"Thank you" Mod

[klumy]

Sometimes user just want to say "thank you" for a special thread, without blowing up a topic. Could it be possible to make a "thank you" mod. If a user want to say thanks, his name will be listed at the top or bottom of the thread, without creating a new reply. so the topic won't get too complex.

[Jack.R.Abbit]

Of course it could be possible... but a little more info as to how you expect it to work and look would be helpful.

-Jack

[klumy]

sure
I thought of following idea:

there should be a button next to "reply" in a topic called "thanks" or something similar.

after someone has used the thanks button his or her name should be displayed as reply directly under the original post. This second post is a system thread and should not be possible to edit for normal users.

in this reply: there could be a text like

Following users has say thanks to this thread:
user1, user2....

But this post should only appear if someone has make use of the thanks button.

optional there could be another special area to display the names.

this was just my 2 cents.

[Grudge]

If were intending to use this I would not recommend making an "empty post"

Instead when someone has made a "thank you" a table could be put directly above the first topic on every page (basically between the top of the top post and the bar with the topic title in - either that or stick it at the bottom of each page - but I would think it needs to be on each page.

Or... maybe it would be better to put in the top of each page something simple like "X people have given thanks for this thread" which would be a link to a "thank you page" which would then list all the people who have given their thanks. This would be more appropriate in a very busy forum.

As far as difficulty in doing it goes I think I would just add another column to the topics table and store all the usernames of the members who have given thanks in that column comma deliminated - and read it in at the start of the page... hope this helps

[klumy]

on following german site I found an example for this

http://www.essential-freebies.de/board/viewtopic.php?t=1004

The names are all on top of the first post.
And the button is also on the top called "Programm als 'gut' bewerten." Means user can rate a program as good.

[[Unknown]]

on following german site I found an example for this

http://www.essential-freebies.de/board/viewtopic.php?t=1004

The names are all on top of the first post.
And the button is also on the top called "Programm als 'gut' bewerten." Means user can rate a program as good.

I am proud to say... I can... READ THAT!  *dances*

Anyhow, my problem with this mod is that people rarely say thank you... but, if you needed it..

You probably could store it as a text field... of ID_MEMBERs.  Then, just..

SELECT mem.realName
FROM {$db_prefix}members AS mem, {$db_prefix}topics AS t
WHERE FIND_IN_SET(mem.ID_MEMBER, t.thankYouMembers)
  AND t.ID_TOPIC = $threadid;

Done .

-[Unknown]

[klumy]

thank you unknown

Is it really that simple. Could someone please create a mod package, so it would be simplier for other users to install this mod