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

[benFF]

Thanks for this great hack.

Just one request and that would be to allow the single removing of thanks by an admin OR moderator (if they have power in that forum) - I want to police this from being abused, but at the moment I only have the option of removing all the thanks from a post - and my mod team can't do anything!

[benFF]

If you mean like this: http://www.fiatforum.com/barchetta/1...ml#post1276442

Then all you need to do is overwrite the "post_thanks_postbit_legacy" template with the "post_thanks_postbit" one

[class101]

Originally Posted by tiekie

This is a great hack

I have this hack installed together with the 'link hiding hack' and it's working 100% but there is just one small add-on function i want this hack to do.

I want it to bump the thread when someone press thank you

How would i be able to do so ?

Too much code to add this urself I think + It will be very bad options leading to massives abuse or kiddies bumping old threads, not a good option at all for me

[khaales]

hello
tanks for your hack
but i have a problem.
i was installed this hack on my VB, but not last version of it. today I see my version of hacks and i see my version of this hack is old, then i install this last version in my VB 3.6.8
now i have post tancks menu in adminCP and i have the tank button but under the posts it shows only for example 5 people thanks for this good post and do not show the 5 user names,
the user names box is empty but near of it shows the number of thankers!
another prob is when i hit on Remove all the page refreshed but nothing happened!

please help me as soon as you can.
tanx

[Head Roller]

Hi! THanks for the hack. I have installed it and I have run into a small issue. My "thanked status" for the members is not in the right place. It is above the user info. (see attached)

I have a custom skin and a CMS on my board, so when I attempted to edit the postbit and postbit_legacy I did not have the "find:" phrase in the instructions, and I just placed the

$template_hook[postbit_userinfo_right_after_posts]

after the post count. Obviously that is incorrect. Is there another "landmark" that would help me get this thing in the right spot??

Thanks for your help.

[gwerzal]

Is there a way of hiding the thank you's so there not on show all the time.

So you would have to click to see who thanked.

[tei727]

I love this add-on and it works on all my styles except Detour. Any clues why not? I definately uploaded it to all the button files and even saw the theme on the page while the xml was loading.

[powerful_rogue]

Originally Posted by gwerzal

Is there a way of hiding the thank you's so there not on show all the time.

So you would have to click to see who thanked.

That would be very useful! Somthing like:

XX Users said thank you to gwerzal for this post. View users HERE

[hitmann]

I second tei727. This would be very handy.

Also, would it be possible BUMP a thread when a user clicks THANKS?

[tei727]

Originally Posted by hitmann

I second tei727. This would be very handy.

Also, would it be possible BUMP a thread when a user clicks THANKS?

not working in detour for you either?