Post Thank You Hack 1.10

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Post Thank You Hack 1.10

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.

The hack has been tested VERY well, including 5 weeks of beta testing, but I'm only human I can't guaranty there are no problems.

There is a similar hack called 'Automatic Thank You Hack'. That hack only lets you thank the first post of a thread and not just any post. The options in this hack doesn't compare to my hack. It's also unsupportive and was release for an older version of vBulletin.

Features:

• Comes with easy installer/updater/uninstaller file
• Places an easy to use button next to the edit button
• Separate looks for postbit and postbit_legacy
• Places all Thank Yous into one small box
• [NEW]Uses only ONE query every time you view a showthread page!
• Users can't thank twice
• Users can't 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 Thank Yous from a single post
• Turn on and off hack
• 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
• [NEW]Option to add to post count when someone clicks 'thanks'.
• [NEW]Option to give a user who receives thanks reputation points.
• Ban Usergroups
• Ban Users
• Update Counters in ACP (found in 'Import & Maintenance')
• Uses Phrases
• Guaranteed to be liked by ALL users on your forum!

Installation information on hack:

• Files edited: 3
• Templates edited: 4
• New Phrases: 44 (installer installs them)
• New Templates: 2 (installer installs them)
• Queries: 15 excluding phase and template queries (installer installs it)
• Files to upload: 4
• Time to install: between 5-10 minutes

Updates:

Version 1.0 (12/28/04):

• Release

Version 1.01 (1/10/05):

• [FIX]Templates stay when you upgrade your forum

Version 1.02 (2/22/05):

• [NEW]Installer Has Installer for After You Upgrade Your Forum
• [NEW]Search for a users thanked posts
• [NEW]Search for all thanked posts

Version 1.03 (2/23/05):

• [FIX]Turn hack on for only first posts of threads now works

Version 1.10 (5/9/05):

• [FIX]Compatibility for vBulletin 3.0.7
• [FIX]Reduced the amount of queries need to run this hack every time you view a showthread page to only ONE query. No more 1 to 2 queries per post that comes up.
• [FIX]I cached the templates used to save 1 query.
• [NEW]Option to add to post count when someone clicks 'thanks'.
• [NEW]Option to give a user who receives thanks reputation points.

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
2. Showing post after 'thanks' (admin view)
3. Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
4. Stats in member?s profile
5. Hacks settings
6. Update counts view

I'll try to get some updated pictures up soon.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by -=Sniper=-

Hey, I'm not sure if its during the new install or update, I had no options displaying in control panel, so I used the script to insert again, but got a error! so looking at the entries in phpmyadmin I found the values were in the wrong place.

the values for "disaply order" are in the "default value" field, vice versa.

the values for "group title" are in the "value" field

the values for "option code" are in the "group title" field

and the value for "values" are in the "option code" field!

use this in phpmyadmin to update, if you have this problem. (change setting to your prefix_setting).

PHP Code:

