New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like v3 (vB4) [AJAX]

What it is: Advanced Thanks/Like mod is designed to cut down on spam and increase useful content in your forum by using a peer encouragement system - users thank/like each others posts, which can give them access to attachements, post content etc, as well as encourage the thanked person to post more great content.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please remember to click the, button to the right if you installed the mod ---->

What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Importer from Abe's Thanks mod (vB3 / vB4) and vBSEO "Likes" now available in Lite version!


Major Features: Lite

Require a Button Click: Allows you to hide the content of a post, or hie an attachment, until the person clicks a button on the post.

Statistics: Shows the top 5 people for; Giving / Receiving button clicks.

Collapsable postbit stats: Shows how many button clicks a person has given, received etc in the postbit. Admins can determine what statistics can show in the postbit to control sizes etc. The postbit is also collapsable.

Admin Permissions: Control things such as who can click buttons, require button clicks, what shows in postbit, what options can run concurrently, per forum permisions etc.

Reputation: Add / Remove Reputation for each of your button clicks.

Notifications: Receive alerts when a member clicked on one of the buttons for one of your posts.

Import Thanks: Import script to import "thanks" from Abe's [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack on vBulletin.org. It will work with both vB3 and vB4 versions of this mod.

Import Likes: Import script to import "likes" from vBSEO.


Major Features: Pro

Infinite Buttons: Ability to create new buttons to press! No longer do you need to be limited by Thanks / Like / Dislike.

Auto Collapse Posts: Collapses a post so it doesnt show up by using a formulae for button clicks of your choosing.

User Postbit Config: Lets users decide what postbit stats they want to see.

Additional permissions: Un-click a button. Control how many stats show on the statistics page, set permissions per subforum.

Integrated Controls: You can now integrate the button clicking controls into the post footer, like many of you requested.

Buttons in First Post Only: This allows you to only make the first post thankable. If you forum is based around news, releases or anything similar this will allow your users to easily see the quality of the thread in question.

Button Click Anonymity: This feature will be extremely helpful to forums who like the idea of a "dislike" button, but don't like the drama it brings. Now you can set certain buttons to be anonymous - no one will see who clicked.

Post Colour Thresholds: Ever wanted an easy way for members to tell if a post is helpful or trash? Colour thresholds let you change the colour of posts depending on how many clicks of a button they receive. Members can now see at a glance whether or not a post is helpful, interesting or pointless.



Complete Feature List
Lite

• Front-End
  • Click buttons for posts (permissions and settings permitting)
  • Require button clicks to see content (whole post is hidden)
  • Require button clicks to see attachments
  • Top 5 Given / Received statistics for each button
  • Collapsible postbit statistics
  • (vB4) Forum Sidebar block for button feeds
  • Hottest Threads / Posts page showing most clicked posts and threads
  • Each button can be set as "Default" for Attachments and Content. When posting via Quick Reply, the default button(s) will be set as Required
  • The "thanks bar" in posts displays the number of users who has clicked each button, also for non-forum integration areas
• AdminCP
  • Control display order of buttons
  • Set permissions per usergroup to be able to click and require clicks of buttons
  • Per-category toggle of what buttons are enabled
  • Search interface to find clicks for a specific post
  • Maintenance options; Clean up clicks that are attached to deleted posts, Recalculate the Given / Received statistics, Rebuild Reputation
  • Manual postbit stats relocation
  • Hide APTL info from guests
  • Globally disable notifications for new clicks
  • Disable APTL integration with non-forum areas via vBulletin Options
  • Disable "Total click count" on the "thanks bar"
  • Notifications can be disabled on a per-button basis
  • Disable button text
• Integration
  • Social Groups
  • User Notes
  • Visitor Messaging
  • (vB4) [DBTech] DragonByte Gallery: Images
  • (vB4) [DBTech] DragonByte Reviews: Reviews
• (vB4) Forum Block
  • Tabbed interface to choose between "Recent" and "Top" button clicks
  • Ability to select from any of the available buttons and display the 5 recent clicks from that button
  • "Top" tab on the forum block, lists top clicks for the selected button
  • Control the timespan in which the "Top" period is calculated for
  • Deny usergroup access

