Post Love for phpBB 3.3

Add a simple heart/like button to posts with AJAX toggle. Originally developed by Stanislav Atanasov (anavaro). Now maintained by Avathar.be.

Version

2.2.3

Support

• Support forum

Requirements

• phpBB 3.3.0 or higher
• PHP 8.1 or higher

Features

• Heart button under every post with AJAX toggle (no page reload)
• Outline heart for "not liked", filled heart for "liked"
• Tooltip showing who liked the post, updated live via AJAX
• Like count per topic on the forum topic list (viewforum)
• Like counts (given/received) in user mini profile (configurable)
• Summary of most liked posts by day/week/month/year/ever on index and forum views (configurable)
• Notification when a post is liked (respects UCP notification preferences)
• Permission system (u_postlove) to control who can like posts per user/group
• Permission system (u_postlove_summary) to control who can see the most liked posts summary
• Configurable summary position (above or below the forum list on the index page)
• ACP settings for CSS, mini profile counters, summary display and cache time
• Import tool for migrating data from the Thanks for Posts extension

Languages supported

• Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese (BR), Spanish, Turkish

Changelog

• 2.2.3
  • Fixed heart button displaying as a blue rectangle in pbTech and other styles that override .button styling (#34)
  • Heart icon and like count in post buttons now inherit theme-appropriate colours
• 2.2.2
  • Added avathar.postlove.topic_likes service for cross-extension integration (#33)
  • Other extensions can consume like counts via optional DI without querying the posts_likes table directly
• 2.2.1
  • Added is_enableable() check to enforce PHP 8.1+ and phpBB 3.3+ requirements before enabling (#29)
• 2.2.0
  • UX aligned with Meta Threads conventions (heart icon before count, removed "x" separators)
  • Improved ACP option labels and descriptions across all 10 languages
  • ACP settings grouped into "Like behaviour" and "Most liked posts summary" fieldsets
  • Added u_postlove_summary permission to gate visibility of the most liked posts summary per user group
  • Added configurable summary position on the index page (above or below the forum list)
  • Blocked like permission for guests — anonymous users can no longer like posts (defence-in-depth)
  • Migration to fix notification type service name after namespace rename
• 2.1.0
  • Namespace changed from anavaro/postlove to avathar/postlove
  • Migrated CI from Travis to GitHub Actions (PHP 8.1-8.4, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite)
  • Updated requirements to PHP 8.1+ and phpBB 3.3+
  • PHP 8.2+ compatibility: declared all class properties
  • Fixed N+1 query problem in viewtopic (75+ queries reduced to 3)
  • Added heart count to topic list (viewforum)
  • Added u_postlove permission (per user/group, guests excluded by default)
  • Fixed notification deduplication (swapped item_id/parent_id)
  • Fixed heart icon states (outline=not liked, filled=liked)
  • Fixed AJAX tooltip updates after like/unlike
  • Fixed lovelist URL path traversal (uses append_sid() now)
  • Fixed var_dump() in ACP, define() at file scope, missing return in notification
  • ACP module refactored to use DI container instead of globals
  • All language files fully translated (were partially English)
  • Fixed German notification placeholder bug
  • Fixed Cyrillic character in HTML closing tags
  • Standardized all file headers with proper copyright attribution
  • Updated tests for PHPUnit 9 compatibility

Installation

1. Download the latest release and unzip it.
2. Copy the entire contents from the unzipped folder to /ext/avathar/postlove/.
3. Navigate in the ACP to Customise -> Manage extensions.
4. Find Post Love under "Disabled Extensions" and click Enable.

Configuration

1. Navigate to ACP -> Extensions -> Post Love -> Post Love.
2. Configure display options (mini profile counters, button mode, summary periods).
3. To manage who can like posts, go to ACP -> Permissions -> User/Group permissions and look for Can like posts under Misc.

Testing

See contrib/TESTING.md for details on running the test suite.

Uninstallation

1. Navigate in the ACP to Customise -> Manage extensions.
2. Click the Disable link for Post Love.
3. To permanently uninstall, click Delete Data, then delete the postlove folder from /ext/avathar/.

License

GNU General Public License v2

© 2015 - 2019 Stanislav Atanasov (anavaro) © 2026 - Avathar.be (Andy Vandenberghe)