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 teedizz

Abe1...is there anyway to make it to where if someone clicks the Thanks icon that it kinda counts as a post? Reason being I run a forum where alot of stuff is hidden with the [*hide][*/hide] codes & I want it to where if someone clicks the thanks icon it shows whats behind the hide code instead of having to reply & see whats behind the hide code itself. Is this possible & if so how can this be done. Thank you bro

i can easaly make the post count go up but that wont make it like he has a pos in the thread.

[eXtremeTim]

Hey just a note. Might want to rework the showthread part. It will add one query per post. Meaning if 100 posts are showed on the page this hack adds 100 queries.

[teedizz]

Originally Posted by Abe1

i can easaly make the post count go up but that wont make it like he has a pos in the thread.

Is there anyway to do it? I really dont care about the post count going up, Just a simple click of the Thank you button & then whutever is behind the [*hide][*/hide] code appears. Can this be done?

[eXtremeTim]

Also if you take the url for thanking in a post such as http://www.extremechatforums.com/for...t_thanks&p=415 and change the number you can thank yourself. I took it and changed it to http://www.extremechatforums.com/for...t_thanks&p=425 which was the postid for the announcement I just made and was able to thank myself without any problems. Might want to get that fixed as well. Users shouldn't be able to thank themselves. That would just lead to abuse of the system.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by teedizz

Is there anyway to do it? I really dont care about the post count going up, Just a simple click of the Thank you button & then whutever is behind the [*hide][*/hide] code appears. Can this be done?

I'm sure it can. But I have no idea what your code looks like and it would be a whole separate hack.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by eXtremeTim

Hey just a note. Might want to rework the showthread part. It will add one query per post. Meaning if 100 posts are showed on the page this hack adds 100 queries.

I have learned more about PHP since I wrote this hack. I may soon re-write parts of it.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by eXtremeTim

Also if you take the url for thanking in a post such as http://www.extremechatforums.com/for...t_thanks&p=415 and change the number you can thank yourself. I took it and changed it to http://www.extremechatforums.com/for...t_thanks&p=425 which was the postid for the announcement I just made and was able to thank myself without any problems. Might want to get that fixed as well. Users shouldn't be able to thank themselves. That would just lead to abuse of the system.

Thans for posting the out. I did put stops to a few of thouse tricks but when I realease again I should have all these little things fixed.

[eXtremeTim]

Sounds good. If you need any help hit me up.

[teedizz]

Originally Posted by Abe1

I'm sure it can. But I have no idea what your code looks like and it would be a whole separate hack.

Is there something that I can send you so you can look at it & tell me what I can do?

[Eternal2u]

A Way to cheat the system and thank yourself....this is my lil exploit for this mod..

Also i include a quick fix at the end of it..that is working on my forums...

Take the URL http://yourwebsite.com/post_thanks.p...post_thanks&p=

Then you add the post number. You can find this by waving your cursor over the link at the upper left hand corner of the post...the number like #129 for example..

Or just click on the #129 and in the big long line like this http://www.yourwebsite.com/forum/showpost.php?p=637918&postcount=129 the bold number is what you would take and put at the end of the url posted above..

so basicially if i wanted to thank myself i would do the following url on the website if it was installed..

http://yourwebsite.com/post_thanks.p...post_thanks&p=637918

Now the bold number is the number of my post and would allow me to thank myself..

So erm author..might wanna fix this in your next version..


And a quick fix for those of you having probs with your users cheating it..

/*

moved this here....

if ($bbuserinfo['userid'] == $userid) {
echo "++++ off retard";
exit;
}


*/