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 hornstar1337

I have uploaded a pic to show you what i mean.

see how it has the asterix around the words. that means it is disabled im pretty sure.


I clicked on *[post_thanks_special_actions]* and then put in a user id who had thanked heaps of people for no reason, it said it processed each one fine. but if i put in that userid again, instead of not showing any, it says it processes each one again, which makes me believe it is not deleteing any thanks at all.

How do I fix this, because im not sure what you meant by acp navbar.

Can you upload a bigger pic? I can barely see this one.

[kirstyd]

We've just upgraded to 6.0 Gold, from 4.5

Code like <if condition="$thread[forumid]==22"> ... </if> works fine in the post_thanks_button template to show different images in different forums, but the same code is failing to work in the post_thanks_postbit template.

Any ideas? Debugging shows that the post_thanks_postbit is definitey being used, but $thread[forumid] doesn't seem to be set to anything.

thanks
kirsty

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by kirstyd

We've just upgraded to 6.0 Gold, from 4.5

Code like <if condition="$thread[forumid]==22"> ... </if> works fine in the post_thanks_button template to show different images in different forums, but the same code is failing to work in the post_thanks_postbit template.

Any ideas? Debugging shows that the post_thanks_postbit is definitey being used, but $thread[forumid] doesn't seem to be set to anything.

thanks
kirsty

It is placed in a function now.

Try using the hook post_thanks_function_fetch_post_thanks_template_st art and put something like
global $thread;

and see if you get anything.

[kirstyd]

Originally Posted by Abe1

It is placed in a function now.

Try using the hook post_thanks_function_fetch_post_thanks_template_st art and put something like
global $thread;

and see if you get anything.

Thanks for the speedy reply, that works just fine :up:

[vampireus]

I also have problem with the "thanks" button not show up. Installed on a clean forum.

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by vampireus

I also have problem with the "thanks" button not show up. Installed on a clean forum.

Are you just looking at your posts? Do you have more then one template?

[vampireus]

I uploaded every files and edited templates as told in the Instruction. I check other posts, but the button do now show up.

Here are some images.

[Hornstar]

I have a problem at the top of my forum it is saying Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/functions_post_thanks.php on line 190

here is a thread one of my members posted about this problem http://www.gamerzneeds.net/forums/ge...ding-page.html

Only occured upon upgrading.

[dj_melayu]

I don't get anything when I go to post_thanks.php. I get a blank page. Is it the statistic page?
I've also get a blank page if I click for Find All post thanks by this user.

[q8-star]

I had this hack for a long time now, and I've just enabled the option to enable reputation when thanked.

But I was wondering since there is old thanks, how can I update the counters so it does count those thanks as reputation?