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

[vivamexico55]

What's the proper process to upgrade from 5.3 to 6? I'd like to avoid the problems mentioned in this thread.

[Rickeo]

It works ok so far just on the posts it is howing this multiple times

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

Any idea how to fix this??

[powerful_rogue]

Originally Posted by Abe1

You have to revert the templates that have a $template_hook in it.

Hi,
Ive got exactly the same problem. How do I go about doing that?

[fariborz]

I restored my backup, but all off users thanks counter is 0 and now show me this error:
Warning: Illegal offset type in /includes/functions_post_thanks.php on line 110

What can i do now? my SQL Post Thanks Table is not problem, but on my forum is not show any counter and all off thanks is reset to 0!
Can you help me please?

[zorab]

Originally Posted by fariborz

I restored my backup, but all off users thanks counter is 0 and now show me this error:
Warning: Illegal offset type in /includes/functions_post_thanks.php on line 110

What can i do now? my SQL Post Thanks Table is not problem, but on my forum is not show any counter and all off thanks is reset to 0!
Can you help me please?

I have the same problem. I upgraded from version 5 to 6.2 after bringing my vbulletin forum up-to-date with version 3.6.7. Despite importing the post_thanks table from a backup of my database into the new database, all the 'thanks' statistics are being reported as zero! Is there a specific counter that needs to be reset to recreated the thanks statistics?

[fariborz]

Originally Posted by zorab

I have the same problem. I upgraded from version 5 to 6.2 after bringing my vbulletin forum up-to-date with version 3.6.7. Despite importing the post_thanks table from a backup of my database into the new database, all the 'thanks' statistics are being reported as zero! Is there a specific counter that needs to be reset to recreated the thanks statistics?

Dear Developer, Can you help to us for this problem? What can we do for resolve this problem?!
I disabled my post thanks plugin please fastest

[katie hunter]

Hi What should i do ? I can't log into my admin cp nor fix this error when i tried to install this hack, and i recived this error

This hack has too many bugs " a hack like that to cause a forum to crash " I think it should be Dropped

Many ppl experienced that fatal error and no one wrote warning on the first post of this hack, I think there should be warning on the first page so some ppl don't have to lose their sites and back up the forum that is if they luckly did it before installing that hack

Fatabase error in vBulletin 3.6.7:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT thanks.*, post.userid as postuserid, user.username
FROM thanks as thanks
LEFT JOIN post as post ON (post.postid = thanks.postid)
LEFT JOIN user as user ON (user.userid = thanks.userid)
ORDER BY thanks.dateline DESC;

MySQL Error : Table 'nihonoma_forumdb.thanks' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Date : Monday, July 23rd 2007 @ 10:11:06 PM
Script : http://forum.nihonomaru.com/index.php

[SuperTaz]

I installed it and everything works except it does not show the thanks button for all the forums, just a few of them. I have all the forum ID's filled in to allow it, but they do not show the thanks button. Is there a different code that I need for that?

[NaughtyStud]

This has probably already been discussed, but I really wasn't up for looking though 97 pages to see.I have the problem of having a half dozen buttons and like the poster above this...

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

When I select to just go with the first post, it doesn't show up at all.I followed the instructions and I am running on 3.6.7.Thanks

[CarlitoBrigante]

Hello,

This hack has indeed some bugs, which I noticed while developing an add-on for a client that has this hack installed on his boards.

Anyhow, the one you are experiencing can be simply fixed by installing the fix included in this thread.