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.

MAKE SURE YOU CLICK INSTALL!
You will get an email when a new version is released.

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

[cavyspirit]

One of my users is reporting that the buttons don't show up for him as he is on Safari (mac). Works on a different browser. Any ideas on that one?

[Eagle Creek]

Isn't showing up in FireFox, nor Internet Explorer overhere.

[unitedpunjab]

Originally Posted by Abe1

I'm glad Google likes your posts

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

The problem is much worse.Google has cached most links as
/showthread.php?do=post_thanks_add&p=xxxxx
and only getting No Permission Messages Instead of The contents of the Thread.

Ref https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....2&postcount=65

[cavyspirit]

Yikes. I'm really hoping we can get this sorted out, because I depend heavily on the search engines, especially google, and have vBSEO installed as well.

[Roxie]

Originally Posted by firstrebel

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

Bob

Yes. That way they can't thank again.

[Eagle Creek]

Originally Posted by Eagle Creek

Isn't showing up in FireFox, nor Internet Explorer overhere.

Anyone?

[Schahab]

Is there realy a problem with google spidering the threads? Then i must delte the hack!

[unitedpunjab]

Well this is an Excellent Hack and the Problem might be with my setup.
I am not sure but i do have a problem.

here is my Google sitemap stats

[Darat]

Abe1 - this is a great mod but I can't use it on my live forum (almost 2 million posts) because searching for 'thanks' just brings the forum to a virtual stop. I notice you mention on the 3.5 version thread you were going to look into this perhaps by indexing some fields? Also related to this is there a way to limit searches to just posts thanked this month?

[movielist]

Originally Posted by unitedpunjab

Well this is an Excellent Hack and the Problem might be with my setup.
I am not sure but i do have a problem.

here is my Google sitemap stats

Isn't this just because when it's crawling posts, it sees a link (the thank you button) and tries to crawl that too?

It doesn't necessarily mean that your posts aren't getting crawled, just that these links (which are getting No Permission) are being crawled as well.

I may be wrong.