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

[oldengine]

Originally Posted by Abe1

The timeout issues were resolved by this version. Which version are you uploading?

Thanks version 6.3
vBulletin 3.6.8 PL2

Is there a shell command line that can run the install/uninstall?

[sagor]

Thank you ..

please Take a look this :

http://www.uquni.com/vb/uploaded/1_01195624166.gif

what is problem ?

[tei727]

It's been requested at my forum that we add a Post Fail button to ride along side of the [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack while keeping the Thanks hack. Does this inspire anyone?

[rinkrat]

I just pruned a bunch of messages and everyone is pissed because it removed their thanks for those messages. Is there any way to have the thanks remain after a message is pruned?

[Antivirus]

Abe, nice work here . I'm looking to mod this so each post can only be thanked once. Is there already a conditional setup in your mod which checks for this or do I need to set one up? I imagine i would place this conditional within the function add_thanks() to exit if a post has already been thanked. Is there something placed within the $postinfo array already which I can use the conditional upon already or would I need to add that myself?

[chompychan]

I just have a question that I assume can only be answered here:

I had reputation disabled on my forum for a long time, with this hack active. I have just recently enabled reputation and I am wondering if it is at all possible to somehow convert currently "thanked" posts into reputation points?

My most thanked members are stuck with low reputation at this point you see.

Is this possible through any SQL queries or combination of recounters?

[jafari]

After update from 6.0 Gold to 6.3,
Box in bottom of post which show where thanks for this post not shown and also button of thanks !

Please help

[Antivirus]

Originally Posted by chompychan

I just have a question that I assume can only be answered here:

I had reputation disabled on my forum for a long time, with this hack active. I have just recently enabled reputation and I am wondering if it is at all possible to somehow convert currently "thanked" posts into reputation points?

My most thanked members are stuck with low reputation at this point you see.

Is this possible through any SQL queries or combination of recounters?

Have you tried "Rebuild User Reputation" in AdminCP->Maintenance->UpdateCounters ?

This might do the trick, however i think you're SOL as the function add_scores adds the rep during the process when any post is thanked... since those posts have already been thanked rebuild user rep won't take that into consideration.

You might have to run a manual query

[sandt38]

For some reason the thanks button does not show up in 3 of my skins, but it does on the other 3. I have completed all the template edits, and installed the images/buttons installs on all skins that use different image pathways. But on that note, not only is the button missing, but the alternate text is also not present.

Of worthy note, one of the skins it does not show up on is the vBulletin Blue Default.

[sandt38]

Uninstalled. The feature didn't work well with the hide hack (like 50% of the time it worked well) and it overwrites rep ability.

I wanted to allow users to be able to give nominal rep, even if they couldn't give their full rep because of post # limitations. But when my users tried to rep after thanking, they were told they couldn't rep the same post twice.

I will wait for the guys at vBCredits to get everything done, then use their hide hack.

Nice idea, really, but just not implemented in a manner that suits my needs.