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

[gbml4u]

everything is working for me well , but i have some problem that thank buttons can be displayed in my Forum and in the readme file , i have found not thing.

Can anybody in here tell me how can i add this thank button to my site ?

thx in advanved

[zglows]

Originally Posted by zetetic

I'd like to see this feature added too. I love this add-on (thanks Abe!), but as it works today people have no way of knowing when someone thanks them for an old post unless they go looking for it.

ETA: It'd be even better if receiving notifications was user-optional.

i want this!!!
can i set limits to give thanks by day?

[bokmade]

Thanks, Can We Add How Many Thanks The Theard Got Next To View Or Reply ?

And Thanks Again ..

[rinkrat]

I just pruned a bunch of old threads and it removes the thanks for all of thos threads when you do this. Is there any way to let the number of thanks remain even though the thread has been purged?

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by oldengine

Admincp > Post Thanks > Special Actions
Delete All of a User's Thanks
This action will delete all thanks a single user gave.

Has anyone used this? Does it work at all?

I ran it on both a user number and user name and it does absolutely nothing. It acts like it's processing, but the thanks are all still there.

User's Total Thanks: 5,275

I advise caution before you put this on a big board! I have 3,497 pages of table data in post_thanks which apparently includes 105,886 thanks.

The users love it, but thats the problem. I have users who think it's their lot in life to thank every damn post on the board!

I really need to do a query on this thing, flush the toilet and start over.

Does uninstalling this hack empty the table?

Or, is this as simple as selecting the post_thanks table in PhpMyadmin, selecting all five fields and hitting the EMPTY button?

Un-installing the hack then re-installing would be the best way to flush all the info.

Originally Posted by rinkrat

I just pruned a bunch of old threads and it removes the thanks for all of thos threads when you do this. Is there any way to let the number of thanks remain even though the thread has been purged?

I'll see if I can make it an option.

[oldengine]

I have some serious issues with using this hack on a big board. I tried the truncating and that made a mess, so I restored my backup.

I tried uninstalling and that ends up timing out with a white screen on the admin control panel.

I tried reinstalling and now I'm sitting on a screen that says Importing Product, Please Wait...
It just sits there after showing: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: to infinity...

Maybe my board is too big? Posts: 243,952

As it sits now, I have the hack disabled and the post_thanks table did empty out after several attempts at uninstalling. Basically, I think there are time-out issues when doing the install/uninstall functions through admincp on a board of this size. As I said above, I have had this hack for a long time, but over that time, users have abused the function and put it into overload.

This is an excellent hack that is appreciated by the majority of users. Like as in anything else, 10% of the users will cause 90% of your trouble. The best resolution is to make sure that the REMOVE ALL thanks by a user function is working well.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by oldengine

I have some serious issues with using this hack on a big board. I tried the truncating and that made a mess, so I restored my backup.

I tried uninstalling and that ends up timing out with a white screen on the admin control panel.

I tried reinstalling and now I'm sitting on a screen that says Importing Product, Please Wait...
It just sits there after showing: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: to infinity...

Maybe my board is too big? Posts: 243,952

As it sits now, I have the hack disabled and the post_thanks table did empty out after several attempts at uninstalling. Basically, I think there are time-out issues when doing the install/uninstall functions through admincp on a board of this size. As I said above, I have had this hack for a long time, but over that time, users have abused the function and put it into overload.

This is an excellent hack that is appreciated by the majority of users. Like as in anything else, 10% of the users will cause 90% of your trouble. The best resolution is to make sure that the REMOVE ALL thanks by a user function is working well.

The timeout issues were resolved by this version. Which version are you uploading?

[SNATCH3R]

Thanks a lot for this......

[BadgerDog]

Installed and testing .... :up:

How does one get the graphic "Thanks" button to match our style, instead of being the standard default vBulletin colors?

Thanks ...

Regards,
Badger

Edit: Tested....

There's some kind of problem with Horizontal and Vertical postbit templates....

This phrase:

Thanks: 0
Thanked 2 Times in 1 Post

Appears under the UserName information etc, in the Horizontal post bit template, even when the mod is turned OFF. Ironically, it doesn't appear at all in the Vertical postbit template, whether the mod is turned OFF or ON. Anyone else notice this and have a fix?

[pvalderh]

Couldnt find any info on this, but the users of our forum who uses Opera cant get this feature to work. Simply nothing happens when they click the button. It works fine in IE, FF, Safari, but not in Opera.

Are there any known issues with this hack and Opera? Or maybe it is Ajax in Opera?