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

[deezelpope]

Originally Posted by radarhunter

I also cannot view the thank u button - did everything by the book

Quote:
Originally Posted by deezelpope
Did you upload it to all of your styles?


how are we supposed to do that ??

Into your FTP or whatever.

[radarhunter]

oh yes it was done i uploaded everything acc. to how you explained

but the same error prevails

[deezelpope]

<i>Well, you're using 3.6.2...this hack has been updated for 3.6.7. Probably why you're having problems.</i>

[radarhunter]

Nope i`m using the latest version of VB

[thenewuser]

Er, I installed this and now I have 10:

hanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0

or w/e in all my thread bits, I'll wait till a more stable version comes out, thanks though

/uninstall for now.

[mgurain]

Hi,,
I installed v6.2 it on vb3.6.7 with the fix but image is not showing ?!

[jacki]

hi ,

how can I show total thnak you number on main page

thread: xxxxxx, post: xxxxx, member : xxxxx thank you : xxxxx

[mgurain]

hi,
I was using v3.5 of the Thank you hack, and users have given many thanks,
now with the unsuccessful installation of 6.2 it gives 0 thanks for all,
does that mean I have lost all the thanks ?!
can I just reinstall 3.5 and get the old thanks ?

thanks in advance,,

[NolF]

Originally Posted by radarhunter

Nope i`m using the latest version of VB

It has been suggested (here) that reuploading all the files and reinstalling everything help

Originally Posted by mgurain

Hi,,
I installed v6.2 it on vb3.6.7 with the fix but image is not showing ?!

Have a look at this post

Originally Posted by thenewuser

Er, I installed this and now I have 10:

hanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0

or w/e in all my thread bits, I'll wait till a more stable version comes out, thanks though


/uninstall for now.

The problem is not with thank you mod, but with vBulletin it self, in order to fix it, fread this

Originally Posted by jacki

how can I show total thnak you number on main page

It would be helpfull to spicify in which page exactly (forumhome etc...) and exactly which thank you value (poster, thread thanks etc... you want to display. Even then I'm not sure that the variables are available outside the postbit templates

Originally Posted by mgurain

hi,
I was using v3.5 of the Thank you hack, and users have given many thanks,
now with the unsuccessful installation of 6.2 it gives 0 thanks for all,
does that mean I have lost all the thanks ?!
can I just reinstall 3.5 and get the old thanks ?

thanks in advance,,

I would suggest you to go to your database, (phpMyAdmin instructions)
enter into (prefix)user table scroll sideways till you see the the "examine" button
press it and now look for the column called post_thanks_thanked_posts and press it twice so it is in descending order. IF its empty I'm sorry, but I think they got cleaned up. Either that or 3.5 used a different name for this column so they are not using the same values. If you installed in any stage of the upgrade, all the thank you tables get cleared up, so it would be a restart from 0.

Something that could work is the counters added for the thank you hack in the admincp.

[kollam003]

Thanks Installed