Thanks

Plugin for CMF Cotonti that let users thank each other.

Authors:

• Vladimir Sibirov (Trustmaster)
• Alexey Kalnov (Alex300)

GitHub: https://github.com/Cotonti-Extensions/thanks

#1. Features

• Just a simple "Thank you!" button, no negative karmas and karma wars, no offense.
• Users can thank each other for pages and forum posts.
• Tags to output thanks count for a user. A page listing all thanks received by a user.
• The number of thanks per user and per day are limited.

#2. Installation

1. Requires Cotonti version 0.9.26 beta or higher
2. Download and unpack the plugin to plugins/thanks.
3. Install and configure the plugin in Administration panel.
4. Add the necessary tags to your page.tpl, forums.posts.tpl, users.details.tpl and other templates, see example below.

Example tags in page.tpl:

<!-- Adds a thank you button -->
{PHP|thanks_itemAddThankWidget('page', {PAGE_ID})}

<!-- Adds a widget with a list of those who thanked for the page -->
{PHP|thanks_itemWhoThankedWidget('page', {PAGE_ID})}

Example tags in forums.posts.tpl:

<!-- Number of thanks to the user -->
{PHP|thanks_userCountWidget({FORUMS_POSTS_ROW_USER_ID}, {FORUMS_POSTS_ROW_USER_THANKS})}

<!-- Thank you button -->
{PHP|thanks_itemAddThankWidget('forumPost', {FORUMS_POSTS_ROW_ID})}

<!-- Widget with a list of those who thanked for the post --> 
{PHP|thanks_itemWhoThankedWidget('forumPost', {FORUMS_POSTS_ROW_ID})}

Example tags in comments.tpl:

<!-- Number of thanks to the user -->
{PHP|thanks_userCountWidget({COMMENTS_ROW_AUTHOR_ID}, {COMMENTS_ROW_AUTHOR_THANKS})}

<!-- Thank you button -->
{PHP|thanks_itemAddThankWidget('comment', {COMMENTS_ROW_ID})}

<!-- Widget with a list of those who thanked for the comment --> 
{PHP|thanks_itemWhoThankedWidget('comment', {COMMENTS_ROW_ID})}

Example tags in users.details.tpl:

<tr>
	<td>{PHP.L.thanks_thanked}:</td>

    <td><a href="{USERS_DETAILS_THANKS_URL}" title="{PHP.L.thanks_for_user}">{USERS_DETAILS_THANKS_TIMES}</a></td>
</tr>

You can also use {*THANKS}, {*THANKS_URL} and {*THANKS_TIMES} tags wherever all user-specific tags are available (* stands for a tag prefix specific to that area or block).