Show Thread Enhancements - [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack

vB 3.7 version of this hack here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=165673
vB 4.0 version of this hack here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231666

Post Thank You Hack 7.4

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: (If installed on vb 3.7)

• Files edited: 0
• Templates edited: 0
• Files to upload: 7
• Time to install: 1 minute max

Updates:

Version 7.0 (12/20/07):

• Release of this hack for vBulletin version 3.7
• This version works on all vBulletin versions from 3.6.0 and up

Version 7.1 (12/24/07):

• Fixed up the vb3.7 profile block code including fixing showing your info and not the member you are looking at.

Version 7.2 (01/24/08):

• Updated files: post_thanks.php, functions_post_thanks.php
• Updated templates: post_thanks_memberinfo_block, post_thanks_member_info
• New option: Remove User's Thanks Count When Deleting Post
• New phrase: post_thanks_search_user_gave
• FIX User reputation level now updates. (Thanks to liwo for this one.)
• NEW Added option to view all posts a user has thanked.
• FIX Fixed Special Action - Delete All of a Users Thanks
• FIX Should have fixed some 'foreach()' errors.

Version 7.3 (03/15/08):

• Updated file: functions_post_thanks.php
• Updated template: post_thanks_memberinfo_block
• Deleted template: post_thanks_memberinfo_css
• New option: Choice to use Markup Usernames or not. (Thanks to Namaless)
• New option: Ban User from Getting Thanks
• New option: Max Thanks a User can Give Per Day
• FIX Fixed repeating bug on vb 3.6.7 forums.
• CHANGE Changed where the post thanks info shows on the Profile Page. Moved to same box as statistics. (This will require a template edit if you are running vb3.7 beta 2-4)

Version 7.4 (03/21/08):

• FIX: Fixed Profile Stats for vb3.7.0 RC1 users.

Please post your comments or suggestions for this hack. I read ALL posts.

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Pictures:

1. Showing the 'thanks' button and stats in Postbit
2. Showing post after 'thanks' (user view)
3. Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
4. Stats in members profile and link
5. Link in Search drop down menu
6. Hacks settings

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by rjmjr69

Do we have to do the template edits again? For upgraders

There were a few changes I think. Just look them over to make sure.

[rjmjr69]

Thanks installed

[rjmjr69]

I can not seem to find any but I did them all over thank you very much. So post groan is done?

[NolF]

Just installed both hacks (groan and thanks), they seem to be working perfectly [3.6.5]. Love the new functions and admin options :P

thanks Abe ^^

[RS_Jelle]

A suggestion for the post_thanks_button template: hide the whole HTML code instead of hiding the button with the display:none CSS code. This saves a bit of bandwidth and generates smaller pages. You can also speed it even more up when you replace the template conditional with and if statement for the eval('$post_thanks_button = " ' . fetch_template('post_thanks_button') . '";'); code in the postbit_display_start plugin.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by RS_Jelle

A suggestion for the post_thanks_button template: hide the whole HTML code instead of hiding the button with the display:none CSS code. This saves a bit of bandwidth and generates smaller pages. You can also speed it even more up when you replace the template conditional with and if statement for the eval('$post_thanks_button = " ' . fetch_template('post_thanks_button') . '";'); code in the postbit_display_start plugin.

I need the button there so if you remove your thanks the button comes back.

[RS_Jelle]

Originally Posted by Abe1

I need the button there so if you remove your thanks the button comes back.

Aah, forgotten that

[Quantnet]

Is there a way to find out which post a user thanks yet ? I believe I asked this a while ago but not sure if this feature is added to the new version.

[Abe1]

Version 6.0 (04/06/07):

• Totally re-wrote hack - please redo all template edits
• AJAX code moved to a file.
• templates are cached in showpost
• NEW - Option to delete all of a users thanks.
• Post thanks actions moved to files.
• New ACP options.
• Index the PostID column in the post_thanks table
• If you delete a user, all this thanks are deleted.
• When you change a Username, any thanks he gave his name changes by.
• When you physically remove a post, the thanks are deleted.
• New Setting - Post Count Needed to Use the Thanks Button
• Delete thanks when you hard delete a thread.
• New Setting - Ban Usergroups from Getting Thanks
• New Setting - Disable Giving Thanks if Post is X Days Old
• Much better security checking to make sure a user can use the thank you button.
• Any many more changes.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Quantnet.org

Is there a way to find out which post a user thanks yet ? I believe I asked this a while ago but not sure if this feature is added to the new version.

no.