Show Thread Enhancements - [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack

Post Thank You Hack

STAFF EDIT:
Note - The mod author has been unreachable for some time, but the vbulletin.org community has stepped up to provide a number of individual fixes over the years. ForceHSS, Hippy, and Seven Skins have all combined many of these fixes into product files.

ALL CREDIT STILL GOES TO ABE1 And this is still 'his' mod. Please still mark the mod as installed if you use any version of it.

That said so you don't need to apply a dozen + small fixes yourself you should consider downloading one of the updated packages below:

Hippy has one in this post.

AND / OR

ForceHSS has one in this post.

AND/OR

Seven Skins has one in this post.


- Original File Specs: post_thanks_7_82.zip (26.4 KB, 24844 downloads) - Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).
- There are five total patched versions available, some with and without the search fix - I've replaced the main file with the patched versions... please be sure to download and install the correct version, the main mod post contains links to additional information and patched files!
- If Abe1 returns he can request these packages be removed.


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.


Features:

• Uses vBulletin easy Product installer/updater/uninstaller
• Uses AJAX technology so your users don't have to refresh when they thank.
• Places an easy to use button next to the edit button
• Separate looks for postbit and postbit_legacy
• Places all Thanks into one small box
• Uses only ONE query every time you view a showthread page!
• Users can't thank twice
• Option to not allow users to thank their own post
• Guests don't see 'thanks' button
• Counts how many thanks a user gives
• Counts how many thanks a post gets
• 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
• Search for a users thanked posts
• Search for all thanked posts
• Administrator can remove all Thanks from a single post
• Users can remove their own Thanks
• Turn on and off hack totally
• Turn on and off hack for only some forums
• Option to turn off hack for all but the first post of a thread
• Option to turn off hack for all but the first post of a thread in specific forums
• Option to turn off hack view of date for specific or all forums
• Option to add to post count when someone clicks 'thanks'.
• Option to give a user who receives thanks reputation points.
• Ban Usergroups
• Ban Users
• Uses Phrases
• Cache Templates
• Guaranteed to be liked by ALL users on your forum!

Installation information on hack:

• Files edited: 0
• Templates edited: 0
• Files to upload: 8
• Time to install: 1 minute max

Updates:


Version 7.80 (12/30/09):

• Release of this hack for vBulletin version 4.0

Version 7.81 (01/02/10):

• Fixed some install and uninstall database errors.
• Made styling for postbit legacy a little better.
• Fixed the "separator" issue.
• Javascript file updated.

Version 7.82 (01/03/10):

• Fixed info alignment issues in the postbit for custom edited phrases.

NOTE: *** Offer for paid services removed ***

[sadiq6210]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Not to hijack the thread or anything, but since this is unsupported and the coder is MIA you guys might want to try this as an alternative: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ghlight=DBTech

To the best of my knowledge it does everything abes does and more.

Full Disclosure: This is my mod =P

Iain

I thought about it, but all users will lose their thanks and we will start from zero !

[nisarg]

Please update it to run with the latest version of vbulletin mate

Cheers;
Aadi

[emperatour]

Originally Posted by emperatour

I have recently upgraded from 3.8 to 4.1.1 and successfully upgraded the old hack to new version by changing the max version.

Now, the problem is that all the previous thanks are gone and the counter is set to 0. As stated in the second post, I upgraded the thanks add-on and didn't uninstall it.

Any suggestion for retrieving the thanks database?

regards,


P.S: my question was being answered while i was posting... but which counter should update? I can't see any specific counter for thanks.

Originally Posted by WallyGR

Update Post Counts did not have any affect...unfortunately

Goto AdminCP -> Post Thanks -> Recounters and update everything.

In my case, the thanks table in database was removed. I imported the table first and then updated the counter.

All the thanks are back now...
I just wasn't aware of this recountering feature!

[emperatour]

Originally Posted by sadiq6210

I thought about it, but all users will lose their thanks and we will start from zero !

They provide a script in their Pro version to import thanks from Post Thank You Hack mod!

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by VBUsers

worked like a charm! thanks for the post.

welcome

[andyv72]

Need help...

Error:
Warnung: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in [path]/post_thanks.php (Zeile 57)

[Welshy2008]

Upgraded and have received over 500 error message e-mails and continuing to rise:

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.7: Invalid SQL: REPLACE INTO vbsearch (userid, ipaddress, personal, searchuser, forumchoice, sortby, sortorder, searchtime, showposts, orderedids, dateline, displayterms, searchhash)VALUES (0, '66.249.66.104', 1, '*usernameremoved', '', 'post.dateline', 'DESC', 0.01297, 1, '182193,182192,181017', 1295908090, 'a:6:{s:5:\"words\";a:0:{}s:9:\"highlight\";a:0:{} s:6:\"common\";a:0:{}s:5:\"users\";a:1:{i:13090;s: 11:\"*usernameremoved\";}s:6:\"forums\";i:0;s:7:\" options\";a:3:{s:11:\"starteronly\";i:0;s:11:\"chi ldforums\";i:1;s:6:\"action\";s:7:\"process\";}}', '69414 nober shortened'); MySQL Error : Table 'my_database.vbsearch' doesn't existError Number : 1146Request Date : Monday, January 24th 2011 @ 10:28:10 PMError Date : Monday, January 24th 2011 @ 10:28:10 PMScript : http://www.myforum.com/post_thanks.p...=13090Referrer : IP Address : 66.249.66.104Username : UnregisteredClassname : vB_DatabaseMySQL Version :

What the heck is that all about? Does anyone know, and more importantly, how to correct it, please?

[creative-friend]

Its not working on 4.1.1

what do i do nw??

[djbaxter]

It does work for vB 4.1.1 so what you need to do now is to provide more details about how you installed it and what is or is not happening after you installed it.

[Master48]

I need this add for 4.1.1 can any one repair this add for 4.1.1?