Show Thread Enhancements - Add New Facebook "Like" button to your threads

Please remember to click Mark as Installed if you use this modification.

Facebook has just launched their latest "Like" button to developers to use on any site. What this does is utilizes the Advertising module to add the "Like" button to the first post of each thread. Please see screenshots to get an idea.

In your Admin CP go to Advertising > New Ad > Choose "Thread" from the dropdown and then select the first thread box. Give it a title (I called mine FB Like) leave "First Post Content" at default and paste in this code:

<!-- Facebook Like -->
<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.YOURSITE.com/{vb:link thread, {vb:raw thread}, {vb:raw pageinfo_post}}#post{vb:raw post.postid}&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:px"></iframe>
<!-- / Facebook Like -->

Be sure to change YOURSITE.com to your URL including your forum.

The VBSEO team has instructions on how to make this work for their product here http://www.vbseo.com/f2/facebook-lik...95/#post265997

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Option 2 (different from above, do not use together) will show at top, see screenshot #3

In Postbit (or legacy) find:

{vb:raw ad_location.thread_first_post_content}

Add this after:

<vb:if condition="(THIS_SCRIPT == showthread) AND ($post[postcount] == '1')"
<!-- Facebook Like -->
<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.YOURSITE.com/{vb:link thread, {vb:raw thread}}&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;font=tahoma&amp;colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:75px"></iframe>
<!-- / Facebook Like -->
</vb:if>

For additional information on this button and different parameters please visit http://developers.facebook.com/docs/...e/plugins/like

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For those who have asked, here is the modification adds both the "Like" button and comments to a users profile https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=239424

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Additional locations to place this code:

For CMS, in vbcms_content_article_page add the code below this:

{vb:raw comment_block}

For pictures, in template album_pictureview add the code below this:

{vb:raw picturecomment_commentarea}

For Blog, in template blog_show_entry add at the very top.

[Michlerish]

Uninstalled because a lot of users access the forum from their workplace, where facebook is blocked.

[hiker]

Originally Posted by Michlerish

Uninstalled because a lot of users access the forum from their workplace, where facebook is blocked.

This is one of the reasons I don't want it on every thread, because of the ugly "blocked" box, but it is working wonderfully on the desired Thread Prefixes, I'd love to limit it to just those type of threads.

[steveyos666]

It's not showing up on my wall.

[michelle86]

Originally Posted by Red Spider

im struggling to get this working correctly as per the screenshots in OP.

When i click "like" it on my fb newsfeed it just says "xxx likes xxx forum"... does NOT say "xxx likes xxx on xxx forum" as per the screenshot. any help?

Originally Posted by ericgtr

That usually means something isn't right with your forum path, I would double check it.

For whatever reason, it has started showing up on everyone's facebook walls. But now I have the same issue Red Spider was having.

For my forum path I have http://members.lovingfromadistance.com/forum.php

Am I missing anything? Did I do anything wrong?

[War.Frog]

It looks like this will be redundant on version 4.04, but I've enjoyed using it for the interim. Thank you for a great mod.

[Largo .//npc]

Doesn't seem to keep the people who have liked it after a few minutes.

[hiker]

Any help with adding this Like button to only threads with certain prefixes?

[rmd708]

For those trying to figure this out, use this code for the CMS articles section. What is shown in the first post wont work.

<!-- Facebook Like -->
<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href={vb:raw page_url}&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;font=tahoma&amp;colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:visible; width:450px; height:25px;"></iframe>
<!-- / Facebook Like -->

[ChopSuey]

Can't you just change the YOURSITE text to {vb:raw vb.options url} ?? or whatever the code is. it will wol

[session-one]

it'd be cool if you could see who liked the thread