Show Thread Enhancements - [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack

vB 3.7 version of this hack here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=165673
vB 4.0 version of this hack here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231666

Post Thank You Hack 7.4

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: (If installed on vb 3.7)

• Files edited: 0
• Templates edited: 0
• Files to upload: 7
• Time to install: 1 minute max

Updates:

Version 7.0 (12/20/07):

• Release of this hack for vBulletin version 3.7
• This version works on all vBulletin versions from 3.6.0 and up

Version 7.1 (12/24/07):

• Fixed up the vb3.7 profile block code including fixing showing your info and not the member you are looking at.

Version 7.2 (01/24/08):

• Updated files: post_thanks.php, functions_post_thanks.php
• Updated templates: post_thanks_memberinfo_block, post_thanks_member_info
• 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.

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You will get an email when a new version is released.

Pictures:

1. Showing the 'thanks' button and stats in Postbit
2. Showing post after 'thanks' (user view)
3. Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
4. Stats in members profile and link
5. Link in Search drop down menu
6. Hacks settings

[mauro1947]

Hi!
Upload the xml file to your server via FTP, and use from there.
Thanks
Bye!

[buontaiviem]

Ok, i will try like you said. Thanks.

[digital_sc4rz]

ThanX

[Glennskij]

Originally Posted by Abe1

Added to my do-do list.

Great!

But at second thought it might be better to give the users the option to show the thanks-box or not in the control panel (but have it _on_ as standard, eg when new users register, and for everyone who has not opted it not to show). The debate on my forum was that the thanks-box take up too much space, so maybe they won't like the blue collapsible-bar either...

I've got another request from my users as well:

Is it possible to make a link (search) on a kind of list over the posts a user has posted a "thank you" to also? Just like the kind that shows which posts has received a "thank you".

[aveon]

hey guys i have 2 suggestion to make this hack even better

first of all u shold insert a count up for thanx has been addad cause sometiome its bunch of pp; thanked and u dnt kno how many and it will be in an order like that


secondly u shud use username markup it looks better and cleaner


abe if u can edit the produck ill be glad and here is a snap which will make this clear

[RFViet]

I upgraded from vB3.5.5 to vB3.6.4 . How do i upgrade post thanks from old version to this version ??

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by RFViet

I upgraded from vB3.5.5 to vB3.6.4 . How do i upgrade post thanks from old version to this version ??

Just upload the new version.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by aveon

hey guys i have 2 suggestion to make this hack even better

first of all u shold insert a count up for thanx has been addad cause sometiome its bunch of pp; thanked and u dnt kno how many and it will be in an order like that


secondly u shud use username markup it looks better and cleaner


abe if u can edit the produck ill be glad and here is a snap which will make this clear

There is a count showing already right above all the thanks.

[RFViet]

Originally Posted by Abe1

Just upload the new version.

You mean, just overwrite the old version ??

[akanevsky]

Originally Posted by uncut76

Whoa!
Will save a lot of CPU Power on our Server!
Thanks a lot!

Actually, this hack uses up a lot of extra cpu, esppecially on large sites...

Abe1...
In javascript, lines of code should end with a ;... Otherwise the hack won't work on older browsers (as a matter of fact, it shouldn't work on new ones either, but strangely it does). Also, perhaps you should implement some sort of cache cause your hack has a lot of queries that could be eliminated, and goes through much more data than it could have. Just a suggestion.