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)
Added securty token check for all thanks added. This will prevent a user from giving out a link or somehow making an image that will get him a lot of thanks.
Should have fixed some 'foreach()' errors.
Fixed Delete All of a Users Thanks bug
vBulletin 3.7.x compatible only
Version 7.6 (06/02/08):
FIX: Fixed Security Check for vb 3.7.1
Updated files: functions_post_thanks.php
Version 7.7 (07/28/08):
FIX: Fixed problem with giving thanks using Blazer (palmOS browser).
Found 1 bug....
If I edit some user post (I am Admin), afther editing I can not give THANKS any more for that post because, THANKs MOD think that is my post then (I just edited user post).
Thanks, this works great for me. Had to edit it a bit to suit my needs but the idea was good.
One feature that it could use that would really make it great is to detect if a user posts "thnx" "thx" "thanks" "thank you" etc. and automatically convert that into a thank you instead of allowing the post!
I might create that myself if it doesn't already exist.
Found 1 bug....
If I edit some user post (I am Admin), afther editing I can not give THANKS any more for that post because, THANKs MOD think that is my post then (I just edited user post).
Hope you will understand me, what I try to say
i know about this. Something to do with the way vb works. i dont think i'll ever fix this. it's not a major bug. or cause any damage at all.
Hello, I would like to say thanks Abe1 for providing this great mod. Its take alot of time and effort to come up with something as creative and efficient as this.
Thanks {Clicked Installed}
I am running 3.8.0 on vBAdvanced and without any problems.
Update: I don't know why but after I gave up on it, everything started working automatically. Might have been cached template files or some other issue. Anyhow, everything is working now.... Thanks again...
This is one of the errors I'm receiving. I've re-installed the product and re-copied the files just to be sure but this error continually comes up when clicking the post thanks button.
The table, 'dennis1_vBulletin.post_thanks' does exist
PHP Code:
Database error in vBulletin 3.8.0:
Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM post_thanks AS post_thanks INNER JOIN user AS user USING (userid) WHERE post_thanks.postid IN (0,131703,131706,131715,131720) ORDER BY post_thanks.username ASC;
MySQL Error : Table 'dennis1_vBulletin.post_thanks' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Between this and the Groan modifications.... I wouldn't install either of them until the bugs have been worked out. When these two mods are installed, my site starts doing really strange things... Posts vanish then re-appear, numerous mySQL error messages, File's cannot be found messages (but only sometimes). They are just too buggy.... Too bad because I've always like these two mods and my users are crying that they are gone.
I posted this on the other version but had no feedback, so I'll give it a go on this one:
Just a visual example of what I think would be a good idea, any thoughts from anyone? What do you think, Abe1?
Just having it expressed as a percentage (minus 100% to make it tidier)
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01-19-2009, 06:44 PM
