Miscellaneous Hacks - More Share Options TNG by BOP5 (Facebook, Twitter, Google +1, AddThis) Share Buttons

Brought to you by BirdOPrey5
www.Qapla.com

Current Version: 3.2

More Share Options The Next Generation (v 3.0) is a complete rewrite of my "More Share Options" mod. If you are looking for the old version I am keeping it attached (More Share Options for VB4 by BOP5v261.zip) but it will no longer be updated or supported.

The purpose of the mod is to add additional share "buttons" (Besides Facebook Like) to vBulletin.

Demo: Practically every page of Qapla.com has the "Gold" version enabled.

There is GOLD Version with additional features available at:
http://www.qapla.com/mods/showthread...4-by-BOP5-GOLD

The FREE Version allows sharing to the following sites:

• Facebook (Like OR Recommend with Send Button Option, and with old style "Share" option, Dark Option, Show Faces Option)
• Twitter (Specify "Via" Username, Related Account, default hash tags, and language- With or without counts)
• Google +1 (With or without count, option to use built in Facebook language or specify custom language)
• Add This (Option to input publisher ID for analytics tracking, enable/disable printing, disable duplicate sites option)

The FREE Version also has the following Style Vars for basic styling:

• Height of Share Bar (in Pixels)
• Padding
• Margins

The GOLD Version has all of the above PLUS the following additional share options:

• Pinterest (With or without count, option to specify pinned image, better Pin It sharing button in Beta available for testing)
• Digg (With count or icon only)
• Linked In (With or without count)
• StumbleUpon (Several options with/without counts)
• Reddit (Several options with/without "points")
• Custom Buttons (Add as many additional custom buttons as you want!)

The GOLD Version also has additional Style Vars for complete control of Share Bar Styling:

• Background
• Border

(Both FREE and GOLD can be completely customized by CSS as well if you prefer not to use Style Vars.)

Some of the major differences between More Share Options TNG and the Original Version:

• Share Buttons now show on ALL pages, including pages by 3rd party applications like Arcades and Media Galleries.
• Twitter Count Now WORKS
• Table-less design (All formatting done via CSS/Style Vars)
• Additional built-in Facebook and Twitter options
• New options to disable by Usergroup and/or THIS_SCRIPT value (as well as by Forum and by Style)
• Pinterest Now Integrated (Gold version only)

As with the prior version, fast loading Asynchronous JavaScript is used everywhere possible.

IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTICE!

If you are "upgrading" from an old version (any version less than 3.0) be aware this version (TNG) has been coded as a completely new and separate mod. It will NOT upgrade an old version.

I suggest if you run an old version of "More Share Options" you disable it via Product Manager in Admin CP.

Install and configure this new mod and make sure it works and you like it.

If you do like it then you can uninstall the old mod from Product Manager.

IMPORTANT - Some users have reported the new mod will not run until the old mod is uninstalled. If you have installed 3.0 and it is not running, please try uninstalling the old mod first.

VBSEO Compatibility:

UPDATE: It has been reported working with VBSEO!

Basically I have no idea how compatible this may be with VBSEO as I don't have access to a VBSEO enabled forum. If you use VBSEO be sure it works as designed (you can share pages.)

Test share 3 pages: The Forum Home, a Thread (showthread), and a Forum (forumdisplay) - if all 3 shares work I am confident the mod will work completely for you. I suggest you use Twitter or Facebook for your testing.

If you do run into VBSEO issues please post here and I will do my best to fix.

General Compatibility:
This has been tested as far back a VB 4.0.8 and as recent as VB 4.2.0. It is expected to work on all VB 4.x.x versions however if you have a very old version of VB please try the FREE version before purchasing the Gold to ensure compatibility. This is not compatible with VB 3.x.

As of version 3.2.0 there is a recommended manual file edit for those running VB 4.1.9 or below.

Admin CP Full Screen Shot: http://www.qapla.com/mods/ss/msotng_admincp_free.jpg

VB 3.8 Version Here.

Please Mark as Installed if you use this.
Donations always appreciated. :up:

To be clear the New (TNG) Version is: More Share Options TNG FREE (v 3.2) by BOP5.zip

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[S3Ponline]

BOP, awesome mod. I’m just wondering if we can reorder them. I would like to put google plus first

[Iain M]

Cheers BOP!

How about an option to show it on FORUMDISPLAY?

Also, anyone else getting "The page at http://xn--ivga/ could not be reached." when clicking the fb send button?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by S3Ponline

Love this mod however for some reason on my static style the Like button goes WAY FAR OUT LEFT

http://www.personalitynation.com/ana...-overview.html

EDIT: I went with it in it?s default location. It looks great!

However, there?s an issue with it on Chrome and Firefox for fixed styles.

Thanks!

This is what I see from your link in Chrome, FF, and IE:


That is the expected look. The Facebook button is over to the left because it needs to leave room for the count box once you start getting likes. This is a limitation from facebook, they do not allow the button to by dynamically resized based on count- it always takes the max width whether it needs it or not.

Originally Posted by ExcelFox

BOP, thanks a lot for this mod. I think this is going to be a great add-on. Keep up the excellent work....

Thank You

Originally Posted by ExcelFox

Please let us know when you could upgrade it for 4.1.5 Beta

You should definitely try it for yourself. 1 report of 1 problem from 1 person doesn't mean it doesn't work on 4.1.5 beta- there is no way of knowing what might be causing his or her issue.

