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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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

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by TTG

Thanks for the quick update for folks on 3.6.6 Abe1 .. installed and works well :up:

Might be a good idea to list the template edits to be removed in the 6.1 instructions.

You can download the version 6.0 and look there or do a template search for 'post thank' and it will bring up all edit locations.

Originally Posted by Zagis

Ok, I see what you mean now, but no there is not any $template_hooks in the postbit. I have re imported product-post_thanks.xml 4 times (Allow Overwrite "YES").

If you dont have $template_hooks in your postbit template then you do not have an up-to-date vb template for version 3.6.6.

[shamda]

I just upgraded to 3.6.6 and also upgraded the thank you hack. I deleted the template edits made with the prior version per the instructions. I installed this update after deleting the template edits made last time. I uploaded the files per the instructions and installed the product per the instructions. Problem is that now the thank you buttons do not appear and the stats do not appear anywhere either. Did I miss something?

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by shamda

I just upgraded to 3.6.6 and also upgraded the thank you hack. I deleted the template edits made with the prior version per the instructions. I installed this update after deleting the template edits made last time. I uploaded the files per the instructions and installed the product per the instructions. Problem is that now the thank you buttons do not appear and the stats do not appear anywhere either. Did I miss something?

Did you update your templates to new changes that vb3.6.6 made?

[RS_Jelle]

When the button isn't hidden, you can find style="display:" in the HTML source code. This is causing a CSS error (empty element). It would be nice to wrap a conditional arround the style attribute to hide it when it's not necessary

Nice new release. vBulletin upgrades are becoming less and less painful for a modded board.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by RS_Jelle

When the button isn't hidden, you can find style="display:" in the HTML source code. This is causing a CSS error (empty element). It would be nice to wrap a conditional arround the style attribute to hide it when it's not necessary

Nice new release. vBulletin upgrades are becoming less and less painful for a modded board.

Will look into.

[Jibreil]

I did a install on a fresh installation of vBulletin with a non-default template, the "Thank You" button doesnt appear.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Jibreil

I did a install on a fresh installation of vBulletin with a non-default template, the "Thank You" button doesnt appear.

Well use the history feature to match the template up with the original so you can see what you are missing.

[dope15gd]

Originally Posted by Abe1

Can you try viewing it on a default vb 3.6.6 style?

That seems to be the problem. I reverted everything, but I am missing that hook so that is the problem. I'm going to look into getting the hook fixed.

thanks

[LockeAG]

I have a little proble...

I'm on vb3.6.7 , and I revert all templates , an d when I active the plugin this tiem the postbit reproduce a lot of

Thanks: 0
 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post 
 Thanks: 0
 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post 
 Thanks: 0
 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts 
 Thanks: 0
 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post 
 Thanks: 0
 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts 
 Thanks: 0
 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts 
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 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts 
 Thanks: 0
 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts 
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 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

I add some 2 images.

Thanks!
see'a

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by LockeAG

I have a little proble...

I'm on vb3.6.7 , and I revert all templates , an d when I active the plugin this tiem the postbit reproduce a lot of

Thanks: 0
 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post 
 Thanks: 0
 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post 
 Thanks: 0
 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts 
 Thanks: 0
 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post 
 Thanks: 0
 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts 
 Thanks: 0
 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts 
 Thanks: 0
 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts 
 Thanks: 0
 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts 
 Thanks: 0
 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

I add some 2 images.

Thanks!
see'a

I did not test vb3.6.7 yet, but if this happens, then it seems like a vb problem. The hook should not be kept from one postbit to the next. I will try to check it out later.