UPDATE `setting` SET `varname` = 'post_thanks_date_all', `value` = '1', `optioncode` = 'yesno', `displayorder` = 50, `grouptitle` = 'post_thanks', `defaultvalue` = '1', `advanced` = 0, `volatile` = 0 WHERE  `varname` = 'post_thanks_date_all';
UPDATE `setting` SET `varname` = 'post_thanks_date_forum', `value` = '', `optioncode` = '', `displayorder` = 60, `grouptitle` = 'post_thanks', `defaultvalue` = '0', `advanced` = 0, `volatile` = 0 WHERE  `varname` = 'post_thanks_date_forum';
UPDATE `setting` SET `varname` = 'post_thanks_forum_first', `value` = '', `optioncode` = '', `displayorder` = 40, `grouptitle` = 'post_thanks', `defaultvalue` = '0', `advanced` = 0, `volatile` = 0 WHERE  `varname` = 'post_thanks_forum_first';
UPDATE `setting` SET `varname` = 'post_thanks_forum_first_all', `value` = '0', `optioncode` = 'yesno', `displayorder` = 30, `grouptitle` = 'post_thanks', `defaultvalue` = '0', `advanced` = 0, `volatile` = 0 WHERE  `varname` = 'post_thanks_forum_first_all';
UPDATE `setting` SET `varname` = 'post_thanks_forum_off', `value` = '', `optioncode` = '', `displayorder` = 20, `grouptitle` = 'post_thanks', `defaultvalue` = '0', `advanced` = 0, `volatile` = 0 WHERE  `varname` = 'post_thanks_forum_off';
UPDATE `setting` SET `varname` = 'post_thanks_on_off', `value` = '1', `optioncode` = 'yesno', `displayorder` = 10, `grouptitle` = 'post_thanks', `defaultvalue` = '1', `advanced` = 0, `volatile` = 0 WHERE  `varname` = 'post_thanks_on_off';
UPDATE `setting` SET `varname` = 'post_thanks_usergroup_using', `value` = '', `optioncode` = '', `displayorder` = 70, `grouptitle` = 'post_thanks', `defaultvalue` = '0', `advanced` = 0, `volatile` = 0 WHERE  `varname` = 'post_thanks_usergroup_using';
UPDATE `setting` SET `varname` = 'post_thanks_user_useing', `value` = '', `optioncode` = '', `displayorder` = 80, `grouptitle` = 'post_thanks', `defaultvalue` = '0', `advanced` = 0, `volatile` = 0 WHERE  `varname` = 'post_thanks_user_useing'; 


I think something was changed in recent vb releases. I'm going to add the field names to my next release.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by smacklan

When I try to run the uninstall I get the following:

PHP Code:

Warning: Unknown(/home/strength/public_html/forum/admincp/post_thanks_install.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown(/home/strength/public_html/forum/admincp/post_thanks_install.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0

Warning: (null)(): Failed opening '/home/strength/public_html/forum/admincp/post_thanks_install.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in Unknown on line 0 


Need help!

I've got no clue.

[-=Sniper=-]

suggestions for a page which displays

Most Thanked Post | Most Thanked User | Most Thanks Given

(or top 10 for each)

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by -=Sniper=-

suggestions for a page which displays

Most Thanked Post | Most Thanked User | Most Thanks Given

(or top 10 for each)

When I have a chance, I'll be making one for CMPS Portal.

[Polo]

Originally Posted by Abe1

When I have a chance, I'll be making one for CMPS Portal.

Awesome, I'm interested too...

[Martin CX]

I get no AdminCP controls? As you can see in the screenshot there is nothing there?

It doesn't turn up in the left navbar either, though that isn't a major problem as I can just type in the URL for the post_thanks_acp.php.

Please, what went wrong?

[MP3]

lets try it

[Bubble #5]

We are using 3.07 but our memberinfo appears to be different .

The instructions for this mod say:

In Template MEMBERINFO: Find:

$vbphrase[total_posts]: <strong>$userinfo[posts]</strong> (<phrase 1="$postsperday">$vbphrase[x_posts_per_day]</phrase>)

However that does not exsist

The closest that we have is:

 <td width="40%" class="infoleft">$vbphrase[total_posts]</td>
<td width="60%" class="inforight"><strong>$userinfo[posts]</strong> (<phrase 1="$postsperday">$vbphrase[x_posts_per_day]</phrase>)</td>

How should we alter that so that the mod works correctly? Thanks.

[JohnBee]

I am freaking out with this hack!

I was running the older 1.02 ver at some point.
I updated it but the hack never really worked up tp snuff when someone clicks the
thank you button it doesn show the thanks panel but then everyone else gets
a thank you button under that thread.

also, it shows the button in forums that are not suppose to show thanks.

I know I have some code from older version still mixed in, I did the uninstall
but with all the changes I don't know which order to run things anymore!

is there another way to clean out every bit of code from every version from
my forums and start fresh?

[Bubble #5]

Hi John. Sadly I don't think this hack is being supported anymore My question has been sitting there for several days now (as of this post) with no response Regarding your question, don't you have backups of before you installed the hack? If not, then I would work backwards and make sure that everything is removed from the install. For example; if it says "add xxx after yyy" then make sure that xxx is no longer in your code...