[AJAX] Post Thank You Hack

Post Thank You Hack 4.5

Click here for the vb3.6 version of this hack.

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.

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:

• Files edited: 0
• Templates edited: 4
• Files to upload: 1
• Time to install: 5 minutes max

Updates:

Version 2.0 GOLD (10/02/05):

• GOLD Release of this hack for vBulletin version 3.5

Version 2.1 (10/23/05):

• [BUG FIX] When merging/splitting threads
• [BUG FIX] When a user deletes his thanks (now removes post/rep count if option(s) on)
• [ADD PHRASE] post_thanks_user_says
• [ADD PHRASE] post_thanks_time_post
• [ADD PHRASE] post_thanks_times_post
• [ADD PHRASE] post_thanks_times_posts
• [DELETED PHRASE] post_thanks_thanks_amount

Version 2.2 (10/23/05):

• [ADDED] Re-counters. Found under Maintenance->Update Counters in your ACP.

Version 2.3 (11/05/05):

• [ADDED] Cache Templates

Version 2.4 (11/07/05):

• [ADDED] Setting to disallow users from deleting their own thanks.

Version 2.5 (11/09/05):

• [FIXED] All number outputs run through your vb setting of number format. (e.g. 1234 will now show as 1,234)

Version 2.6 (12/04/05):

• [FIXED] Number outputs for numbers between 1,000 and 1,999
• [FIXED] Showing of the thanks button on deleted threads pages.

Version 2.7 (12/18/05):

• [ADDED] Made the Thanks button a template
• [ADDED] Made a template group for this hacks templates
• [FIXED] One template edit. Find correction in zip file.
• [CHANGED] Made a pop-up now when you click Thanks instead of refreshing the page.
• [FIXED] Made the line when you give reputation points for thanks, a phrase.
• [ADDED] Paypal link so you can make a donation for this hack.

Version 2.8 (2/5/06):

• [FIXED] Removed one query thanks to AnhTuanCool (Abe clicks 'thanks')
• [ADDED] Option to allow users to thank their own post
• [ADDED] Option to allow a pop=up or refresh after a user clicks thanks

Version 2.9 (2/8/06):

• [FIXED] Fixed allot of things in regard to deleting thanks using the "remove all thanks" and "Remove your thanks".

Version 3.0 (2/10/06):

• [FIXED] Fixed one more thing in regard to "remove all thanks".
• [FIXED] Re-wrote the thanks actions so it they useless queried when you give or remove thanks.

Version 3.1 (2/11/06):

• [FIXED] Fixed bug with reputation.

Version 3.2 (2/13/06):

• [FIXED] Fixed another bug with reputation.
• [FIXED] Sped up the one query used to retrieve the thanks.

Version 3.3 (2/14/06):

• [FIXED] Fixed bug with removing own thanks.

Version 3.4 (3/17/06):

• [FIXED] Fixed a few bugs.

Version 4.0 (4/17/06):

• [ADDED] AJAX technology so your users don't have to refresh the page they are viewing!

Version 4.1 (4/18/06):

• [FIXED] Crashing of 'quick reply' when using Firefox.

Version 4.2 (4/23/06):

• [FIXED] If you have vboption 'Add Template Name in HTML Comments' set to 'Yes', button was not showing.
• [FIXED] Uncached template when viewing a PM
• [FIXED] Getting sent to index page when clicking thanks on some forums.
• [FIXED] Link to member's profile from the thank box.
• [FIXED] The post thank count not updating. (Recommend you recount thanks. (ACP->Maintenance->Update Counters)

Version 4.3 (5/4/06):

• [FIXED] Optimized a lot of the templates.
• [ADDED] Easy integration with my Post Groan Hack.

Version 4.4 (5/7/06):

• [FIXED] Bug with AJAX if you had the date showing.

Version 4.5 (6/19/06):

• [FIXED] Bug with AJAX if you had hacks that added things to your output.

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' (admin view)
4. Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
5. Stats in members profile and link
6. Link in Search drop down menu
7. Hacks settings

This hack is created for your use free of charge. No payment is requested. However, if you would like to donate money for the work I put in to this hack, a donation would show your appreciation.

[Amaranth]

Hi Abe1. Thanks for this great feature, it is very popular on my board.

