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

[iran.gs]

lnstalled

[The Notorious]

Does this hack have an option to hide the post till someone clicks thanks?

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.0:

Invalid SQL:

               UPDATE vb3_user
               SET post_thanks_user_amount = post_thanks_user_amount - 1
               WHERE userid IN ();

MySQL Error  : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ')' at line 3
Error Number : 1064
Date         : Wednesday, August 9th 2006 @ 09:07:13 PM
Script       : http://www.gamerzneeds.net/forums/showthread.php?do=post_thanks_remove_all_ajax&p=156656
Referrer     :
IP Address   : 
Username     : 
Classname    : vb_database

I've been using the thanks button on my site for so long, upgraded my forums to vb 3.6 gold and then upgraded to this version a few days ago, and then just a few hours ago I had a few database errors come through relating to the database error above.

Anyideas what caused that?

Thanks

It looks like an error with removing all thanks from a post. Any of your admins report this error?

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by unitedpunjab

How to totally disable this hack for guests ?
for the past few days google spends an hour daily trying to thank posts.

I'm glad Google likes your posts

I have down on my list to add a noflow or something like that.

[firstrebel]

If a post is edited the 'Thanks' disappears. Is this by design?

Bob

[Darat]

I was wondering if and if yes how I could I search for thanked posts in a given month - ideally what I would like to do is add another search option "Posts thanked this month".

[texasasl]

Does anybody knows if it works with vbulletin 3.5.3 ??????

I am trying to install it but I get this error message:

"Database error in vBulletin 3.5.3:

Invalid SQL:

### INSERT QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
INSERT INTO vb3_plugin
(`active`, `executionorder`, `title`, `hookname`, `phpcode`, `product`)"

and also I get:

"MySQL Error : Unknown column 'executionorder' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Saturday, August 12th 2006 @ 08:55:30 PM
Script : http://www.inout.gr/admincp/plugin.php
Referrer : http://www.inout.gr/admincp/plugin.php?do=productadd"

Can somebody help??? Thank you in advance.

[ktaylor]

I think there was a mesage about that earlier like on page 2 or 3 that said this would only work on 3.5.4 and up or something to that nature.

[texasasl]

Originally Posted by ktaylor

I think there was a mesage about that earlier like on page 2 or 3 that said this would only work on 3.5.4 and up or something to that nature.

No there is nothing about. There is a reference from some more members for the same problem but actually nobody replied or proposed something that solves the problem or explains clearly that does not work with earlier versions as 3.5.3 or 3.5.4. That's I'm asking for. Thanks anyway for your reply.

P.S. Finally I resolved the problem by installing the previous version of this hack and it works fine. Thanks to Abe1.

[Eagle Creek]

The GIF file isnt showing up anywhere, so I can't thank for threads?