Originally Posted by Mukashi

Getting a similar error to that reported above, on 4.1.3

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ''' (ASCII=39) state=1 in /home/themozz/public_html/bmgf/includes/class_core.php(4465) : eval()'d code on line 96

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/themozz/public_html/bmgf/includes/class_core.php(4465) : eval()'d code on line 97

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ''' (ASCII=39) state=1 in /home/themozz/public_html/bmgf/includes/class_core.php(4465) : eval()'d code on line 96

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/themozz/public_html/bmgf/includes/class_core.php(4465) : eval()'d code on line 97

This makes it even less likely 4.1.5 is the problem. Can you please give me a link to your forum?

Originally Posted by S3Ponline

BOP, awesome mod. I?m just wondering if we can reorder them. I would like to put google plus first

You can edit the template more_share_options and move the Google Code above the Facebook Code. However I don't recommend this- I spent A LOT of time A LOT making custom spacing to make these buttons look as good as possible depending which ones were enabled and which aren't- and moving them around will break these customizations.

Give me a little bit, I'll release a "virgin" template with no spacing customization and you can edit that more easily. Once you have it setup how you want it will be easy to make a couple of spacing adjustments unique to your site.

Originally Posted by Iain M

Cheers BOP!

How about an option to show it on FORUMDISPLAY?

Also, anyone else getting "The page at http://xn--ivga/ could not be reached." when clicking the fb send button?

I will put FORUMDISPLAY on the list as a future possible share location. Is the URL http://xn--ivga/ related to your site somehow? Please give me a link to a thread on your site.

Do you have the Facebook App ID entered in Facebook Options?

[Iain M]

Thanks. Nope that URL isn't anything to do with my site, I even searched the database, and templates with no results.

I have my Facebook App ID entered into the Facebook Options, and my Facebook Connect is working fine, so it's an odd one =/

[BirdOPrey5]

For anyone/everyone getting the invalid character errors please do this:

Go to your Admin CP -> Maintenance -> View PHP Info

Then paste here your PHP Version AND copy and paste the text in the "Configure Command" box- Something like:

PHP Version 5.2.14

'./configure' '--disable-pdo' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--enable-libxml' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-sockets' '--prefix=/usr/local' '--with-curl=/opt/curlssl/' '--with-curlwrappers' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--with-gd' '--with-imap=/opt/php_with_imap_client/' '--with-imap-ssl=/usr' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-kerberos' '--with-libdir=lib64' '--with-libxml-dir=/opt/xml2/' '--with-mcrypt=/opt/libmcrypt/' '--with-mysql=/usr' '--with-mysql-sock=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' '--with-mysqli=/usr/bin/mysql_config' '--with-openssl=/usr' '--with-openssl-dir=/usr' '--with-pcre-regex=/opt/pcre' '--with-pic' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-ttf' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr' '--with-zlib' '--with-zlib-dir=/usr' '--with-litespeed'

This is what your "View PHP Info" will look like:

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Iain M

Thanks. Nope that URL isn't anything to do with my site, I even searched the database, and templates with no results.

I have my Facebook App ID entered into the Facebook Options, and my Facebook Connect is working fine, so it's an odd one =/

Link to your site?

[Iain M]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Link to your site?

sent in PM

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by BaanFarsang

Errors on vbulletin suite 4.1.5 Beta 1

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ''' (ASCII=39) state=1 in /home/baanfars/domains/baanfarsang.com/public_html/includes/class_core.php(4490) : eval()'d code on line 96

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/baanfars/domains/baanfarsang.com/public_html/includes/class_core.php(4490) : eval()'d code on line 97

Originally Posted by Mukashi

Getting a similar error to that reported above, on 4.1.3

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ''' (ASCII=39) state=1 in /home/themozz/public_html/bmgf/includes/class_core.php(4465) : eval()'d code on line 96

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/themozz/public_html/bmgf/includes/class_core.php(4465) : eval()'d code on line 97

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ''' (ASCII=39) state=1 in /home/themozz/public_html/bmgf/includes/class_core.php(4465) : eval()'d code on line 96

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/themozz/public_html/bmgf/includes/class_core.php(4465) : eval()'d code on line 97

Anyone getting this error please do the following:

In Admin CP -> Plugin Manager:
Find the plugin: Add Share Options to Templates and disable it.

Please let me know if you still get the error- My guess is the errors go away.

You can safely disable this plugin and will only lose functionality on forumhome, albums, and pictures. IF this works I can give instructions on how to manually edit those templates. (Just paste in 1 line)

If you still get the error please also check your FORUMHOME share option- make sure it's NOT "What's Going On" box- this is the only other code I can conceive would be causing the error.

Please let me know if either of the above help.:up:

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Iain M

Cheers BOP!

How about an option to show it on FORUMDISPLAY?

Also, anyone else getting "The page at http://xn--ivga/ could not be reached." when clicking the fb send button?

I see this is a bug present when people have turned off "Force Standard URL" option.

I will fix it in the next update.

For now if you have turned off "Force Standard URL" and want to use the Send button then make the following manual template edit:

Edit the template: more_share_options

Find the line:

<fb:send href=?{vb:raw bophref}? font=?tahoma" colorscheme="{vb:raw boplord}"></fb:send>

And replace it with:

<fb:send  font=?tahoma" colorscheme="{vb:raw boplord}"></fb:send>

[BaanFarsang]

Disable of Add Share Options to Templates and still warning too.