One thing we have noticed, is that the restriction on giving reputation is not always taken into account in relation to this mod... If I post a Thank you, I am not able to give the author of the post further reputation points for that post. (Until I have given reputation to someone else, as I have configured my vBulletin) But if I give the author reputation points, and then try to post a Thank you - then the restriction is not taken into consideration, and I am able to give the author rep two times

... I hope this isnt't too vague..? Not a BIG problem, but I think you like to know about these things...

Thanks again!

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by Amaranth

Hi Abe1. Thanks for this great feature, it is very popular on my board.

One thing we have noticed, is that the restriction on giving reputation is not always taken into account in relation to this mod... If I post a Thank you, I am not able to give the author of the post further reputation points for that post. (Until I have given reputation to someone else, as I have configured my vBulletin) But if I give the author reputation points, and then try to post a Thank you - then the restriction is not taken into consideration, and I am able to give the author rep two times

... I hope this isnt't too vague..? Not a BIG problem, but I think you like to know about these things...

Thanks again!

I hope to work on the rep system for this hack soon. But it will only be released to the version for vb3.6.

[iamnofear]

I received a blank page when I tried to import new product. May u help me ?

[magic168]

Something is majorly wrong and I can't figure it out. I had this working perfectly on my old forum, but then when I had to reinstall fresh, it doesn't work anymore on the new installation.

First off, no button appears. I viewed source and saw that it was not printing the $post_thanks_button_image variable. It starts off with an a href and ends with an /a with NO IMG SRC in between.

So I tried just copying the code for $post_thanjs_button_image into the $post_thanks_button variable...and the button shows up.

But the AJAX is all messed up for some reason.

Can you PM me for some help?

[Abe1]

Originally Posted by magic168

Something is majorly wrong and I can't figure it out. I had this working perfectly on my old forum, but then when I had to reinstall fresh, it doesn't work anymore on the new installation.

First off, no button appears. I viewed source and saw that it was not printing the $post_thanks_button_image variable. It starts off with an a href and ends with an /a with NO IMG SRC in between.

So I tried just copying the code for $post_thanjs_button_image into the $post_thanks_button variable...and the button shows up.

But the AJAX is all messed up for some reason.

Can you PM me for some help?

Are you looking at a post you made? or at someone elses post?

[JohnBee]

Originally Posted by magic168

Something is majorly wrong and I can't figure it out. I had this working perfectly on my old forum, but then when I had to reinstall fresh, it doesn't work anymore on the new installation.

First off, no button appears. I viewed source and saw that it was not printing the $post_thanks_button_image variable. It starts off with an a href and ends with an /a with NO IMG SRC in between.

So I tried just copying the code for $post_thanjs_button_image into the $post_thanks_button variable...and the button shows up.

But the AJAX is all messed up for some reason.

Can you PM me for some help?

Same here... very odd.
I have installed and ran this hack on my board since it was intro'd.
I installed a fresh vBB 3.55, installed the hack made the edits and uploaded the product.... no button

Is it possible this is a 3.5.5 issue?
Is it possible to hard code the button into the postbit template instead?

[magic168]

Actually, it is working now. I have no idea why but I:

1) Uninstalled the product.
2) cleared ALL the remaining templates (there seemed to be about three leftover...search for thanks in your templates)
3) Redownloaded the zip install file.
4) Reinstalled (making sure to keep "yes" to overwrite checked)

Now it is working...very odd.

[JohnBee]

Originally Posted by magic168

Actually, it is working now. I have no idea why but I:

1) Uninstalled the product.
2) cleared ALL the remaining templates (there seemed to be about three leftover...search for thanks in your templates)
3) Redownloaded the zip install file.
4) Reinstalled (making sure to keep "yes" to overwrite checked)

Now it is working...very odd.

Wow! I will follow your advice, hope it works!

[Carl Anderson]

I really like this hack but it took up too much space on the pages and my users ended up not liking it...

If it just had a thanked 20 times and user could click on the 20 and then see who thanked him if he wanted.. It took too much space up as some would get 50 or more thx...

Oh well cool hack and well done.

[djwins]

Originally Posted by Carl Anderson

I really like this hack but it took up too much space on the pages and my users ended up not liking it...

If it just had a thanked 20 times and user could click on the 20 and then see who thanked him if he wanted.. It took too much space up as some would get 50 or more thx...

Oh well cool hack and well done.

Yeah, I could see this being an issue on large forums.