Pro

• Front-End
  • "Entry List" page; a browseable list of all button clicks
  • Users can hide postbit items via the UserCP
  • Users can turn off notifications via the UserCP
  • Hottest Threads / Posts has a date range filter
• AdminCP
  • Create unlimited buttons to click
  • Ability to create Post Colour Thresholds to highlight posts in different colours
  • (vB4) Choose what portions of the postbit should be coloured via the post colour thresholds.
  • Minimum posts required to click a button
  • Per-usergroup setting to become immune to clicks of a button
  • Per-usergroup setting whether who clicked a button is displayed
  • Per-usergroup setting to allow disabling clicks of a specific button for a post
  • Per-usergroup setting to allow removing a click of a button
  • Limit button clicks per day
  • Per-forum ability to set each button to only display in the first post
  • Per-forum toggle of what buttons are enabled
  • Set more / less than 5 for the Given / Received statistics
  • Ability to auto-collapse posts using provided formula or input for your own using your custom buttons
  • Move the "Post Like / Thanks" cloud above / below posts, above / below signatures
  • Ability to delete entries found in the Search interface
  • Email notifications (can be disabled globally) on a per-button basis
  • Disable notifications on a per-button basis
  • Set a flood limit (in seconds) that serves as a delay between button clicks
  • Individual users now be excluded from using the mod
  • Turn off individual buttons' integration with non-forum areas
  • Turn off "Given" and "Received stats on a per-button basis
• Integration
  • Blog Entries
  • Blog Comments

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[GeorgeB85]

Originally Posted by bzcomputers

Yes, under "Manage Buttons" then "Edit" you will see these options:



You will need to select "Yes" under each active button you have.

Thank you kindly

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Chadi

Is this possible on mobile?

Unfortunately not, sorry

Originally Posted by AusPhotography

We are using another jQuery tool and because thanks.js uses .noconflict; it breaks.

So we fixed it by
This

$.noConflict(true)(function($)

Replaced by

$(function()

I'm guessing you used .noconflict in case of an issue, but when I need to use jQuery it means I have a non standard setup.

Can we make the use of .noconflict optional?

No, this cannot be made optional.

Originally Posted by AusPhotography

Also... Can we make the jQuery version a parameter, currently

PHP Code:

public static $jQueryVersion     = '1.7.2'; 


in class_core.php
I've changed this to 1.11.0 and it works fine.

As you yourself pointed out, it is a parameter in that file. I'm not sure what else you're looking for?


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Advanced Post Thanks / Like v3.2.9

Changes To Existing Features:

Disable Post Refresh

• Now also prevents APTL's HIDE feature from running
• Implements compatibility with 3rd party HIDE modifications
• Keeps APTL's buttons working

Fillip

[AusPhotography]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

As you yourself pointed out, it is a parameter in that file. I'm not sure what else you're looking for?

Put it in in the Admin CP options

[ketchup]

My vB version is the latest v. 4.2.2 PL1
I followed instructions fully: upload + CHMOD 777 then import XML from admin CP. I had a message saying the: "/forums/dbtech/thanks/includes/class_install.php appears to be missing!"
I checked in the folder includes, the file class_install.php is there ..
I uploaded that file again confirmed overwrite but when importing XML I had same error message ..
Please help.

[ketchup]

I removed all uploaded files/folders then reinstalled - this time all successful but when I went to DBtech - Post thank / Manage Button I had the message: Invalid Button = 0
Please help!

[ozzy47]

Click on Repair Cache in the DBTech - Post Thanks menu in your ACP, you may need to do it a few times.

[ketchup]

Thank ozzy, I have looked to previous posts and done exactly as you adviced. It works right now.

[ozzy47]

Good to hear.

[findingpeace]

I love this mod, but it takes a toll on my site's performance.

All other DBTech mods are so good with caching and speed, so I decided to investigate what's up with this one specifically. I found the culprit to be the following hook:

Global Initialisation in global_bootstrap_init_complete

Which calls this file:

/dbtech/thanks/hooks/global_start.php

Which in turn calls /dbtech/thanks/includes/class_core.php (for THANKS::init($vbulletin))

In class_core.php, under the function public static function init($vbulletin), if I comment out the following line:

self::_getPermissions();

And test my website, page load times drop .1 - .3 seconds, consistently. This may not seem like a lot, but under heavy load, it makes a huge difference.

Because this is a global hook, it causes slowness across the entire website, even pages that don't have any Thanks / Likes logic on them.

Of course, I can't actually leave this line commented out because I'm sure it's important.

So I would ask if there's anything we can do to optimize this, considering it's global?

I also have User Tagging installed, and I tested the same with that. The Global Initialisation for that has no impact on performance. I can disable the entire mod and the site is the same speed. the getPermissions function is identical to the Thanks / Likes getPermissions function.

So what specifically about Global Initialisation and getPermissions for Thanks / Likes is slowing things down?

Note: This testing was done on my QA environment, which is 100% vanilla vBulletin 4.2.2 with no other mods installed.

Thanks!