Show Thread Enhancements - [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack

Post Thank You Hack

STAFF EDIT:
Note - The mod author has been unreachable for some time, but the vbulletin.org community has stepped up to provide a number of individual fixes over the years. ForceHSS, Hippy, and Seven Skins have all combined many of these fixes into product files.

ALL CREDIT STILL GOES TO ABE1 And this is still 'his' mod. Please still mark the mod as installed if you use any version of it.

That said so you don't need to apply a dozen + small fixes yourself you should consider downloading one of the updated packages below:

Hippy has one in this post.

AND / OR

ForceHSS has one in this post.

AND/OR

Seven Skins has one in this post.


- Original File Specs: post_thanks_7_82.zip (26.4 KB, 24844 downloads) - Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).
- There are five total patched versions available, some with and without the search fix - I've replaced the main file with the patched versions... please be sure to download and install the correct version, the main mod post contains links to additional information and patched files!
- If Abe1 returns he can request these packages be removed.


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:

• Files edited: 0
• Templates edited: 0
• Files to upload: 8
• Time to install: 1 minute max

Updates:


Version 7.80 (12/30/09):

• Release of this hack for vBulletin version 4.0

Version 7.81 (01/02/10):

• Fixed some install and uninstall database errors.
• Made styling for postbit legacy a little better.
• Fixed the "separator" issue.
• Javascript file updated.

Version 7.82 (01/03/10):

• Fixed info alignment issues in the postbit for custom edited phrases.

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[sontran]

I don't have that mod

I checked in the post_thanks.php and found thse lines

PHP Code:

// check if search already done
    //if ($search = $db->query_first("SELECT searchid FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "search AS search WHERE searchhash = '" . $db->escape_string($searchhash) . "'"))
    //{
    //    $vbulletin->url = 'search.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . "searchid=$search[searchid]";
    //    eval(print_standard_redirect('search'));
    //} 


It refer to a table name prefix ... search but in the db I couldn't found any table having that name!

Could you please kindly check and let us know about that!

Thanks

[Abe1]

Like I posted before, I'll post again. There is NO working search feature currently in Post Thanx Hack. All template edits are done automatically. If you have users searching, then it means you have a manual edit. REMOVE IT. You can find edits by searching "post thank" in a template search.

[RS_Jelle]

Some suggestions:

1. Fix the missing <dt> in the postbit. It's making the definition list XHTML invalid and causing some incompatibilities with other mods.

Current style:

Thanks: x
Thanked x times in x posts

Suggested style:

Thanks: x
Thanked: x times in x posts

2. Get rid of the inline CSS for people with CSS stored as files. With the new XML based CSS rollups you can merge it into showthread-rollup.css
And put a conditional around the JavaScript include so it's not loaded for people who can't thank a thread. Less includes give you a better Google page speed result.

Create /includes/xml/cssrollup_postthanks.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<css product="post_thanks">
	<rollup name="showthread-rollup.css">
		<template>postthanks.css</template>
	</rollup>
</css>

and create a new postthanks.css template with the raw CSS.

Then put some conditionals into the post_thanks_javascript template:

<vb:if condition="permission to thank">
	<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/post_thanks.js"></script>
</vb:if>

<vb:if condition="!$vboptions['storecssasfile']">
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{vb:raw vbcsspath}postthanks.css" />
</vb:if>

[shempsall2009]

Hi Great Mod... Installed...

If you update this again would it be possible to have an option to hide attachments until Thanks Button is click???

Thanks

[Golzarion]

Originally Posted by RS_Jelle

Some suggestions:

Nice idea..

[Valter]

You must not completely disable 'Top Thanked' in VSa - Advanced Stats to avoid database errors.

Just replace:

<a href="post_thanks.php?do=findthanks&u={vb:raw getstats_thx.userid}">{vb:raw getstats_thx.post_thanks_thanked_times}</a>

with:

{vb:raw getstats_thx.post_thanks_thanked_times}

in 'vsa_topstats_thanks' template.

[cmeinck]

Originally Posted by Abe1

Like I posted before, I'll post again. There is NO working search feature currently in Post Thanx Hack. All template edits are done automatically. If you have users searching, then it means you have a manual edit. REMOVE IT. You can find edits by searching "post thank" in a template search.

I haven't edited the hack in any way, yet I'm getting search db errors -- and I get them in bucket loads.

[cmeinck]

I'm sure I'm not the only one, so would appreciate any help on how to prevent these database errors. As far as I can tell, there are no visible links to "find thanks".

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.3:

Invalid SQL:

			REPLACE INTO search (userid, ipaddress, personal, searchuser, forumchoice, sortby, sortorder, searchtime, showposts, orderedids, dateline, displayterms, searchhash)
			VALUES (0, '66.249.65.181', 1, 'manic', '', 'post.dateline', 'DESC', 0.12551, 1, '351328,351311,348467,348466,346458,346411,344262,342697,342689', 1274289300, 'a:6:{s:5:\"words\";a:0:{}s:9:\"highlight\";a:0:{}s:6:\"common\";a:0:{}s:5:\"users\";a:1:{i:118484;s:5:\"manic\";}s:6:\"forums\";i:0;s:7:\"options\";a:3:{s:11:\"starteronly\";i:0;s:11:\"childforums\";i:1;s:6:\"action\";s:7:\"process\";}}', 'cd78b1a0b7a48890db58b480739e121c');

MySQL Error   : Table 'my_forum.search' doesn't exist
Error Number  : 1146
Request Date  : Wednesday, May 19th 2010 @ 12:15:00 PM
Error Date    : Wednesday, May 19th 2010 @ 12:15:01 PM
Script        : http://www.mysite.com/forum/post_thanks.php?do=findthanks_user_gave&u=118484
Referrer      : 
IP Address    : 66.249.65.181
Username      : Unregistered
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

[Thousand Sunny]

I can not find a Thanks Button!!!!!!!

[Mastergumble]

Originally Posted by Valter

You must not completely disable 'Top Thanked' in VSa - Advanced Stats to avoid database errors.

Just replace:

<a href="post_thanks.php?do=findthanks&u={vb:raw getstats_thx.userid}">{vb:raw getstats_thx.post_thanks_thanked_times}</a>

with:

{vb:raw getstats_thx.post_thanks_thanked_times}

in 'vsa_topstats_thanks' template.

Thanks Valter, the step was to prevent users to follow the ammount of thanked links.