New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like v3 (vB4) [AJAX]

What it is: Advanced Thanks/Like mod is designed to cut down on spam and increase useful content in your forum by using a peer encouragement system - users thank/like each others posts, which can give them access to attachements, post content etc, as well as encourage the thanked person to post more great content.

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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php

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* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

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Importer from Abe's Thanks mod (vB3 / vB4) and vBSEO "Likes" now available in Lite version!


Major Features: Lite

Require a Button Click: Allows you to hide the content of a post, or hie an attachment, until the person clicks a button on the post.

Statistics: Shows the top 5 people for; Giving / Receiving button clicks.

Collapsable postbit stats: Shows how many button clicks a person has given, received etc in the postbit. Admins can determine what statistics can show in the postbit to control sizes etc. The postbit is also collapsable.

Admin Permissions: Control things such as who can click buttons, require button clicks, what shows in postbit, what options can run concurrently, per forum permisions etc.

Reputation: Add / Remove Reputation for each of your button clicks.

Notifications: Receive alerts when a member clicked on one of the buttons for one of your posts.

Import Thanks: Import script to import "thanks" from Abe's [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack on vBulletin.org. It will work with both vB3 and vB4 versions of this mod.

Import Likes: Import script to import "likes" from vBSEO.


Major Features: Pro

Infinite Buttons: Ability to create new buttons to press! No longer do you need to be limited by Thanks / Like / Dislike.

Auto Collapse Posts: Collapses a post so it doesnt show up by using a formulae for button clicks of your choosing.

User Postbit Config: Lets users decide what postbit stats they want to see.

Additional permissions: Un-click a button. Control how many stats show on the statistics page, set permissions per subforum.

Integrated Controls: You can now integrate the button clicking controls into the post footer, like many of you requested.

Buttons in First Post Only: This allows you to only make the first post thankable. If you forum is based around news, releases or anything similar this will allow your users to easily see the quality of the thread in question.

Button Click Anonymity: This feature will be extremely helpful to forums who like the idea of a "dislike" button, but don't like the drama it brings. Now you can set certain buttons to be anonymous - no one will see who clicked.

Post Colour Thresholds: Ever wanted an easy way for members to tell if a post is helpful or trash? Colour thresholds let you change the colour of posts depending on how many clicks of a button they receive. Members can now see at a glance whether or not a post is helpful, interesting or pointless.



Complete Feature List
Lite

• Front-End
  • Click buttons for posts (permissions and settings permitting)
  • Require button clicks to see content (whole post is hidden)
  • Require button clicks to see attachments
  • Top 5 Given / Received statistics for each button
  • Collapsible postbit statistics
  • (vB4) Forum Sidebar block for button feeds
  • Hottest Threads / Posts page showing most clicked posts and threads
  • Each button can be set as "Default" for Attachments and Content. When posting via Quick Reply, the default button(s) will be set as Required
  • The "thanks bar" in posts displays the number of users who has clicked each button, also for non-forum integration areas
• AdminCP
  • Control display order of buttons
  • Set permissions per usergroup to be able to click and require clicks of buttons
  • Per-category toggle of what buttons are enabled
  • Search interface to find clicks for a specific post
  • Maintenance options; Clean up clicks that are attached to deleted posts, Recalculate the Given / Received statistics, Rebuild Reputation
  • Manual postbit stats relocation
  • Hide APTL info from guests
  • Globally disable notifications for new clicks
  • Disable APTL integration with non-forum areas via vBulletin Options
  • Disable "Total click count" on the "thanks bar"
  • Notifications can be disabled on a per-button basis
  • Disable button text
• Integration
  • Social Groups
  • User Notes
  • Visitor Messaging
  • (vB4) [DBTech] DragonByte Gallery: Images
  • (vB4) [DBTech] DragonByte Reviews: Reviews
• (vB4) Forum Block
  • Tabbed interface to choose between "Recent" and "Top" button clicks
  • Ability to select from any of the available buttons and display the 5 recent clicks from that button
  • "Top" tab on the forum block, lists top clicks for the selected button
  • Control the timespan in which the "Top" period is calculated for
  • Deny usergroup access

