Post Thank You Hack 1.10

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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:

1. Showing the 'thanks' button
2. Showing post after 'thanks' (admin view)
3. Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
4. Stats in member?s profile
5. Hacks settings
6. Update counts view

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

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by JOM

Yes boss, every month I'd like to reset everyone on my board back to zero, is this possible? (I hope to have a monthly prize for the *most thanked* user)

You can uninstall then re-install. No need to do the template of file edits though.

[xfaethorx]

has anyone noticed a problem with this when you split a thread with thanked posts?
i just did it and it caused me quite a few problems , i had to do this in function_showthread.php to get rid of a few errors.

if($post_thanks_cash){
foreach ($post_thanks_cash AS $thanks)
{
if ($thanks[postid] == $post[postid])
{
$nb ++;
}
}
}
the downside is that although the posts were thanked they are no longer recorded as thanked in the split thread. The above gets rid of the foreach and header problems i had. Was this already solved?

[Bubble #5]

Originally Posted by xfaethorx

has anyone noticed a problem with this when you split a thread with thanked posts? Was this already solved?

Most people don't split threads so this is your lucky day - you're the first to find it :nervous: I'm sure Abe will address it as it is a major bug :ermm: Hopefully it won't be to hard to solve.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Bubble #5

Most people don't split threads so this is your lucky day - you're the first to find it :nervous: I'm sure Abe will address it as it is a major bug :ermm: Hopefully it won't be to hard to solve.

He is not the first to find it. It has been reported before. I'm cworking on updates for this version any more so dont expect to see an update that will fix it.

[xfaethorx]

its ok i dont' expect it to be fixed, thanks for the reply though. At least if anyone else has the problem theres a solution. Its not really a massive problem to be honest (well the fax you lose the thanks isn't a problem the fact it break is!). Theres a solution to the problem so its all good .

[b65ran]

Thanks for the nice hack. I have one question. Is there any way I can remove thanks for a certain user. Right now we have "remove all" options. Is it posibble to remove only for one user. The reason I need this because one of our user has created several accounts. And he thanks to one of his user name to get more reputations points.

Thanks in advanced.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by b65ran

Thanks for the nice hack. I have one question. Is there any way I can remove thanks for a certain user. Right now we have "remove all" options. Is it posibble to remove only for one user. The reason I need this because one of our user has created several accounts. And he thanks to one of his user name to get more reputations points.

Thanks in advanced.

No function like that.

[G-Unot]

I installed the hack and follow each and every single step straight but the Thank button doesn't appear in any of the threads and posts.

[Alphawolf83]

Originally Posted by G-Unot

I installed the hack and follow each and every single step straight but the Thank button doesn't appear in any of the threads and posts.

Did you activate this hack in ACP?

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by G-Unot

I installed the hack and follow each and every single step straight but the Thank button doesn't appear in any of the threads and posts.

are you looking at your posts or other users posts?