Miscellaneous Hacks - [AJAX] Thumbs Up?

Thumbs up/down system for all content of vBulletin!

This mod gives a simple thumbs system for:

• Forum posts
• Pictures
• Picture comments
• Profile visitor messages
• Social group messages
• vBCMS articles
• vBCMS article comments
• vBBlog entries
• vBBlog comments

Features

• Thumbs up/down rating system
• Ability to turn off "thumbs down" votes
• Uses AJAX technology (= no page refresh when voting)
• Ability to turn off system on each section
• Show who vote feature (with ability to turn it off for up or/and down thumbs)
• Postbit statistics
• Top X rated contents in latest 7 days
• Notification system for new thumbs (with ability to turn it off via usercp)
• Only first post feature
• Ban user/usergroup feature
• Turn off system on individual forums
• Importers from Post Thanks/Groans/vBSEO Likes, included!
• Thumbs Up? Center:

• - latest thumbs on "my" content
• - latest thumbs "I sent"
• - top rated contents
• - statistics

Credits to my friend Lea Verou for designing the appearance of this hack!

Language packs
German

How to install?
Read the documents inside the *zip file.

How to upgrade?
1. Upload and replace the new files.
2. Import XML product with "Allow overwrite" to YES.

Changelog:
v1.0 - first release
v1.5.2 - 1 bug fixed (only first post function issue), 2 phrase edits
v1.8.0
- new feature: support for vBCMS articles & comments
- whos online locations added
- new feature: top rated (in latest 7 days) contents page
- new feature: postbit statistics
- change: only one button when "thumbs down" are disabled
- new feature: ability to change the color of the thumbs box and the color of amount font via admincp
v1.9.0
- new feature: support for vBBlog entries & comments
- small fix to box template (thanks to Valter)
update 22/12/2012
- bug fixed: guests could not show the thumbs number (shows a zero for all posts)
- to install this fix just upload and replace the updated file includes/functions_sc_thumbs.php. It is not necessary to re-upload all files or upgrade the product xml


If you like this hack, nominate it for MOTM!

-Scandal

[datoneer]

Excellent mod it works with 4.2.0. Installed and nominated!

[karabaja3]

Great mod. Would like this for 3.8.x

[daviet]

Mod looks great, I would also love to see the feature of hiding posts with a certain negative count mentioned previously in the thread.

Originally Posted by tr1cky

Can you add an option to hide posts when they have a negative count of X and then users can they decide to expand the post or not.

Originally Posted by klaus

...
2. Can a threshold be configured if a post receives a certain negative count that it collapses or is greyed out or something to that effect? Example -3 thumbs = post collapsed and can now only be read by pressing small plus symbol to return to normal view. If it receives enough positive thumbs it will be returned to a regular looking post.
...

[Mr.Lucky]

Love this mod, thank you for making it. Two questions:

1. Can you tell me where to make a change so when the votes are positive, it shows a + symbol?

2. If there are no votes, is it a simple code change to only show the thumbs and not the number 0?

Thanks!

[jswiss]

Hi Scandal

Thanks for a super mod - installed successfully!

How do I change the color of the text under the thumbs up/down text?

Right now it's green for a thumbs up and red for a thumbs down... I'd like to change these colors to gray...

Thanks!

[ciano1]

I've been using this mod for about a week now and I love it.
Here are 3 suggestions that I think will improve it alot:

1: When there is no thumbs up on a post, just display the thumbs up buttons and dont display a zero.

2: Add an option to turn off unvoting posts (once you thumb up a post it cannot be undone)

3: If your post has received thumbs up, display the number as you would any other post.

Love the mod

[Muhammad Rahman]

I think found a bug in the commentary article ..

such is the case:

when pressing thumb up it will be counted one ..
but when browsers reload thumb up lost count ..

sorry my English bad ..

[curriertech]

Originally Posted by jswiss

Hi Scandal

Thanks for a super mod - installed successfully!

How do I change the color of the text under the thumbs up/down text?

Right now it's green for a thumbs up and red for a thumbs down... I'd like to change these colors to gray...

Thanks!

Edit this template: sc_thumbs_postbit_info

[dizzynation]

(EDIT) - Does not work with vb 4.2 and vBSEO 3.6

A few questions:

I am using vBSEO but I have the Likes/Thanks system disabled from the beginning (I have used the .php script to change from vbseo likes to thumbs up

Currently there are no thumbs up options in posts and I followed your instructions for adding thumbs up in posts


ALSO
**I am getting a strange warning with my custom firefox plugin that my forum is now linking to newrelic.com

Waring** 1289ms loading newrelic.com - (Does this have to do with this MOD?)

*EDIT*- If it is with this MOD you should have in the description that the mod includes app analytics for your purposes...

[wally07]

Originally Posted by wally07

Excellent hack! TY.

There's only a small problem I encountered while using postbit on any theme (including the default vBulletin theme). Using postbit_legacy doesn't have the follow issue.

Plugin enabled


Plugin disabled



The post #'s and the physical post layout get thrown out of whack a small bit.

I've reuploaded the contents to the server as well as re-installed the product xml; same results. I will try to add it to my other mostly stock test forum (1 plugin - a chatbox) and see if the results are the same.

Also, the:
Thumbs Up/Down
Received:
Given:

Are not aligned. See below:


Many thanks in advance.

edit:
Forgot to mention, I'm using vB 4.2 patch level 3

This still happens on my test forum with no other plugins installed. I even went as far as disabling all plugins on my live site and only enabling this plugin. Same issue, unfortunately.