Post Thank You Hack 1.10

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Post Thank You Hack 1.10

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 granted liking by ALL the members of your forum.

The hack has been tested VERY well, including 5 weeks of beta testing, but I'm only human I can't guaranty there are no problems.

There is a similar hack called 'Automatic Thank You Hack'. That hack only lets you thank the first post of a thread and not just any post. The options in this hack doesn't compare to my hack. It's also unsupportive and was release for an older version of vBulletin.

Features:

• Comes with easy installer/updater/uninstaller file
• Places an easy to use button next to the edit button
• Separate looks for postbit and postbit_legacy
• Places all Thank Yous into one small box
• [NEW]Uses only ONE query every time you view a showthread page!
• Users can't thank twice
• Users can't 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 Thank Yous from a single post
• Turn on and off hack
• 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
• [NEW]Option to add to post count when someone clicks 'thanks'.
• [NEW]Option to give a user who receives thanks reputation points.
• Ban Usergroups
• Ban Users
• Update Counters in ACP (found in 'Import & Maintenance')
• Uses Phrases
• Guaranteed to be liked by ALL users on your forum!

Installation information on hack:

• Files edited: 3
• Templates edited: 4
• New Phrases: 44 (installer installs them)
• New Templates: 2 (installer installs them)
• Queries: 15 excluding phase and template queries (installer installs it)
• Files to upload: 4
• Time to install: between 5-10 minutes

Updates:

Version 1.0 (12/28/04):

• Release

Version 1.01 (1/10/05):

• [FIX]Templates stay when you upgrade your forum

Version 1.02 (2/22/05):

• [NEW]Installer Has Installer for After You Upgrade Your Forum
• [NEW]Search for a users thanked posts
• [NEW]Search for all thanked posts

Version 1.03 (2/23/05):

• [FIX]Turn hack on for only first posts of threads now works

Version 1.10 (5/9/05):

• [FIX]Compatibility for vBulletin 3.0.7
• [FIX]Reduced the amount of queries need to run this hack every time you view a showthread page to only ONE query. No more 1 to 2 queries per post that comes up.
• [FIX]I cached the templates used to save 1 query.
• [NEW]Option to add to post count when someone clicks 'thanks'.
• [NEW]Option to give a user who receives thanks reputation points.

Please post your comments or suggestions for this hack. I read ALL posts.

MAKE SURE YOU CLICK INSTALL!
You will get an email when a new version is released.

Pictures:

1. Showing the 'thanks' button
2. Showing post after 'thanks' (admin view)
3. Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
4. Stats in member?s profile
5. Hacks settings
6. Update counts view

I'll try to get some updated pictures up soon.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by kafi

Abe1,
pls would you be so kind to adopt feature nr.1 from 3.5 (user can delete their own thanks) to version for vB3 too.
I am not going to swich to 3.5 until stable version and all my hacks are adopted... which will take few more weeks (months).

I know I am asking too much, but I will really appreciate this.
Thank you.

no garrenty about it, but I'll try to do it

[vakvak]

Abe1 are you to present thaks mesages to counting or Stats ?

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by vakvak

Abe1 are you to present thaks mesages to counting or Stats ?

Can you please explain what you mean?

[vakvak]

example top 10 Thank you Stats

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by vakvak

example top 10 Thank you Stats

I should be comming out with something soon.

[kafi]

Originally Posted by Abe1

no garrenty about it, but I'll try to do it

Thank you!

Manual steps will be all I ask for .-) You don't need to play installer...

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by kafi

Thank you!

Manual steps will be all I ask for .-) You don't need to play installer...

It's just that I totaly re-wrote the permissions in the function_showthread.php file as well as some other things. I'll try to see what I can do.

[mayzan]

I'm a newbie, I know this is a stupid question:

================================================== ====
1) upload
--------------------------------------------------------------------
post_thanks.gif -> /images/buttons/
--------------------------------------------------------------------

2) Import the xml.
================================================== ====

How to import .xml? What should I do?

Thanks

[Marco van Herwaarden]

AdminCP->Plugin System

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by mayzan

I'm a newbie, I know this is a stupid question:

================================================== ====
1) upload
--------------------------------------------------------------------
post_thanks.gif -> /images/buttons/
--------------------------------------------------------------------

2) Import the xml.
================================================== ====


How to import .xml? What should I do?

Thanks

You should have posted this question in the vb3.5 version.

[kafi]

After having splited thread, line starting with this code

PHP Code:

foreach ($post_thanks_cash AS $thanks) 


is causing me problem and I was not able even open thread. It was showing also in the moment of spliting thread.

After I clicked splited thread i got this front error bulletin message:
Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/www/webpage.cmo/www/includes/functions_showthread.php
Line: 294

I have corrected it with original functions_showthread.php, but still having this warning:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/www/webpage.com/www/includes/functions_showthread.php on line 294

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by kafi

After having splited thread, line starting with this code

PHP Code:

foreach ($post_thanks_cash AS $thanks) 


is causing me problem and I was not able even open thread. It was showing also in the moment of spliting thread.

After I clicked splited thread i got this front error bulletin message:
Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/www/webpage.cmo/www/includes/functions_showthread.php
Line: 294

I have corrected it with original functions_showthread.php, but still having this warning:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/www/webpage.com/www/includes/functions_showthread.php on line 294

Go make sure you have the latest file update. It was fixed right after 1.10 was released. Download hack, upload the insaller. Go into it and click on 'file edits'. Copy the functions_showthread info to your file.

[kafi]

Abe1 you sure?

Just want to verify this, because reinstaling always cause me some troubles...

Your last updat is 10th of May.
I have installed this hack on 26th of Jun.

Is it possible that I do not have the latest version?
I have compared all files, but they look the same as I have used for install.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by kafi

Abe1 you sure?

Just want to verify this, because reinstaling always cause me some troubles...

Your last updat is 10th of May.
I have installed this hack on 26th of Jun.

Is it possible that I do not have the latest version?
I have compared all files, but they look the same as I have used for install.

If you installed this hack on Jun 26th, and download ed t then, then I dont know why you get this error.

[ncangler]

I installed the hack and it looks great. Only one problem I've seen. The "Thanks" button shows up on all members posts except mine. I'm the Admin on the site. Any reason it would not appear on my posts?