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Post Thank You Hack 1.10 · **Released**: 12-27-2004

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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:

Showing the 'thanks' button
Showing post after 'thanks' (admin view)
Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
Stats in member?s profile
Hacks settings
Update counts view

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

Abe1 · #**167** 05-09-2005, 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by -=Sniper=-

I get this

PHP Code:


			
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/functions_showthread.php on line 209

What happend if you find:

PHP Code:


			
foreach ($post_thanks_cash AS $thanks)

and replace with

PHP Code:


			
@foreach ($post_thanks_cash AS $thanks)

Abe1 · #**168** 05-09-2005, 03:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Abe1

What happend if you find:

PHP Code:


			
foreach ($post_thanks_cash AS $thanks)

and replace with

PHP Code:


			
@foreach ($post_thanks_cash AS $thanks)

forget trying this. I'm going to give you some thing else to do.

-=Sniper=- · #**169** 05-09-2005, 03:06 PM

I get this

PHP Code:


			
parse error, unexpected T_FOREACH in /includes/functions_showthread.php on line 209

Abe1 · #**170** 05-09-2005, 03:08 PM

Find:

PHP Code:


			
    foreach ($post_thanks_cash AS $thanks)

    {

        if ($thanks[userid] == $bbuserinfo[userid] AND $thanks[postid] == $post[postid])

        {

            $post_thanks_already ++;

        }

    }

and replace with this:

PHP Code:


			
    if ($post_thanks_cash)

    {

        foreach ($post_thanks_cash AS $thanks)

        {

            if ($thanks[userid] == $bbuserinfo[userid] AND $thanks[postid] == $post[postid])

            {

                $post_thanks_already ++;

            }

        }

    }

Let me know if you get the error in a later place and if you only get the error on pages that dont have any thanks.

-=Sniper=- · #**171** 05-09-2005, 03:16 PM

ok its working

thanks

also during the upgrade process all my settings were reset

had to redo them, could you avoide the problem in the future updates?

demo: http://www.hardwareforums.com/showthread.php?t=5319

thanks for the excellent hack.

Abe1 · #**172** 05-09-2005, 03:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by -=Sniper=-

ok its working

thanks

also during the upgrade process all my settings were reset

had to redo them, could you avoide the problem in the future updates?

demo: http://www.hardwareforums.com/showthread.php?t=5319

thanks for the excellent hack.

You only needed that correction for one spot? I'm not going to implement it unless I see others have the problem also. I don't know why you got the error.

I gave a warning when you first clicked 'upgrade' that the settigns are being reset and that you should remeber what they are. In the future, I 'hope' I wont have to reset them again.

I'm glad you like it

-=Sniper=- · #**173** 05-09-2005, 03:30 PM

yeh only one spot, as metioned above, one strange thing happening now is the template condition for when only one user has said "thanks" is not working.

on mine I have it it like this

PHP Code:


			
<if condition="$nb == 1"><phrase 1="User" 2="$post[username]">$vbphrase[post_thanks_users_say]</phrase>

<else /><phrase 1="$post[post_thanks_amount] Users" 2="$post[username]">$vbphrase[post_thanks_users_say]</phrase></if>

even with one thanks it says "1 users"

btw: did the upgrade have any effect on the templates? changes?

Abe1 · #**174** 05-09-2005, 03:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by -=Sniper=-

yeh only one spot, as metioned above, one strange thing happening now is the template condition for when only one user has said "thanks" is not working.

on mine I have it it like this

PHP Code:


			
<if condition="$nb == 1"><phrase 1="User" 2="$post[username]">$vbphrase[post_thanks_users_say]</phrase>

<else /><phrase 1="$post[post_thanks_amount] Users" 2="$post[username]">$vbphrase[post_thanks_users_say]</phrase></if>

even with one thanks it says "1 users"

btw: did the upgrade have any effect on the templates? changes?

in includes/functions_showthread.php
find all the times

PHP Code:


			
$number_rows

and replace with

PHP Code:

$nb

I'll update the zip download in a min. Also, anyone else who installed v1.10 alreadyshould do this.

Abe1 · #**175** 05-09-2005, 03:49 PM

Zip updated. Anyone who downloaded and installed already, just follow the instructions in the previus post.

Watson · #**176** 05-09-2005, 04:01 PM

Thanks for this, will give it a shot when I got my forums back online, doing some maint, and upgrading

konstance · #**177** 05-09-2005, 04:06 PM

When I updated the functions_showthread.php, and then went to showthread.php page, I get the following error:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/functions_showthread.php on line 209

Please advise what to do about that.

thanks!

snake-boy · #**178** 05-09-2005, 04:24 PM

Tried to upgrade as instructed, and when posting a message I get "error in functions_showthread.php"

Now clicking on any post gives me:

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.7:

Invalid SQL: SELECT * FROM award AS award ORDER BY awardid ASC
mysql error: Unknown column 'awardid' in 'order clause'

mysql error number: 1054

Got no errors during the install process, made the file changes with no probems as directed by the installer.

Help?

-snake

Abe1 · #**179** 05-09-2005, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by konstance

When I updated the functions_showthread.php, and then went to showthread.php page, I get the following error:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/functions_showthread.php on line 209

Please advise what to do about that.

thanks!

Find:

PHP Code:


			
    foreach ($post_thanks_cash AS $thanks)

    {

        if ($thanks[userid] == $bbuserinfo[userid] AND $thanks[postid] == $post[postid])

        {

            $post_thanks_already ++;

        }

    }

and replace with this:

PHP Code:


			
    if ($post_thanks_cash)

    {

        foreach ($post_thanks_cash AS $thanks)

        {

            if ($thanks[userid] == $bbuserinfo[userid] AND $thanks[postid] == $post[postid])

            {

                $post_thanks_already ++;

            }

        }

    }

Abe1 · #**180** 05-09-2005, 04:35 PM

I just updated the zip again with this last fix. Everything should work fine now (I hope).

konstance · #**181** 05-09-2005, 04:38 PM

Thanks Abe1, it works fine now.

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