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

[dtommy79]

Originally Posted by Abe1

Then it should come up there. Where is it showing now?

It's only displayed in profile, not in posts. Here is a link to my forum:

My forum

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by dtommy79

It's only displayed in profile, not in posts. Here is a link to my forum:

My forum

Go read the template edit file in the zip file.

[mauro1947]

All my problems solved
A lot of thanks to @Abe1
Regards!

[welovehiphop]

great hack!

[vivamexico55]

Hello Abe,

Thanks for the hack, it's been probably the most useful in my community.

I'd like to know the proper method to upgrade from 5.3 to 6 of your hack.

I'm going to be using Vbulletin 3.6.8, and I would like to avoid any problems. Is it possible to preserve all thanks that users have received?

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by vivamexico55

Hello Abe,

Thanks for the hack, it's been probably the most useful in my community.

I'd like to know the proper method to upgrade from 5.3 to 6 of your hack.

I'm going to be using Vbulletin 3.6.8, and I would like to avoid any problems. Is it possible to preserve all thanks that users have received?

Sure. You dont need to uninstall. Just upload the XML product again. You will need to remove any post thanks tempale edits though.

[Zaubibaby]

Hi,

using 3.6.8 and the latest version of your hack, how do I remove the "Thanks: 0
Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post "-information in the User Profile?

Going through this thread here, I saw that in former versions, it was possible to alter a/some template(s), but now I'm unsure which template has to be changed (and how) to avoid this information being displayed.

Going through the templates belonging to the Hack (which are altogether 9, as far as I see in the AdminCP), I'd presume that something has to be changed in the post_thanks_member_info and maybe in the postbit_***?

Thanks in advance!

[Zaubibaby]

Another question, maybe in connection with the above. Hack adds a pull-down to AdminCP



where the settings may be done.
While "Settings" is working well,
both "Recounters" & "Special Actions" don't work, as the connected urls ...
http ://www.xxxx.de/board/admincp/post_thanks_admin.php?do=recounters
http ://www.xxxx.de/board/admincp/post_thanks_admin.php?do=special_actions

both produce a "site doesn't exist on your server"-fault.
What have I done wrong?

[victorvanv]

Suggestion for more busy forums :

Keep the thank you information box hidden by default (optional via settings I guess). Then write the thanks-amount at the bottom of a post with a collapse link beside it, so that you can view who thanked.

Ala this : http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.p...386#post510386

This gives the same information while keeping threads a bit cleaner.

Regards,

[CityGuard]

Originally Posted by Abe1

What file are you trying to install?

We've now upgraded to the 3.6.8 version and the compatibility error is resolved. Since we swtich versions I didn't check back to what file we'd tried before, but if this error wasn't occurring for other people presumably we'd tried installing the wrong version. With 3.6.8 now set up, the thank you function is working in our test environment.