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

[tobias_t]

Apologies if this has been asked and answered before, but - how can I deactivate thanks given and received being displayed in the user profile bar? I am eager to enable this hack in our forums.

Thanks, Tobias

[cash7c3]

Originally Posted by Ramsesx

"You have to update your templates so they included the latest $template_hook variables."

Thanks for this hack, but I have one stupid question,

I don't get it what this means exactly, thanks.

Yes, please, if anyone could give a little more info other than "they added some stuff, you have to update some stuff and then it will work", that'd be great.

I have this hack working fine on my site modmymoto.com, and working slightly on my site modmyiphone.com. After two or three days of working on it off and on at modmyiphone.com, I STILL can't get it functioning completely (doesn't show the box under each post with who has thanked).

I know what I'm doing, if I could PLEASE get a little more detailed info on the fix, that'd be great. Thanks.

[NolF]

Lets see 6.2 requires your templates to be up to date meaning 3.6.6 (3.6.7 didn't have any changes) This update adds template hooks on the postbit and postbit_legacy templates.

When abe1 updated his hack, he removed the template changes and used the hooks instead making the installation as simple as possible. IF you don't have this template hooks, then this modification won't be able to show the button or how many groans are there.

Originally Posted by Ramsesx

"You have to update your templates so they included the latest $template_hook variables."

means to have the postbit and postbit_legacy up to date.
The quickest way to achieve this is reverting the template, but if you have it modify use the vBulletin tools to compare the changes and update your templates.

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Once done this, vBulletin 3.6.7 (not sure if 3.6.6 too) has a small bug which causes to to show more than one botton etc... as shown on the image.

To fix it, download product template hook vb367 fix.zip. You can find it on the first post Once installed, it will be fixed

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Originally Posted by tobias_t

Apologies if this has been asked and answered before, but - how can I deactivate thanks given and received being displayed in the user profile bar? I am eager to enable this hack in our forums.

Thanks, Tobias

If you don't want to show "Thanks: x" "Thanked 1 time in 1 post"
Go to the template called "post_thanks_postbit_info" and either delete all its contents or (I would do this second one) put a conditional at the beginning for example
(So only users with this usergroups can see it)
<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 5,6,7)">
or so only peeople with those userids can see it
<if condition="in_array($bbuserinfo[userid], array(1,8,200))">

Don't forget to put the </if>

I'm sure there are other ways, but these are the ones I know

[FleXy]

auto template editor DIN'T work for me. it was edit all styles, but my SUB-style not.
I think that is because template already edeted with VBPlaza.

where can I find instruction how to edit it manualy... or what can I do ?

thank you

[Ramsesx]

Thanks for your kind help NolF, it was as you said, after upgrading the templates it is fine now. I even found out how to get this running on GARS

[soulweaver]

how do you hide what their thanking you for until they press thanks.

[Monyet]

I love this mod, this is cool. and "THANX!"

[Monyet]

hey, there's this error:

Fatal error: Could not open /homepages/46/d207133605/htdocs/includes/xml/bitfield_vbulletin.xml in /includes/class_bitfield_builder.php on line 126

how to fix that?

[cash7c3]

@NoIF-thanks you, that was exactly what I needed.

[FleXy]

what can i do? on one of my style (and sub-style) THANKS button and other template modefications did not show :-(
in to the other styles all correct.