Pro

• Front-End
  • "Entry List" page; a browseable list of all button clicks
  • Users can hide postbit items via the UserCP
  • Users can turn off notifications via the UserCP
  • Hottest Threads / Posts has a date range filter
• AdminCP
  • Create unlimited buttons to click
  • Ability to create Post Colour Thresholds to highlight posts in different colours
  • (vB4) Choose what portions of the postbit should be coloured via the post colour thresholds.
  • Minimum posts required to click a button
  • Per-usergroup setting to become immune to clicks of a button
  • Per-usergroup setting whether who clicked a button is displayed
  • Per-usergroup setting to allow disabling clicks of a specific button for a post
  • Per-usergroup setting to allow removing a click of a button
  • Limit button clicks per day
  • Per-forum ability to set each button to only display in the first post
  • Per-forum toggle of what buttons are enabled
  • Set more / less than 5 for the Given / Received statistics
  • Ability to auto-collapse posts using provided formula or input for your own using your custom buttons
  • Move the "Post Like / Thanks" cloud above / below posts, above / below signatures
  • Ability to delete entries found in the Search interface
  • Email notifications (can be disabled globally) on a per-button basis
  • Disable notifications on a per-button basis
  • Set a flood limit (in seconds) that serves as a delay between button clicks
  • Individual users now be excluded from using the mod
  • Turn off individual buttons' integration with non-forum areas
  • Turn off "Given" and "Received stats on a per-button basis
• Integration
  • Blog Entries
  • Blog Comments

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[TyrbaneSilverha]

I was really interested in using this mod, but I don't feel comfortable having a directory with PHP files in it that is CHMODed to 777. This smells of a security hole as anyone can modify those PHP files to display sensitive information. Is there a specific reason for vbactivity_type to be wide open?

[DragonByte Tech]

Yeah, the fact that when you add a new button, it needs to write a new file to that directory to be compatible with vBActivity


Fillip

[Shemillian]

Thank you for all of your efforts. This seems like a great product.

Originally Posted by TyrbaneSilverha

I was really interested in using this mod, but I don't feel comfortable having a directory with PHP files in it that is CHMODed to 777. This smells of a security hole as anyone can modify those PHP files to display sensitive information. Is there a specific reason for vbactivity_type to be wide open?

I am also concerned about security. My site was recently exploited through the Post Thank You plugin by Abe1. A shell script was inserted into the ajax_complete.php.

I'm honestly not fluent enough to ask the right questions here, but have you had any experience with this product being similarly exploited? I'd really love to have a Thanks option again (members of my forum are begging for it) but not if it's going to leave me vulnerable to attack.

Thank you!

[DragonByte Tech]

There have been no reports of this mod being the source of any exploits.

Keep in mind that a directory being 777 doesn't mean anyone can inject scripts into it from any server - the attacker needs some form of access to your server via other means (either an Admin account with Can Admin Plugins) or another account on the server.

That still doesn't mean anyone else on a shared server can hack your site - there's still open_basedir restrictions which any shared host worth their salt would have enabled.

Fillip

[aryshi]

Dear Fillip is there a possibility to add option to hide posts that have specific number of dislikes?

[DragonByte Tech]

That's a Pro only feature: "Ability to auto-collapse posts using provided formula or input for your own using your custom buttons"


Fillip

[Kirk Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by Sidewindr

Originally Posted by Sidewindr View Post

The problem where ALL search result postbits were being replaced by "-= Hiden Content =-" comes from the edit to the file /vb/legacy/post.php. I removed this edit and search results for posts were being displayed properly.. There probably needs to be some kind of conditional statement in the code..

BUMP! This is a bug I believe ..

This is still happening, or at least it was on my own site until I removed the edit to /vb/legacy/post.php as stated by Sidewindr.

Is this going to be fixed?

[DJ-Dez]

Were do I edit?
{vb:raw stat}

Need to edit the code whatever is being pulled through this variable.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by DJ-Dez

Were do I edit?
{vb:raw stat}

Need to edit the code whatever is being pulled through this variable.

That variable is defined in /dbtech/thanks/hooks/postbit_display_complete.php


Fillip

[zero477]

Hello Dragon Byte,

I installed your plugin ... It looks good but I do not know how to thank or like someone ... how can I do this??

Greetings:

http://www.hyperlinkbuilding.org/thr...-Compte-Newbie

Currently your website is down: https://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/

How long will it itake to bring it back to life??