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

[Aylwin]

I just upgraded to 7.4 from 5.x.x. A few minor corrections I think should made:

In template post_thanks_member_info, this:

	<legend>$vbphrase[post_thanks_thanks]</legend>

should be:

	<legend>$vbphrase[post_thanks_total_thanks]</legend>

In template post_thanks_postbit_info, this:

	<div>$vbphrase[post_thanks_thanks]: $post[post_thanks_user_amount_formatted] times</div>

should be:

	<div>$vbphrase[post_thanks_total_thanks]: $post[post_thanks_user_amount_formatted] times</div>

Thanks again for this great plugin.

[zeus_r6]

Mine isn't displaying correctly...any insight on this?

[ArnyVee]

Originally Posted by zeus_r6

Mine isn't displaying correctly...any insight on this?

Same exact thing going on with me. Zero times thanked even though I just clicked the thumb deal.

It seemed to install correctly, so I'm not sure if I missed a step. Help!

Edited: Somehow it fixed itself.

[Aylwin]

Originally Posted by ArnyVee

Edited: Somehow it fixed itself.

Probably just needed a page refresh.

[Spooony]

Not sure if it's been mentioned before, but I think a great addition (one that I would love) is to have an option for "Thanked {1} Times in {2} Posts" to be expressed as a percentage. It would make the thanks mean more where the quality of posts are important. Any chance of this? =D

[Armee25]

For some reason the Thanks button is not showing up... even though it's uploaded. And the mod intalled perfectly. I see "thanked x times in x posts" under the persons username in posts... but the thanks button just isn't showing up. Any ideas?

Thank you

I am on VB 3.6.8 patch 2. I have not changed the default template (i don't have a different forum design than the one that came with VB originally).

[Wardragon]

Okay, after reading the last hundred posts I'm still stuck. It seems only two other people have had the same problem:

Warning: Unknown(/includes/functions_post_thanks.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /includes/class_postbit.php(268) : eval()'d code on line 7

Fatal error: (null)() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/xxxernxx/public_html/vforum/includes/functions_post_thanks.php' (include_path='.:/usr/php4/lib/php:/usr/local/php4/lib/php') in /home/xxxernxx/public_html/vforum/includes/class_postbit.php(268) : eval()'d code on line 7

The suggestions given were that the files were either uploaded incorrectly or not uploaded at all. Well, I've uploaded the files from the zip, triple checked to make sure they were all there and in the correct order and imported the product-post_thanks.xml file via the product manager with no problem, and I still get this error when trying to open a thread.

I uploaded the "upload via ftp" folder into my forum root directory, is this incorrect?

I'm new at this and have no clue. Am I supposed to re-name the upload via ftp folder? It appears it can't find the files, but they are all there. Thanks for any suggestions.

Also- I'm using a custom template. The instructions included with the thankyou hack included some template modifications that already existed in all of the templates, so I didn't change anything.

[asasi]

Hi
When I was needed post thank you that integrated with HIDE hack this hack does not support that. So I ordered VS-Hide hack resurection (Expanded) .
after that our domain has filtered in our country and we registered some new domains and used "Parked Domains" but vs-hide hack not worked on new domains and we tried to ask supporters to make a key file to use with some other domains (But on one site).
They supporters did not answer me from months ago !!!!
Now I saw new version of your hack support all of our need but the problem is calculated reputations and count on thanks !
I mean if I install your hack can I import all thanks count and reputation level that calculated with thanks and other informations from vs-hide hack?

thanks alot

[DraculaVN]

Originally Posted by DraculaVN

Hi,

I wanna use this hack. But i'm curently using the old Mod "Post Thank You Hack" without AJAX. If I uninstall the old one, and install this one, shall it keep my users' "thanked" post count?

Anyone help me to answer this please.


Thanks!

[Quina]

I've got this problem

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /includes/functions.php(1259) : eval()'d code on line 5

look the attachment below for more detail.
Please help me to fix it.

Thank you