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
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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

[mdawg]

I have not been able to use this on 5.1.6 or 5.1.7

[Brad Padgett]

I opted out of this for future vbulletin versions.

I wish you would update this to work on 5.1.7

- Brad

[tomcoleman]

I posted on their main forum they said it doesn't work with 5.1.7 and there not looking at it.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by tomcoleman

I posted on their main forum they said it doesn't work with 5.1.7 and there not looking at it.

This is not true. We will absolutely be looking at updating this modification to work with vB 5.1.7.

That being said, unfortunately vB5 version updates sometimes take a lot of time, and the percentage of our customers running vB5 is very small, in comparison to vB4 or even vB3. This means that it's harder for us to allocate resources to provide an update for our vB5 mods as opposed to developing new features for the vB3/vB4 versions or indeed other projects.

For this reason, until vB5 is stable enough that these breaking changes do not frequently happen, all our vB5 mods will remain in Alpha status.

Under no circumstances does this mean we are abandoning vB5 or that we do not intend to support newer vB5 versions, it just means that you cannot upgrade vB5 and expect all modifications to work out of the box.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by tomcoleman

on 5.1.7 it gets stuck at

Updating Version Number To: 1.0.0
?Altered Table: administrator
?Altered Table: user
?Altered Table: usergroup
?Created Table: dbtech_thanks_entry

Updating Version Number To: 1.1.0

then nothing

This means it's trying to alter the node table, which can take a long time.

Originally Posted by tomcoleman

after running it several times it installed

but I cant turn the features on I just have

*[dbtech_thanks_manage_buttons]*

when I click that says invalid 0

This means the installer did not complete successfully due to the aforementioned issue. Please re-import the XML file, then click Repair Cache.

Originally Posted by hkwibawa

I've installed pro version, but I have one issue about search menu in control panel.

It said [Fatal error: Class name must be a valid object or a string in /home/hengky/public_html/core/vb/db/query.php on line 259]

Why It happen? Can u help me to fix this problem??

Please post Pro support queries in our Pro support forums


Fillip

[mdawg]

You might as well try to get it to work with vb 5.1.8 which I am certain it does not yet, since 5.1.8 is out now. Thanks.

[hkwibawa]

Haiiii..

I wanna ask about Thanks - Feed. I bought the pro version.
I supposed to use it as Top Like report for some contest.
The contest was input in comment post.
If like button clicked in comment post it will appear as 'No Title'. We don't know whats clicked but just know who click the like button.

We need to know what was clicked, such as the title of the post/ comment or the username.

One thing that made me curious is one of our user's seems have title and appear in Thanks-Feed. I try how it can be happen but I'm not found it.

Can you help me explain how to make the title in comment that would appear in Thanks Feed?

I wait for your feedback soon. Thanks before.

[rossgeorge]

Originally Posted by mdawg

You might as well try to get it to work with vb 5.1.8 which I am certain it does not yet, since 5.1.8 is out now. Thanks.

I am running this version too. No luck implementing this?

[rossgeorge]

Could you elaborate on this step in the readme, please?

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

Everything else looks really simple

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by rossgeorge

Could you elaborate on this step in the readme, please?

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

Everything else looks really simple

https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/ftp/ftp_chmod.htm


Fillip