yous for a single post
Users can't thank them-selves
Version 0.3 (11/29/04):
Guests don't see 'thanks' button
Separate PHP for actions
Option to turn off hack for individual forums
Option to turn off hack for all but first post of a thread
Version 0.4 (12/06/04):
Option to turn off hack view of date for separate forums
Counts how many thanks a user gives
Counts how many thanks a post gets
Update Counters in ACP (found in 'Import & Maintenance')
Shows how many thanks a user gave in every post of his
Shows how many thanks a user gave in profile
Version 0.5 (12/13/04):
Shows how many thanks a user got
Shows how many posts or a user are thanked
Shows info in Profile
Version 0.6 (12/21/04):
New set of options. Found in main ACP options.
Removed option in 'forum' options
Turn off view of date for ALL forums
Turn on and off hack
Turn on and off hack for only some forums
Ban Usergroups
Ban Users
On List for a Future Version:
I hope this is the last beta. Any more ideas, say them quick. Final version hopefully next week.
Please post your comments or suggestions for this hack. I read ALL posts.
MAKE SURE YOU CLICK INSTALL! You will get an email when a new version is released.
i've installed this hack and followed all instructions..however the thanks bouton is not showing ..what is causing that? thanking you in advance for any help
ok i've edited the post bit as you've mentioned above so the bouton s^hows at lat but when i click on on it it takes me to a blank page? any idea? thank you.
i've installed this hack and followed all instructions..however the thanks bouton is not showing ..what is causing that? thanking you in advance for any help
undo the edit you said you just did. did you do the edit in showthreads.php
don't try useing the unistaller, it doesn't work right now. The release for v1.0 will be on tuesday. I'm finishing up last minute work on it.
I think this would be a good suggestion, for the sake of completeness and tidiness ( database housingkeeping ).
Btw Abe, does this hack have the ability to only allow the author of the particular post where there are thank yous to view the thank you notes ?
Instead of showing thank yous for every other post, which could make the showthread page get pretty cluttered.
1) there would be a lot of PHP editing if you want to delete the thank you's when you delete a post. I may come out in the future with an updater that removes the unused thank yous. The only problem keeping them in the database is the space it takes up which is almost nothing. What you can do now is click 'remove all' before you delete a post.
2) No option like that now. Maybe i'll add it to the to-do list in the future. I don't know how many people would use it though. why whould you want only the poster see who says thanks?
3) Even if every post has a 'thank you box', the thread doesn't look cluttered.
well considering this is meant for other members to say thank you to a post, you'd probably only want to know who has said thank you to a post you made , right ?
well considering this is meant for other members to say thank you to a post, you'd probably only want to know who has said thank you to a post you made , right ?
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12-23-2004, 02:26 PM
