Show Thread Enhancements - [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack

Post Thank You Hack

STAFF EDIT:
Note - The mod author has been unreachable for some time, but the vbulletin.org community has stepped up to provide a number of individual fixes over the years. ForceHSS, Hippy, and Seven Skins have all combined many of these fixes into product files.

ALL CREDIT STILL GOES TO ABE1 And this is still 'his' mod. Please still mark the mod as installed if you use any version of it.

That said so you don't need to apply a dozen + small fixes yourself you should consider downloading one of the updated packages below:

Hippy has one in this post.

AND / OR

ForceHSS has one in this post.

AND/OR

Seven Skins has one in this post.


- Original File Specs: post_thanks_7_82.zip (26.4 KB, 24844 downloads) - Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).
- There are five total patched versions available, some with and without the search fix - I've replaced the main file with the patched versions... please be sure to download and install the correct version, the main mod post contains links to additional information and patched files!
- If Abe1 returns he can request these packages be removed.


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:

• Files edited: 0
• Templates edited: 0
• Files to upload: 8
• Time to install: 1 minute max

Updates:


Version 7.80 (12/30/09):

• Release of this hack for vBulletin version 4.0

Version 7.81 (01/02/10):

• Fixed some install and uninstall database errors.
• Made styling for postbit legacy a little better.
• Fixed the "separator" issue.
• Javascript file updated.

Version 7.82 (01/03/10):

• Fixed info alignment issues in the postbit for custom edited phrases.

NOTE: *** Offer for paid services removed ***

[pretty.witch]

Thanks, but that code editions didnt' work for this plugin.

Worked good for the others I installed.

[Hippy]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=2264681&postcount=1941" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showp...postcount=1941</a>
The edit isn't what I was taking about its the updated

[pretty.witch]

Thanks, finally I've installed post_thanks_7_84
I was trying to install 7_82

[stevieb]

Can you search for all thanks received/left on the user profile / postbit_legacy with this hack yet? You used to be able to but now I am getting a DB error as 3.8 allowed it, 4.2 doesn't.

Thanks

[Pocket Aces]

Do we need to go all through file and template edits to use this mod for vbulletin 4.2.2 or is there an updated zip file we can download to install this mod?

We currently have the vbulletin 3.8.x version of this mod disabled in our vbulletin 4.2.2 board.

[stevieb]

Originally Posted by Wolver2

I am using this Thank You hack for a long time now but I am always getting an email database error which might be an Exploit?

Invalid SQL:

			REPLACE INTO search (userid, ipaddress, personal, searchuser, forumchoice, sortby, sortorder, searchtime, showposts, orderedids, dateline, displayterms, searchhash)
			VALUES (2, '111.103.181.221', 1, 'Yan', '', 'post.dateline', 'DESC', 0.00166, 1, '66206,20173,12678,7985', 1379916430, 'a:6:{s:5:\"words\";a:0:{}s:9:\"highlight\";a:0:{}s:6:\"common\";a:0:{}s:5:\"users\";a:1:{i:2916;s:10:\"Yan\";}s:6:\"forums\";i:0;s:7:\"options\";a:3:{s:11:\"starteronly\";i:0;s:11:\"childforums\";i:1;s:6:\"action\";s:7:\"process\";}}', 'd4cc56b84b87e2eaf6534535312553ae');

MySQL Error   : Table 'c01_forumname.search' doesn't exist
Error Number  : 1146
Request Date  : Monday, September 23rd 2013 @ 10:07:10 AM
Error Date    : Monday, September 23rd 2013 @ 10:07:10 AM
Script        : http://theurl.com/post_thanks.php?do=findthanks&u=2916
Referrer      : 
IP Address    : 112.101.181.221
Username      : MYUSERNAMEWASHERE
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.1.66-0+squeeze1

I get this when trying to search for thanks - mine reads as:

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.0:

Invalid SQL:

			REPLACE INTO search (userid, ipaddress, personal, searchuser, forumchoice, sortby, sortorder, searchtime, showposts, orderedids, dateline, displayterms, searchhash)
			VALUES (3, 'xx.xx.xxx.xx', 1, 'Admin', '', 'post.dateline', 'DESC', 0.01147, 1, 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1381866990, 'a:6:{s:5:\"words\";a:0:{}s:9:\"highlight\";a:0:{}s:6:\"common\";a:0:{}s:5:\"users\";a:1:{i:3;s:14:\"Admin\";}s:6:\"forums\";i:0;s:7:\"options\";a:3:{s:11:\"starteronly\";i:0;s:11:\"childforums\";i:1;s:6:\"action\";s:7:\"process\";}}', '33e90639bfc462589be1b0cdd46a2dcd');

MySQL Error   : Table 'forum_db-name.search' doesn't exist
Error Number  : 1146
Request Date  : Tuesday, October 15th 2013 @ 07:56:30 PM
Error Date    : Tuesday, October 15th 2013 @ 07:56:30 PM
Script        : http://MY-DOMAIN-NAME/post_thanks.php?do=findthanks&u=3
Referrer      : 
IP Address    : XX.XX.XXX.XX
Username      : Admin
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.1.70-cll

It used to work on vB 3.8 but since the upgrade if people try and search for recent thanks using the thread as /post_thanks.php?do=findthanks&u=x the error appears....

[stevieb]

Originally Posted by Pocket Aces

Do we need to go all through file and template edits to use this mod for vbulletin 4.2.2 or is there an updated zip file we can download to install this mod?

We currently have the vbulletin 3.8.x version of this mod disabled in our vbulletin 4.2.2 board.

Ive done it and works fine, just trying to now get the search feature working.

Good luck. Just remember not to uninstall the old version or your existing thanks will vanish

[stevieb]

Originally Posted by stevieb

Can you search for all thanks received/left on the user profile / postbit_legacy with this hack yet? You used to be able to but now I am getting a DB error as 3.8 allowed it, 4.2 doesn't.

Thanks

I have the hack installed that allows /recent_thanks.php but want the numbers to be links in the about me page where it tells the number of thanks given/received.

Also any idea how to align the values properly? See image below - the red thanks received needs to move right (a lot)...

[pretty.witch]

This is what worked for me, with 4.2.2:

2. For those who feel comfortable with editing files.

In class_core.php locate lines 5683-5685 (class_core.php is in the 'includes' folder)
Code:

case E_NOTICE:
// Just ignore these completely //
break;

Add lines for Deprecated and/or Strict errors as required ;

Code:

case E_NOTICE:
case E_STRICT:
case E_DEPRECATED:
// Just ignore these completely //
break;

This will bypass the additional error reporting.

And installed post thanks 7_84. I 've downloaded from this post, can?t find what page.

[Pocket Aces]

Installed Hippy's version. Uploaded all files overwriting the old ones then installed the xml file. Works flawlessly. Thanks everyone. Hopefully we could use this on our live site with 16 million posts when we upgrade our vbulletin 3 board to vbulletin 4.