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

[aveon]

Originally Posted by Abe1

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

no i mean show a count beside the number and the username markup if edit this itll look better

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

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.

Can you give me an example of how to make it use less?

This hack uses one query for evey showthread page shown. How can you get better?

I dont want to save the threadID since if you move a post, the thanks stay with it.

[Cybershaolin]

How could I have the Thank you button also available within the first post of a thread when you use the vBHack DB System v.1.0 here: http://www.vbviet.org/forums/showthread.php?t=371

Is it possible to integrate it or get some info how to do it?

[TrIn@dOr]

Do u have the PSD Button?, i need it to translate to Spanish!

Thanks in advance.

[LBmtb]

I tried searching this thread but couldn't find it. I'm pretty sure it would have been asked for before:

Is it possible to make a list of people who get the most thanks?

[marotichat]

Mods please delete this post.
Posted in wrong thread
Sorry
Thank you

[TrIn@dOr]

Originally Posted by marotichat

Thanks for your reply,
Yes I have the correct, and the latest version of the post thank-you hack (5.3) from Abe1.
In fact I have used it for quite a while before I installed your hide hack and I had no problem with it what so ever.
The strangest part is that after clicking the Thanks button, it disappears (the thanks button) so I have no idea what could be the problem.
Also as I mentioned in my previous post the other issue is that after navigating to another thread and returning where I previously pressed the thanks button the content is hidden again.
Thank you in advance for your feed back

First of all, u can't Thanks your self,

Second one, u can't Thnaks twice,

[ncangler]

Thank you for this great mod. I've noticed that if I go into a post and edit it for any reason that the Thank you button disappears. I can always be sure to thank someone before editing the post or I could turn on the option to Thank Self, but I wondered if there was a way to not have to turn that on and have the link still remain after editing? Thanks.

[TrIn@dOr]

Originally Posted by ncangler

Thank you for this great mod. I've noticed that if I go into a post and edit it for any reason that the Thank you button disappears. I can always be sure to thank someone before editing the post or I could turn on the option to Thank Self, but I wondered if there was a way to not have to turn that on and have the link still remain after editing? Thanks.

Thats true, need to be fixed!

But if you reload page, F5, the button apears again!

[ncangler]

You are right! I didn't realize that. Thank you. I'm good.

Originally Posted by TrIn@dOr

Thats true, need to be fixed!
But if you reload page, F5, the button apears again!