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

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by tnedator

Hi, I have version 6.3 of postthanks installed and am running 3.6.8 (patch level 2). Today I started getting the following error on a couple threads.

This is at the top of the page in orange or red:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/functions_post_thanks.php on line 183

Then this is in a "vBulletin Message" box:

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/tnedator/public_html/forums/includes/class_core.php
Line: 3075

If you go to this thread http://www.broncosforums.com/forums/...ad.php?t=11734 and click on the second page, the error occurs.

I see that "for each" errors have been fixed in some of the 7.x releases. Should I just upgrade to 7.3? Is there any issues using 7.3 with 3.6.8?

Any help would be appreciated.

Are there any thank boxes that show thanks that dont have any thanks in them?

[oldengine]

How do I shrink the postbit font size in the post_thanks_postbit section for $vbphrase[post_thanks_user_says]

I'd like it to be much smaller than the post itself.

EDIT: I found part of the cure in post_thanks_postbit shrinking the list of user names in the tag.

<div class="smallfont">$post[post_thanks_bit]</div>

Now to get that to work on the line, "The Following 2 Users Say Thank You" - I don't know what the hell I'm doing, but I did it...

<td class="alt2" style="padding:0px"><div class="smallfont">
				<if condition="$post['post_thanks_amount'] == 1">
					<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[post_thanks_user_says]</phrase>
				<else />
					<phrase 1="$post[post_thanks_amount_formatted]" 2="$post[username]">$vbphrase[post_thanks_users_say]</phrase>
				</if></div>
			</td>

[Pirat3]

This is what I find:

post_thanks_thanked_post  	Standard Phrase  	Thanked Post  	
post_thanks_time_post 	Standard Phrase 	Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post 	
post_thanks_times_post 	Standard Phrase 	Thanked {1} Times in 1 Post 	
post_thanks_times_posts 	Standard Phrase 	Thanked {1} Times in {2} Posts

Which one do I edit? I want basically Thanked to turn into help and I dont want to show the # of posts thanked in.

[amlouline]

hello all , plz help , i have probleme with post hack thank you , message warning:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/functions_post_thanks.php on line 222

[atlambros83]

lol this hack would really be helpful on vb.org......then we'd only have to sort through half of the pages in a thread to view feedback and get help. great hack, i'll bookmark it and add it to my forums later.

[tnedator]

Originally Posted by Abe1

Are there any thank boxes that show thanks that dont have any thanks in them?

Yes. I hadn't noticed until you said to look, but one thanks box has no thanks, but says this: "The Following 4,294,967,295 Users Gave High Fives to BOSSHOGG30 For This Useful Post: "

[petacat]

Thanks for the updates.

We really needed the limits on giving thanks and being able to ban abusers of thanks.

[oldengine]

Originally Posted by petacat

Thanks for the updates. We really needed the limits on giving thanks and being able to ban abusers of thanks.

Double dittos! I had dropped off this hack for a while, but all my users missed it terribly. Now that I can keep certain individuals from thanking EVERY post on the board, it's great!

[Shannonx]

OK, I just installed this on my VB 3.6.8, did everything in the instructions and the thanks button is showing just fine as is everything else, but when the thanks button is pressed, nothing happens (appart from the button disappearing as it should) until you refresh the page and the button is back and the thanks count doesn't go up.

Any ideas what I am missing out? I made sure I have enabled it in admincp etc. just stuck to what it could be missing.

Many thanks. x

[Konstantinos]

are there any thank buttons based on the vb2 buttons ?