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 cjwinternet

Hi, can this be amended to say something other than 'thanks', more like 'wxxxxr' or something?

Sure. Everything is easily editable. You can edit the phrases and images as you wish. You can also edit the templates if you need.

[subnet_rx]

What if you want the template edits to be custom and don't want the automatic edits? I've had the buttons before the quote button since this hack came out, now it's behind.

[diim_nowa]

Abe1,
Some threads on forum have the mistake like this on the top on the page:
(Im running 3.6.7PL1)

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/functions_post_thanks.php on line 183

[Bounce]

not working in 3.6.7 pl1 ... not showing the image , its in right directory , was getting above error also a while ago

[Hornstar]

Originally Posted by diim_nowa

Abe1,
Some threads on forum have the mistake like this on the top on the page:
(Im running 3.6.7PL1)

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/functions_post_thanks.php on line 183

so it wasnt just me. hope this can be fixed soon then, as its occuring on my forums still, and i pointed it out over a month ago as well. thanks.

[Doglet]

3.6.7-PL1 - Post Thanks 6.2. I am getting the list of who gave thanks after every post, even though it is set to the first post only for those forums. Also, the Thaks button is visible on every post as well, not just the first. Any ideas?

It is also doubling and tripling up on all the information in the postbit?

[Omega409]

I have the same problem! Also after deinstalling some SQL error?s like:

Datenbankfehler in vBulletin 3.6.7:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT postid
FROM post AS post
INNER JOIN thread AS thread ON(thread.threadid = post.threadid)
WHERE post.userid = 101
AND post.post_thanks_amount != 0
AND thread.forumid IN(6,7,34,8,18,29,31,30,61,52,65,69,68,77,51,9,19, 20,21,26,28,62,10,11,12,49,13,14,15,63,54,16,17,40 )
ORDER BY post.dateline DESC
LIMIT 1000;

MySQL-Fehler : Unknown column 'post.post_thanks_amount' in 'where clause'
Fehler-Nr. : 1054
Datum : Saturday, May 26th 2007 @ 04:13:40 PM
Skript : http://msvportal.de/forum/post_thank...ndthanks&u=101
Referrer :
IP-Adresse : 66.249.67.217
Benutzername : Unregistriert
Klassenname : vB_Database

[ElForro]

I'm having a little problem... In the first post, there's one "thanks" button... In the second, there are two, in the third, three and so on.... So, the last post in one page looks like this:



Each button appears to be for each previous posts [ post_thanks.php?do=post_thanks_add&p=1227165 | post_thanks.php?do=post_thanks_add&p=1227177 | etc ]

If I set "Only First Post" option to YES, the buttons apear just right, but ALL of them are linked to thanks the FIRST post, of course [ e.x: post_thanks.php?do=post_thanks_add&p=1227177 ]

What could be wrong?

--

Another question, would it be possible to "search" all the thanked posts of ONE particular thread?

Something like: "Search this thread -> Show all thanked posts"

[HHU]

Abe...

I have my first post set up with the vbulletin.org layout so it shows on every page of the thread.

If I wanted to have a count displaying in my postbit of:

"Thanks received in this thread:"

How would I go about doing that..

So that it would only display the thanks that was given to you in that thread for each individual thread you have.

So if Thread 1 had 5 Thanks in it, then in the postbit it would show "Thanks Recieved in this Thread: 5"

And if Thread 2 had 8 Thanks in it, then it would show "Thanks Recieved in this Thread: 8"

Thanks.

[Doglet]

Originally Posted by Doglet

3.6.7-PL1 - Post Thanks 6.2. I am getting the list of who gave thanks after every post, even though it is set to the first post only for those forums. Also, the Thaks button is visible on every post as well, not just the first. Any ideas?

It is also doubling and tripling up on all the information in the postbit?

OK, I fixed this problem by installing the extra patch that is supplied with Post Thanks 6.2 - I realise now this is because of a bug in vBulletin 3.6.7. So for those having the problem of multiple entry stuff, use the xml patch file also available here.