[AJAX] Post Thank You Hack

Post Thank You Hack 4.5

Click here for the vb3.6 version of this hack.

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 granted 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: 4
• Files to upload: 1
• Time to install: 5 minutes max

Updates:

Version 2.0 GOLD (10/02/05):

• GOLD Release of this hack for vBulletin version 3.5

Version 2.1 (10/23/05):

• [BUG FIX] When merging/splitting threads
• [BUG FIX] When a user deletes his thanks (now removes post/rep count if option(s) on)
• [ADD PHRASE] post_thanks_user_says
• [ADD PHRASE] post_thanks_time_post
• [ADD PHRASE] post_thanks_times_post
• [ADD PHRASE] post_thanks_times_posts
• [DELETED PHRASE] post_thanks_thanks_amount

Version 2.2 (10/23/05):

• [ADDED] Re-counters. Found under Maintenance->Update Counters in your ACP.

Version 2.3 (11/05/05):

• [ADDED] Cache Templates

Version 2.4 (11/07/05):

• [ADDED] Setting to disallow users from deleting their own thanks.

Version 2.5 (11/09/05):

• [FIXED] All number outputs run through your vb setting of number format. (e.g. 1234 will now show as 1,234)

Version 2.6 (12/04/05):

• [FIXED] Number outputs for numbers between 1,000 and 1,999
• [FIXED] Showing of the thanks button on deleted threads pages.

Version 2.7 (12/18/05):

• [ADDED] Made the Thanks button a template
• [ADDED] Made a template group for this hacks templates
• [FIXED] One template edit. Find correction in zip file.
• [CHANGED] Made a pop-up now when you click Thanks instead of refreshing the page.
• [FIXED] Made the line when you give reputation points for thanks, a phrase.
• [ADDED] Paypal link so you can make a donation for this hack.

Version 2.8 (2/5/06):

• [FIXED] Removed one query thanks to AnhTuanCool (Abe clicks 'thanks')
• [ADDED] Option to allow users to thank their own post
• [ADDED] Option to allow a pop=up or refresh after a user clicks thanks

Version 2.9 (2/8/06):

• [FIXED] Fixed allot of things in regard to deleting thanks using the "remove all thanks" and "Remove your thanks".

Version 3.0 (2/10/06):

• [FIXED] Fixed one more thing in regard to "remove all thanks".
• [FIXED] Re-wrote the thanks actions so it they useless queried when you give or remove thanks.

Version 3.1 (2/11/06):

• [FIXED] Fixed bug with reputation.

Version 3.2 (2/13/06):

• [FIXED] Fixed another bug with reputation.
• [FIXED] Sped up the one query used to retrieve the thanks.

Version 3.3 (2/14/06):

• [FIXED] Fixed bug with removing own thanks.

Version 3.4 (3/17/06):

• [FIXED] Fixed a few bugs.

Version 4.0 (4/17/06):

• [ADDED] AJAX technology so your users don't have to refresh the page they are viewing!

Version 4.1 (4/18/06):

• [FIXED] Crashing of 'quick reply' when using Firefox.

Version 4.2 (4/23/06):

• [FIXED] If you have vboption 'Add Template Name in HTML Comments' set to 'Yes', button was not showing.
• [FIXED] Uncached template when viewing a PM
• [FIXED] Getting sent to index page when clicking thanks on some forums.
• [FIXED] Link to member's profile from the thank box.
• [FIXED] The post thank count not updating. (Recommend you recount thanks. (ACP->Maintenance->Update Counters)

Version 4.3 (5/4/06):

• [FIXED] Optimized a lot of the templates.
• [ADDED] Easy integration with my Post Groan Hack.

Version 4.4 (5/7/06):

• [FIXED] Bug with AJAX if you had the date showing.

Version 4.5 (6/19/06):

• [FIXED] Bug with AJAX if you had hacks that added things to your output.

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

MAKE SURE YOU CLICK INSTALL!
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' (admin view)
4. Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
5. Stats in members profile and link
6. Link in Search drop down menu
7. Hacks settings

This hack is created for your use free of charge. No payment is requested. However, if you would like to donate money for the work I put in to this hack, a donation would show your appreciation.

[crazykid13045]

i would like to know if theys edits in the zip need to be done

template changes between 2_0GOLD and 2_1.txt

template changes between 2_5 and 2_6.txt

template changes between 2_6 and 2_7.txt

i have the version 4.2 of this hack?

[stinger2]

Originally Posted by Cybernetec

IDEA!

What about new column on thread listing where number of thanks hits in initial post of thread will be shown?

Photoshoped:

thats a very nice idea........it will give a purpose for members to see the result......

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Cybernetec

IDEA!

What about new column on thread listing where number of thanks hits in initial post of thread will be shown?

Photoshoped:

Nice Idea. What would the link in the numbers be to though?

I would have to add another column to the thread table to get these stats also.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by crazykid13045

i would like to know if theys edits in the zip need to be done

template changes between 2_0GOLD and 2_1.txt

template changes between 2_5 and 2_6.txt

template changes between 2_6 and 2_7.txt

i have the version 4.2 of this hack?

Only if you are upgrading.

[RS_Jelle]

It's a good idea, but another column in thread table isn't the best thing. Maybe you can make more than one version of this hack (and keep them in the same thread ofcourse).

And maybe you can also keep providing version 3.4 for people who don't like the AJAX feature? I'm using it and I like it a lot, but I can imagine that some people would like to use the original version without AJAX. There aren't any known bugs in it, so I think it would be a good idea to keep it avaiable for download

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by RS_Jelle

It's a good idea, but another column in thread table isn't the best thing. Maybe you can make more than one version of this hack (and keep them in the same thread ofcourse).

And maybe you can also keep providing version 3.4 for people who don't like the AJAX feature? I'm using it and I like it a lot, but I can imagine that some people would like to use the original version without AJAX. There aren't any known bugs in it, so I think it would be a good idea to keep it avaiable for download

Next release should have a feature to turn AJAX on and off.

[Valter]

Originally Posted by Abe1

Nice Idea. What would the link in the numbers be to though?

I would have to add another column to the thread table to get these stats also.

The first post in thread (which is thanked x times).

Ability to enable/disable column would be great also.

[Hornstar]

What features does the thanks system have with ajax? and what is the refresh time? is this server intensive on a large forum? and maybe an option for us to set the refresh time to what we like.

Thanks

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

What features does the thanks system have with ajax? and what is the refresh time? is this server intensive on a large forum? and maybe an option for us to set the refresh time to what we like.

Thanks

When a user clicks 'thanks', the page does NOT refresh but, it removes the button and adds the user to the thank list.

[Bubble #5]

Hi Abe We have version 2.5 installed. How hard would it be to update to the current version? We're worried mostly about template changes...

If we're reading this right then after 2.7 there are no other template changes, correct? So we would go 2.5 to 2.6, and 2.6 to 2.7 and that should be it correct?