Show Thread Enhancements - [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack

Post Thank You Hack

STAFF EDIT:
Note - The mod author has been unreachable for some time, but the vbulletin.org community has stepped up to provide a number of individual fixes over the years. ForceHSS, Hippy, and Seven Skins have all combined many of these fixes into product files.

ALL CREDIT STILL GOES TO ABE1 And this is still 'his' mod. Please still mark the mod as installed if you use any version of it.

That said so you don't need to apply a dozen + small fixes yourself you should consider downloading one of the updated packages below:

Hippy has one in this post.

AND / OR

ForceHSS has one in this post.

AND/OR

Seven Skins has one in this post.


- Original File Specs: post_thanks_7_82.zip (26.4 KB, 24844 downloads) - Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).
- There are five total patched versions available, some with and without the search fix - I've replaced the main file with the patched versions... please be sure to download and install the correct version, the main mod post contains links to additional information and patched files!
- If Abe1 returns he can request these packages be removed.


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:

• Files edited: 0
• Templates edited: 0
• Files to upload: 8
• Time to install: 1 minute max

Updates:


Version 7.80 (12/30/09):

• Release of this hack for vBulletin version 4.0

Version 7.81 (01/02/10):

• Fixed some install and uninstall database errors.
• Made styling for postbit legacy a little better.
• Fixed the "separator" issue.
• Javascript file updated.

Version 7.82 (01/03/10):

• Fixed info alignment issues in the postbit for custom edited phrases.

NOTE: *** Offer for paid services removed ***

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by Dakoom

As you know, is it possible to add "post thanks" also in vbulletin blog or other scripts?

not that I heard of .. sorry

[JuPo]

Sorry to that stupid question....

¿the versión "7.82" of this mod, works in versión "3.8.5" of vbulletín?

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by JuPo

Sorry to that stupid question....

?the versi?n "7.82" of this mod, works in versi?n "3.8.5" of vbullet?n?

no it,s for version 4 only

here is the one for vb3 [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack

[Rofo]

Originally Posted by zeus_r6

Quoting myself here but this hack displays the thank you link on the far left rather than next to the edit button where it belongs...here is the fix which was found my the designer of the custom skin I'm running:


1) open template postbit
find
HTML Code:

{vb:raw template_hook.postbit_controls}

and move it under

<span class="postcontrols">

2) Do the same for postbit_legacy

A big thanks to Alexander from www.webandart.gr !

Originally Posted by Schoelle

See here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1300

Works perfect in 4.1.1

Originally Posted by rjmjr69

Attachment 126487

Heres a working XML for 4.1.1

Thanks for everyone helping, installed and working great on 4.1.1.

Quoting these posts, as they are needed information for 4.1.1. Thought I would get them together.

Live demo - www.gearheadconnection.com

[OldSchoolDSL]

This was a nice modification, but I have learned that it did slow down my community a little.

For me it worked flawlessly though in 4.1.2

But vBSEO does have their own "Likes" option.

Un-installed.

[Leo777]

Over the past years, many people have reported a problem when using this mod - after clicking Thanks the following error appears :

Could not find phrase 'post_thanks'.

It's been reported since 2006 (see here) and apparently still hasn't been fixed. Some people have even stopped using the mod due to this error, even though the error is only a message and doesn't affect functionality of the mod.

I think the main reason it hasn't been fixed is because the error is rarely seen - that's because the 'Redirecting' page is not seen by most people due to the use of AJAX. However, while testing this mod with various browsers and various settings, I have seen this error a few times. One way to see the error is to right-click the Thanks button and open it in a new tab, then it doesn't use AJAX so the error will appear temporarily before the page is reloaded. But I've also seen the error in other (rare) situations.

I couldn't find any solutions online so I tried to find a solution myself. First I tried to manually create the missing phrase, but I couldn't get it to work. Then I searched the post_thanks templates to manually fix it, but I couldn't find anywhere to fix it there, so then I searched the actual files included in the zip but I'm not an expert coder so I still couldn't figure out how to fix it.

Fortunately I then came up with a quick-fix solution and figured I should post it here in case anyone else wants to use it. It's very simple - you just use the Replacement Variable Manager to get rid of the message! So in your admin control panel just go to the Replacement Variable Manager, click 'Add New Replacement Variable' then in the top box enter the following :

could not find phrase 'post_thanks'.

And just leave the bottom box blank, then Save. No more error message

Hope this helps someone!

[robsta]

pls update this mod !

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by robsta

pls update this mod !

mode works ..
never version of vb than 4.1.0

just replace the code in the xml file
to this

<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="4.0.0 beta 4" maxversion="4.1.99" />

[zeus_r6]

Originally Posted by Hippy

mode works ..
never version of vb than 4.1.0
use this xml file

Image attached...

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by zeus_r6

Image attached...

Just edit the XML product file and change line 15 to read

PHP Code:

<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="4.0.0 beta 4" maxversion="4.1.99" />