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Post Thank You Hack 1.10 · **Released**: 12-27-2004

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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:

Showing the 'thanks' button
Showing post after 'thanks' (admin view)
Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
Stats in member?s profile
Hacks settings
Update counts view

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

maharajah · #**252** 07-11-2005, 10:24 PM

There are thanks on the posts and all templates installed fine.

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Abe1 · #**253** 07-12-2005, 03:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maharajah

There are thanks on the posts and all templates installed fine.

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Yes see the people that thanked but you dont see the words "The following users have thanked"?

maharajah · #**254** 07-12-2005, 04:39 AM

No i can thank the users and all the stats update.
But after thanking the box under the 1st post that details who thanked doesnt appear at all.

Everything else works.

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Abe1 · #**255** 07-12-2005, 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maharajah

No i can thank the users and all the stats update.
But after thanking the box under the 1st post that details who thanked doesnt appear at all.

Everything else works.

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Make sure you have

PHP Code:


			
<!-- post thank you hack -->

$post_thanks

<!-- end post thank you hack -->

at the bottom of postbit and postbit_legacy.

maharajah · #**256** 07-12-2005, 11:42 PM

Thats the first thing i checked, its there and still no luck.

Maybe the SQL didnt run properly.
Do you have a SQL intall and uninstall script for mySQL i could run from phpMyAdmin so i can Totally uninstall and reinstall ?????

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Abe1 · #**257** 07-13-2005, 04:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maharajah

Thats the first thing i checked, its there and still no luck.

Maybe the SQL didnt run properly.
Do you have a SQL intall and uninstall script for mySQL i could run from phpMyAdmin so i can Totally uninstall and reinstall ?????

.

Yes. You can open post_thanks_install.php from your acp. There is an uninstall there also.

maharajah · #**258** 07-13-2005, 10:49 PM

doesnt remove tables entries and fields from the DB though.

I will have to manually do it all again.

Do u have SQL script for the database changes to i can run it manually ?
Not a php version.

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Abe1 · #**259** 07-14-2005, 02:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maharajah

doesnt remove tables entries and fields from the DB though.

I will have to manually do it all again.

Do u have SQL script for the database changes to i can run it manually ?
Not a php version.

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Hmmm.... As far as I know, it removes EVERYTHING. There is no reason should leave anything around. Maybe your not running the unistall script right.

As for the SQL scripts, sorry I only have what is in the installer.

1nf3rn0 · #**260** 07-14-2005, 11:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1nf3rn0

getting this error when i click on the thanks button everything goes thru and shows properly, but as it says thankl you for saying thanks, it shows the below error...other than that, that is the only problem...dont know why or how...i have added maybe 2 other hacks which would be the welcome panel hack and the who visited today (24 hour option) hack...if you can help thank you...if not im lookin more into it now!

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /global.php on line 329

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/functions.php on line 2290

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlackRabbit

Yep.. me too.. getting the same error here as well.. please fix it please..

BR

somehting so small and i admit i fugged up!....the reason for getting that error was because i didnt edit the legacy_postbit template witht hte post thank you hack...alls well now.....DUH...DOH....ARRRGHHH....LOL

Abe1 · #**261** 07-18-2005, 02:15 AM

Beta version for vb3.5 was released here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=92410

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