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Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).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

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[tafreeh]

okay.. i uploaded my mod.. and i got db error.. plus admin cp post thanks is all empty... nothing shows up... any suggestions?

[ddaybofb]

Originally Posted by aj8690

Has anyone been able to get the button image to appear while using postbit legacy??? Thanks.

Nope i have the same problem, i got the thanks to work without the page reloading though

[tafreeh]

look like unstable release to me... will wait for the next version.....

[Rafes]

Installed 7.80 and works perfect

[tafreeh]

hey there... i just update my test forum(vb4) to the latest version and i get db errors.so i disabled it...

but when i get back to my live production site which is 3.8.4 i m still getting the same db errors everywhere... and i m using 7.7 overthere... it was working .. now all of sudden it producing errors...

here is the copy of one of the error...

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM vb_post_thanks AS post_thanks INNER JOIN vb_user AS user USING (userid) WHERE post_thanks.postid IN () ORDER BY post_thanks.username ASC;

MySQL Error  : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') ORDER BY post_thanks.username ASC' at line 1
Error Number  : 1064
Request Date  : Saturday, January 2nd 2010 @ 03:00:19 AM
Error Date    : Saturday, January 2nd 2010 @ 03:00:19 AM
Script        : http://www.xxxxx.com/ebooks-tutorials/33731-panther-vs-t-34-ukraine-1943-duel.html
Referrer      : 
IP Address    : xx.xx.xx.xx
Username      : Unregistered
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

*** please ignore this post... i uploaded wrong files.. Everything is working perfectly fine *** Thanks Abe

[I.am]

Same problem here, the product seem work fine, but if for any reason you want to uninstall it then you will get the db error.

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.0:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM post_thanks AS post_thanks INNER JOIN user AS user USING (userid) WHERE post_thanks.postid IN (826786,826923,826925,826928,827636,827643,828288, 828291,828300,828316,828330,82 8421,828434,828439,828447,828899,831966,831970,832 457,832460,832467,832529,83259 8) ORDER BY post_thanks.username ASC;

MySQL Error : Table 'xxxxx_xxxxxx.post_thanks' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Wednesday, December 30th 2009 @ 09:17:52 AM
Error Date : Wednesday, December 30th 2009 @ 09:17:53 AM
Script : http://forum.com/showthread.php?t=132731&page=4
Referrer : http://forum.com/
IP Address : xx.xx.xxx.xxx
Username : xxxxx
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.85-community-log

[Turbosport]

Postbit Legacy once button clicked IE7 users see blank posts, had to disable hack.

[SemperFideles]

I tried to manually add a Post Thanks Search to a Member's Profile page as following:

PHP Code:

<li><a href="post_thanks.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=findthanks&amp;userid={vb:raw userinfo.userid}">Find all Thanked Posts</a></li> 


I believe your findthanks and find_user_thanks functions within post_thanks.php are not properly functioning as it returns a dB error for the search function.

[gersforum@gmail]

Works an absolute treat. Thanks Abe!

[dtommy79]

It doesn't work for me, and since there seem to be no help here I just leave this mod for the time being.