Show Thread Enhancements - [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack

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

Post Thank You Hack 7.7

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.

Version 7.5 (05/12/08):

• Updated files: post_thanks.js, post_thanks.php, functions_post_thanks.php
• Updated template: post_thanks_button
• 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).
• Updated file: post_thanks.js
• Updated templates: post_thanks_button, post_thanks_postbit, post_thanks_postbit_legacy
• New option: Show Stats in Postbit?
• New option: Show Stats in Profile?

Please post your comments or suggestions for this hack. I read ALL posts.

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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

[wsdeluxe]

Is there any way to integrate this into vbcredits to give the OP points when his/her post is thanked?

Thanks

[metin]

thanx working..

[irfreedownload]

hi
my version is 5.11
and upgrade to 7.4. but when click the thanks button this button removed but thanks not worked. when refresh this page thanks button is back!!!!

[MSheraz86]

Thanks for this hack, abe1

[Dabbi]

Most of my board members are enjoying this but I have a couple questions.

Is there a way for a member to find out which posts they were thanked for?
What exactly does "Markup username" mean and/or do? (Sorry.. I'm still pretty green with the lingo. )

[MSheraz86]

^^ Markup username basically shows the colour of ur username.

If in Admin Control Panel (ACP) you have made the admin's username colour into orange then the markup username option will show all admins username's in orange colour, whereas if you select NO as the option then their username will be shown in the colour that ur links are in.

[Dabbi]

Ah, okay. Thank you for the explanation.

Since I don't have admin's usernames in a color (I don't know how to do that yet) I suppose it's a mote point to have markup username as yes then.

FWIW we also finally found where to find out which posts we had been thanked for.

[Murty]

I'm having the same problem.

[luckylinux]

sorry to disturb you guys but as configured as i would expect and with every file uploaded, product whole imported to the last version, I cannot get it working.
Firsty it doesn't show up at all and i had to work hard and edit 2 plugins (it said: display: none in CSS :S).
Then, what i cannot solve, is that when I click "Thanks" the button hides himselft, but the notification of my thanking doesn't show up and neither after a whole page reloading.
I use vbulletin 3.7.0 and what I get from a click to the img "Thank is":

undefined&securitytoken=15eaa76baa16c4889b65397d141041c187edb4a0&s=

I have to say the plugin is enabled, and has no forum ids exclusion ... so what's the problem ? I think the problemi is inside that undefined (doesn't sound good at all for me).
An of you guys can figure this out ?
Please let me know and sorry for my poor english
Luckylinux

EDIT: sorry guys, after an uninstall and a clean installation now it works ... althought it seems very strange ... now it works !

[Aren]

Hi there again.

Did the test of uninstalling the hack and installing it again and same as before: some users get the token error.

What's even more strange is that a user reported that using Firefox 3.0 B5 he got the error but using IE 7 it worked fine.