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

[NolF]

Originally Posted by kwblue

I'm having some issues It's been a while since I installed the hack and I just noticed that when threads have more than 1 post, the image (thank you image) is duplicated along with the thanks information in the header.

Read this

Originally Posted by gregfindley

I have installed this hack following the instructions, and nothing has appeared at all? I'm running 3.6.7 so I installed the 6.0 gold followed by the 3.6.7 fix, but still nothing?

version 6.0 Gold is designed for 3.6.5 and under, even tho it works on the following version, it would mean you will have to do the template modifications indicated in the instructions. As a result you wouldn't be enjoying the joy of the 3.6.7 upgrade to its fullest .
Use version 6.2 for vBulletin 3.6.7 ^^ (make sure your templates have the hooks installed)

Originally Posted by sim20

The template is correct, the button image is in all relevant folders and i see this in user info:
[...]
But still no button!!

Have a look at this post and check that your hooks are installed as indicated there

Originally Posted by sunnycher and Fungsten

I don't have a post_thanks_postbit_info template.
I have it without the info on the end.

That template is only available on version 6.2. So I'm assuming you are using 6.0 Gold. On this version, you do the modification post_thanks_postbit_info does directly into your postbit(_legacy) template.
So go to your postbit(_legacy) template
and accordign to the isntractions

in postbit AND postbit_lagacy:

find:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
$vbphrase[posts]: $post[posts]
--------------------------------------------------------------------

AFTER place this:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
<!-- Start Post Thank You Hack -->
<if condition="$post[userid]">
<br />
$vbphrase[post_thanks_thanks]: $post[post_thanks_user_amount]
<br />
<if condition="$post[post_thanks_thanked_times_on] == 1">
$vbphrase[post_thanks_time_post]
<else />
<if condition="$post[post_thanks_thanked_posts_on] == 1">
<phrase 1="$post[post_thanks_thanked_times]">$vbphrase[post_thanks_times_post]</phrase>
<else />
<phrase 1="$post[post_thanks_thanked_times]" 2="$post[post_thanks_thanked_posts]">$vbphrase[post_thanks_times_posts]</phrase>
</if>
</if>
</if>
<!-- End Post Thank You Hack -->
--------------------------------------------------------------------

You can put your conditional above the <!-- Start Post Thank You Hack --> comment, and the </if> after the End comment ^^

Originally Posted by sunnycher

How to I remove the thanks stats in the members block/info?

Undo do the template changes in memberinfo template contained within the <!-- Start Post Thank You Hack --> and <!-- End Post Thank You Hack --> comments, including the comments them selves. Either that or just add a conditional as specified previously ^^

[westpac]

wow it worked thanks thas hella dope i luv yall

[Spinball]

Has anyone experienced the latest version of this hack slowing down their forums?
I upgraded vB from 3.6.4 to 3.6.7 and installed the new Thank you hack right away (with extra plugin bug fix).
I then went away for 3 days and returned to lots of complaints of a slow forum. First thing I did was disable all the plugin hacks. I think it's the Thank You hack which is crippling our forum. I have disabled it for now. Is it likely to be having a big effect on the server?

[adam2484]

does anybody know why my total thanks is not rising when the thanks button is pressed?

i basically get this
Thanks: 0
Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post

to see it this is my page, http://forums.medicineapplications.c...hread.php?t=17

many thanks in advance!

EDIT: ok the above is me stupid! is there any way of taking of the 'thanks' bit. so only the number of times someone has been thanked is displayed

[sim20]

Have a look at this post and check that your hooks are installed as indicated there

Fixed, i had the horizontal postbit enabled, changed to vertical and its there, can i use the hack in horizontal mode?

[sunnycher]

Ok I may of asked my question wrong, I'm sure I did

How do I get rid of the stats in the members block in their posts. Is that post-bits?
The other got rid of it in their profile, which is fine.
I just want to get rid of Thank You stats on each member all together.
TIA!!

[gregfindley]

Originally Posted by NolF

Read this
version 6.0 Gold is designed for 3.6.5 and under, even tho it works on the following version, it would mean you will have to do the template modifications indicated in the instructions. As a result you wouldn't be enjoying the joy of the 3.6.7 upgrade to its fullest .
Use version 6.2 for vBulletin 3.6.7 ^^ (make sure your templates have the hooks installed)

Thanks NolF got it sorted now (need the mod here so I can thank you properly!!)

Do you have any idea how to remove the "Thanks: 0" from the postbit legacy. As my postbit is quite busy already I want to lose the stat to show how many times a user has thanked other users, but keep the stat to say how many times that user has been thanked by others.

Hope that makes sense!
Thanks, Greg

[NolF]

Originally Posted by Spinball

I then went away for 3 days and returned to lots of complaints of a slow forum. First thing I did was disable all the plugin hacks. I think it's the Thank You hack which is crippling our forum. I have disabled it for now. Is it likely to be having a big effect on the server?

I haven't. I don't think it is likely to cause any slowness in the server, maybe one of the plugins in combination with other hacks might have some problem, but for me is working fine

Originally Posted by adam2484

is there any way of taking of the 'thanks' bit. so only the number of times someone has been thanked is displayed

Originally Posted by gregfindley

Do you have any idea how to remove the "Thanks: 0" from the postbit legacy.

On template post_thanks_postbit_info find
<div>$vbphrase[post_thanks_thanks]: $post[post_thanks_user_amount_formatted]</div>
either delete it or wrap it in a conditional, I normally put one so only admins can see it (is good to monitor abuse etc ^^)
<if conditional="$bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 6"> or <if conditional="$bbuserinfo[userid] == XX">
First one for usergroupid, the second one if you only want your-self to be able to see it.
Read This tutorial about conditionals, very useful.

Originally Posted by sim20

Fixed, i had the horizontal postbit enabled, changed to vertical and its there, can i use the hack in horizontal mode?

Put the template hooks in the horizontal mode template (if horizontal is like vbulletin.org tempalte is called "postbit" otherwise (like phpbb forums generally) is "postbit_legacy" Put the hooks where they belong and it should work on the other method too ^^

Originally Posted by sunnycher

I just want to get rid of Thank You stats on each member all together.

Just follow the instructions on my previous post Consists of two parts, first one for the posts and second one for profile.

[vitrag24]

i have vb 3.6.4 aND version of this hack 5.3
can i update this addon?is it compatible with vb 3.6.4 also?

and how to update now?

[Quantnet]

Originally Posted by NolF

On template post_thanks_postbit_info find
<div>$vbphrase[post_thanks_thanks]: $post[post_thanks_user_amount_formatted]</div>
either delete it or wrap it in a conditional, I normally put one so only admins can see it (is good to monitor abuse etc ^^)
<if conditional="$bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 6"> or <if conditional="$bbuserinfo[userid] == XX">
First one for usergroupid, the second one if you only want your-self to be able to see it.
Read This tutorial about conditionals, very useful.

Which conditions would you use so that it only display Thanks and Thanked when it > 1.
I used to be able to do this with the if condition in earlier version but I don't know how to do it now.
Something like < if $vbphrase[post_thanks_thanks] >=1 or something