Add New Facebook "Like" Button to Threads and OpenGraph to Headinclude Automatically
 

From The Open Graph Protocol :
This modification will add these tags to all pages, and the <og:title> attribute to your SHOWTHREAD pages (for the moment.. additional Pages to be added soon), along with the Facebook 'Like Button' under the Thread Title (as we are supposed to put the Like button next to the thing the person is Liking).

Install Instructions:
AdminCP - Plugins & Products - Manage Products - [Add/Import Product] , browse to the location of the .xml file you downloaded from this thread, Import it.
Template Modifications
In SHOWTHREAD, find:
Replace with:
Find:
Add under:
Wherever you want to add the Like Button, add
Configuration Instructions
AdminCP - Settings - Options - Opengraph/Facebook Integration
Global On/Off - Set to Yes to turn the system on.
FB - Page Admins - A comma-separated list of the Facebook IDs of the Admins of your pages on Facebook.
FB - App ID - The application ID of your Facebook Application.
OG - Site Name - A short, human-readable name for your site that will appear in the Like on the User's Facebook Activity Stream.

It is important to fill in these, as they are used by FB to fill in some of the information, and allows your pages (Showthread at the moment) to be referenced in the Open Graph.

What's Next?
This is an early beta release to gauge the interest in Open Graph/Facebook type stuff.
I intend to add the tags to other pages, and implement some of the other Facebook Social Plugins. These will all be On/Off configurable. Some can be seen in action at:

View Profile: kall - New Zealand Boards - Like for Member Profiles
http://www.nzboards.com/the-lounge/r...on-sale-90544/ - Activity and Recommendation Streams in first and last post.

(4.0.3 Version here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=242525)

Ahh.

Issues. I need to re-upload the .xml, please hang 5.

*edit* Done.

Thanks mate....gonna give it a whirl!!

Thank you man!
I'll ditch what I currently have and set this one up

/me clicks install

I do not see

Configuration Instructions
AdminCP - Settings - Options - Opengraph/Facebook Integration

Dammit. That's what I was supposed to get in the edit of the xml. Do you see them in the xml?

Bah. Must have uploaded the wrong one. Try now. :)

yup, I see the options now :)
Just putting the little one to bed, will finish the install in 20 mins, thanks again for releasing a 3.8 version :up:

one question.. I'm trying to place this in the postbit, can I enter this into the postbit template?

the templates are not cached. can you change your code?

Well, I was going to upgrade it so it worked on all pages, but ok.

You should be able to, but that's not Best Practice.. you want people to Like the Thread, not the post.

Looks like another xml has been uploaded, there are no admincp options in it either.

Are you sure? They appeared when I uploaded the new XML.

Yeah, I have nothing and when I view the xml there's nothing about the settings. Also when I downloaded I was the first to download the file so I'm thinking there was another new one added.

I think there was to, have you downloaded it in the last day? I think Kall updated it :)

I did about 10 minutes before my first post.

And this is why Kall hates the 3.8 Product Creation method. Settings don't pull unless you are in Debug mode? What's up with that? :(

The settings should be back in the xml, my apologies.

This looks very interesting. Subscribing to watch thread. :)

Great stuff!

Is it possible to release a vbSEO version for 3.8.4? Right now the box is just showing up with blank white space inside.

That's weird.. this mod was developed on a 3.8 forum running vBSEO.

Could you maybe provide a link to a page where it's like that, or the source code of the area?

could you check out my question about adding this in the postbit template


and how do we get our ID's
FB - Page Admins - A comma-separated list of the Facebook IDs of the Admins of your pages on Facebook.
my account is facebook.com/username/

Sorry dude, that super important request to cache two templates took precedence. :(

When you say postbit, do you mean every post, or are you going to conditional it to only appear in the first one (the reason it is in navbar is because the entire purpose of the Like button under current functionality is to Like the *page* that one is visiting. Putting it in a single post will result in multiple Like URLs for the resource (as that post can be visited via showpost.php or showthread.php among others), and putting it in every post won't work at all on showthread.php)?

The ID is (as it should mention in the AdminCP bit) found by mousingover your avatar (usually, works for me anyway), or going into your Albums and looking for the common string of numbers that appears on each.

I understand, no rush on my part :)
I have the first post conditioned out in the postibit template (see example)
This version seems to take a while to load, I may just revert back and use the small "like" button/count.

thx, found my ID

Re it being slow: Conversation here seems to indicate using the FBML makes it faster than the iframe version: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/...Talk:Fb:iframe

It should be possible to change the button to use the iframe though, keeping all the opengraph stuff.

In ogfb_like_showthread, delete everything and replace with this:

Obviously though, by doing this we lose the app_id detail. Let me know how it works for you.

To make the button display on other templates

Change the hook that the OpenGraph/Facebook Integration - SHOWTHREAD variables plugin executes on to an applicable hook.

(postbit - postbit_display_complete. or chuck it in global_start or something that's called on every page.)

Thanks, checking it out now

still not working, I'll play around with this tonight

thx for the help Kall

How's it not working man? Gimme a URL.

There is the issue of 'vBSEO needs to use slightly different code' and 'Brandon made me change my plugins while I had the flu' clouding the waters somewhat. :)

aww, sorry man :o
hope you get feeling better
I posted a link a few post up

I'll play with it again, but I had tried placing the $ogfb_like_showthread in my postbit template along with the digg, twitter and stumble one
and tried changing the hook location to the 2 you suggested and nothing showed.
I moved $ogfb_like_showthread back in the showthread template, and it shows.

I just about have it how I want it, thanks for the help :)

Hope this helps :)

http://www.avrilbandaids.com/forums/...ound-site.html

You can see the white box above the reply button.

Ahh. One question - are you currently running YAFB or the default 4.0.3 Facebook Connect?

They're not compatible :( You would need to use the iframe code rather than the FBML version.

This stopped working when I tried to isntall the vb nexius mod :(
I've removed both, re-added this mod and nothing is showing in the postbit.
I'll see if I can look deeper, maybe something from the nexius mad is stalling things..
I'm bummed, it was looking great too :D

Are you still using some form of Connect?

well I wasn't, your mod was working great and then I tried adding the nexius mod that IB_username (I don't remember his name, but it's the IB guy that's posted a few mods) and your mod stopped working. So I removed the nexius mod, removed all files and your mod still doesn't work :(
I've since removed the opengraph mod, and tried adding it back late last night.. still not working :(
I'm guessing there is something leftover from the nexius mod

your mod doesn't even show ATM if I place it in the showthread template like designed.

I tried your mod and it's working for me, thanks a lot. However it is showing a white rectangle around the button and my forum is dark. Is there any chance to adapt the look and colors etc. of the rectangle? Thanks a lot!

Sure is.

In template ogfb_like_showthread, change the following div properties to suit. :)

<div style="padding: 5px; border: 1px solid #3F6F81; background: #ffffff; font-size: 10px; width: 300px;">

Awesome, thanks for the quick reply!

I've downloaded this, tried it, got it working ok and experimented with moving the like button around, however the place I'd like it ideally is one of these two positions in the attached pics (blue cross marked) the first one is my preference... any ideas at all please?

You could try adding $ogfb_like_showthread before the following in SHOWTHREAD:

No, that doesnt work... arrrghh I can get it everywhere except where I want it lol

Is there any chance to exclude the button from private forums?