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.
New option: Remove User's Thanks Count When Deleting Post
New phrase: post_thanks_search_user_gave
FIX User reputation level now updates. (Thanks to liwo for this one.)
NEW Added option to view all posts a user has thanked.
FIX Fixed Special Action - Delete All of a Users Thanks
FIX Should have fixed some 'foreach()' errors.
Version 7.3 (03/15/08):
Updated file: functions_post_thanks.php
Updated template: post_thanks_memberinfo_block
Deleted template: post_thanks_memberinfo_css
New option: Choice to use Markup Usernames or not. (Thanks to Namaless)
New option: Ban User from Getting Thanks
New option: Max Thanks a User can Give Per Day
FIX Fixed repeating bug on vb 3.6.7 forums.
CHANGE Changed where the post thanks info shows on the Profile Page. Moved to same box as statistics. (This will require a template edit if you are running vb3.7 beta 2-4)
Version 7.4 (03/21/08):
FIX: Fixed Profile Stats for vb3.7.0 RC1 users.
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.
Pictures:
Showing the 'thanks' button and stats in Postbit
Showing post after 'thanks' (user view)
Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
Thanks it is working. I figured out my problem was I can't thank myself (duh) so when I looked at other members post I figured out it was installed right. lol
Well, you CAN thank yourself. You just need to enable it in the options...
I have checked and re-checked all steps of the installation and am certain everything is correct, yet there's still no sign of the thanks button after upgrading from 5.3 to 6.2.
If this isn't fixed really soon I guess I will have to roll back to 5.3 and do all those damn template edits manually (again)
Hey Abe, was wondering if you could help me out with an issue I'm having with thanks button. I know another member asked this as well and didn't see a reply as to how to fix it. I'm basically ending up with multiple thanks buttons with each reply on the thread. Was wondering how I could fix that issue. Thank you in advance! ^^
Although the thanks button had reappeared now and appears to be working fine, but all my user's thank counts are GONE and previously thanked threads now have no record of these thanks.
I figured I'd solve this by simply copying the post_thanks table from my backup in it's entirety, but although the table now exists and contains all the data it did when I was running V5.3, the thank you counts are still not being recognized. ?
Did the format change between V5.3 and V6.0 Gold? Don't tell me I have to roll back ANOTHER version to V5.3... I'll be right back where I started
And I thought upgrading was a good idea.... <sigh>
Hey Abe, was wondering if you could help me out with an issue I'm having with thanks button. I know another member asked this as well and didn't see a reply as to how to fix it. I'm basically ending up with multiple thanks buttons with each reply on the thread. Was wondering how I could fix that issue. Thank you in advance! ^^
I thought I did something wrong...but I'm glad i'm not the only one experiencing this.
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05-29-2007, 10:01 PM
