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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.

xtreme-mobile · #**107** 03-18-2005, 07:09 PM

im having probs getting this to work

when ive uploaded the files etc and go to the installation bit i get the following error

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.6:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO phrase (phraseid, languageid, varname, text, phrasetypeid) VALUES (NULL, '0', 'post_thanks_update_post_thanks_counters', 'Post Thank You Counters', '2')
mysql error: Duplicate entry 'post_thanks_update_post_thanks_counters-0-2' for key 2

mysql error number: 1062

Date: Friday 18th of March 2005 02:07:00 PM
Script: http://www.extreme-mobile.com/forums...step=dophrases
Referer: http://www.extreme-mobile.com/forums...ks_install.php
Username: admin
IP Address: xx.xxx.xxx.xxx

any ideas?

Abe1 · #**108** 03-20-2005, 12:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xtreme-mobile

im having probs getting this to work

when ive uploaded the files etc and go to the installation bit i get the following error

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.6:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO phrase (phraseid, languageid, varname, text, phrasetypeid) VALUES (NULL, '0', 'post_thanks_update_post_thanks_counters', 'Post Thank You Counters', '2')
mysql error: Duplicate entry 'post_thanks_update_post_thanks_counters-0-2' for key 2

mysql error number: 1062

Date: Friday 18th of March 2005 02:07:00 PM
Script: http://www.extreme-mobile.com/forums...step=dophrases
Referer: http://www.extreme-mobile.com/forums...ks_install.php
Username: admin
IP Address: xx.xxx.xxx.xxx

any ideas?

It seems like you tried running this script twice. Try to run the uninstaller then the installer again.

Lionel · #**109** 03-21-2005, 10:31 PM

My problem is that none of the settings are displaying in the setting group in vboptions. And they are all in DB.

Reason: the order of mysql structure is not the same as the inserts.

so your group title got inserted in value
INSERT INTO setting VALUES ('post_thanks_on_off', 'post_thanks','1','1', 'yesno', 10, 0, 0);

Can you please post a fix for me about the proper order of the inserts?

posting a screenshot

Abe1 · #**110** 03-21-2005, 11:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lionel

My problem is that none of the settings are displaying in the setting group in vboptions. And they are all in DB.

Reason: the order of mysql structure is not the same as the inserts.

so your group title got inserted in value
INSERT INTO setting VALUES ('post_thanks_on_off', 'post_thanks','1','1', 'yesno', 10, 0, 0);

Can you please post a fix for me about the proper order of the inserts?

posting a screenshot

Your order doesn't look the same as everyone elses. I'll try to set up a fix for this in my next release. For not, use phpmyadmin and switch the values of what it says in the 'default value' and what it says is the 'oder value'. Edit for ALL 8 post_thanks options.

Lionel · #**111** 03-21-2005, 11:08 PM

with all the 0 and 1 at least tell me what they are.

Abe1 · #**112** 03-21-2005, 11:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lionel

with all the 0 and 1 at least tell me what they are.

Thouse should be in the defualt values.

Lionel · #**113** 03-21-2005, 11:12 PM

so basically I just worry about group title, option code and display order? The rest does not matter if I put 0 or 1, right?

Abe1 · #**114** 03-21-2005, 11:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lionel

so basically I just worry about group title, option code and display order? The rest does not matter if I put 0 or 1, right?

Correct. The main thing is to get the order going 10,20,30,40...

Or any number. Just make sure NOT '0'. If it's zero, it wont show.

chooah · #**115** 03-22-2005, 07:26 AM

installed the update, when i search for a users thanked posts it blanks, and still the thanks icon is not exclusive to the first post (I have it setup in AdminCP so it should only show in the first post...) ... anyone else sharing this experience?

Lionel · #**116** 03-23-2005, 02:48 AM

The counter in the first line does not seem to update, both as per attached image and as per your screenshot:
Posts/Compliments: 444/0

and the user has been thanked already.

Abe1 · #**117** 03-23-2005, 01:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lionel

The counter in the first line does not seem to update, both as per attached image and as per your screenshot:
Posts/Compliments: 444/0

and the user has been thanked already.

444/0 =

444 = his posts

0 = the amount of times he GAVE thanks

The next line says how many times he was thanked.

mikey86 · #**118** 03-25-2005, 02:30 AM

doe sthis hide the link aswell?

Abe1 · #**119** 03-27-2005, 12:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikey86

doe sthis hide the link aswell?

No it doesn't.

Polo · #**120** 03-28-2005, 01:35 PM

I modified this hack quite a bit and now i'm using it at my website

thanks Abe

[high]* Polo clicks install...[/high]

teedizz · #**121** 04-06-2005, 11:37 PM

Abe1...is there anyway to make it to where if someone clicks the Thanks icon that it kinda counts as a post? Reason being I run a forum where alot of stuff is hidden with the [*hide][*/hide] codes & I want it to where if someone clicks the thanks icon it shows whats behind the hide code instead of having to reply & see whats behind the hide code itself. Is this possible & if so how can this be done. Thank you bro

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