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).
Hi. I did something really dumb. It was late, and for some reason while upgrading from vb 3.6.8 to 3.7 I uninstalled the old thanks before installing the new one. Everyone lost their thanks and some people are pissed. I have good daily backups. I restored the post_thanks table. What else do I need to restore to make the thanks show up in threads and have the thanks counts be correct? Thank you very much!
On our MySQL Server (5.2.5) I'm just reporting this too you on install took about 1 minute to go thru and install via the product plugin xml:
Quote:
TOP:
PID USER PR NI %CPU TIME+ %MEM VIRT RES SHR S COMMAND
23299 mysql 22 6 72.7 9:49.76 5.8 370m 117m 3908 S /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var
Just wanted to point this too you so if others have issues you may wanna look into this.
I did an strace on the PID as well at the same time and confirmed it was this install.
Great hack. Thanks a bunch. I've modified it a bit to act more or less like a Digg system. Saved me a lot of time.
My only question, is there a way to show the search results as thread titles only? I've modified $showposts in post_thanks.php to 0, but it still shows the posts and not thread titles only. Any help appreciated.
Is there a way to disable the auto-insert of the thanks button, and manually add it to skins? This hack works fine, but it's putting my (heavy) normal thanks button into my mobile theme, and I can't seem to find where to remove it.
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03-26-2008, 10:22 PM
