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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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 ***

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

I'm going to make a new thread. It's taken me some time but I finally got the Thanks/Groans integrated and working correctly on my site. If this guy comes back, I'll ask them to close my thread and give the hack back to him, but at this point we need somebody to update the hack and keep people updated. Is that kosher, or will I be burned to the ground for being a witch?

I've got everything working except the search function, and I'll attack that next as people want to be able to see who thanked who where, etc.

2 thumbs up here..
sounds like a great idea..

[Phaedrus]

Sweet. Tonight after I finish some tax work for a friend I'll get it all together and post both the Thanks and the Groans.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Vaira

If there is something not kosher then it is the fact that you have to pay for the importer of Dragon Bytes (DB) alternative : http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/threa...Thank-You-Hack

It is a shame that the original idea of abe1 is now used to make money by others.
DB knows that most of us already have a thanks database based on abe1's original hack.
Their free version doesn't provide the needed importer. So some swich over to DB and pay for the pro version to import the thanks database.
IMHO it is morally questionable what DB does.
It must be freeware to respect abe1's idea.

Hence I appreciate it very much that you can provide a fixed version of it.
I want to stick with abe1's hack as long as possible. I do not pay DB (importer) for something another has originally invented!!!

Thank you very much for your effort. :up:

Just a little note that Abe was far from the first person to create a thanks mod (It's very likely he got the idea elsewhere), and our modification does not use any code from Abe's mod - it is created from scratch with many more features than Abe's mod had =).

The idea of it being morally questionable to be paid for ones work seems odd to me, most people do not work for free, including yourself in all likelyhood

Iain

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

I'm going to make a new thread. It's taken me some time but I finally got the Thanks/Groans integrated and working correctly on my site. If this guy comes back, I'll ask them to close my thread and give the hack back to him, but at this point we need somebody to update the hack and keep people updated. Is that kosher, or will I be burned to the ground for being a witch?

I've got everything working except the search function, and I'll attack that next as people want to be able to see who thanked who where, etc.

Sounds excellent. Can you post here to let us know when you have a version available for download?

[Mr. Kage]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

I'm going to make a new thread. It's taken me some time but I finally got the Thanks/Groans integrated and working correctly on my site. If this guy comes back, I'll ask them to close my thread and give the hack back to him, but at this point we need somebody to update the hack and keep people updated. Is that kosher, or will I be burned to the ground for being a witch?

I've got everything working except the search function, and I'll attack that next as people want to be able to see who thanked who where, etc.

That would be excellent. Please do.

[Phaedrus]

Updated version for 4.1.x and Groan Integration can be found here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=261866

Should Abe1 ever return, I will return his hack to the original Author.

[gnrx]

Originally Posted by mitch84

in template post_thanks_postbit_info
search and replace all vb:stylevar right by vb:stylevar left

When reply to you (again, thank for your help) I indicated that solved my problem.

But now, I view other problem, some users, in postbit appears the thanks in the same line, others users, appears well (in differents lines).

I attach a images.

In first image, appears well the "Thanked", in image 2, appears in the same line.

How I can solved this?

Thanks and regards!

[andy626]

I have been using this for a while and my members love it, so thank you!

Does anyone know if theres a way to find what post people thanked you in?

I get this question a lot when they log in and see 10 new thanks tallys on their profile but don't know what posts they were thanked for...

That would be very handy.

[Phaedrus]

Originally Posted by andy626

I have been using this for a while and my members love it, so thank you!

Does anyone know if theres a way to find what post people thanked you in?

I get this question a lot when they log in and see 10 new thanks tallys on their profile but don't know what posts they were thanked for...

That would be very handy.

Set it to add to the reputation, this will give a notification link to the post that was thanked.

[docvader]

For some reason, this version seems to be working on 4.13. As I've had it installed previously on 4.04. Upgrading does not seem to have changed the function of this hack.

Or am I missing something....