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.

[pjdaley]

Very cool little add-on, but will need to re-work it to work with vbSEO

installed+rating good job

[dirtycrow]

i get an error =

The page at http://%5BB%5Dhttp//forums.orderofth...pe-cod-edition could not be reached.

[dirtycrow]

Originally Posted by dirtycrow

i get an error =

nvm, i think i got it to work.

[dirtycrow]

Originally Posted by pjdaley

Very cool little add-on, but will need to re-work it to work with vbSEO

installed+rating good job

i agree 100 percent. with out the thread title of what you are liking its not descriptive enough to get people to visit.

[ericgtr]

Originally Posted by wacnstac

Can this also be used with 3.8.X?

As it stands it will not work with 3.8 because the variable names have changed. I do not have a 3.x board to test on anymore.

[ericgtr]

Originally Posted by pjdaley

Very cool little add-on, but will need to re-work it to work with vbSEO

installed+rating good job

Originally Posted by dirtycrow

i agree 100 percent. with out the thread title of what you are liking its not descriptive enough to get people to visit.

Understood, let's see if we can get this working with VBSEO by presenting this question to them, we need to convert this to VBSEO:

{vb:link thread, {vb:raw thread}, {vb:raw pageinfo_post}}#post{vb:raw post.postid}

Please see if you can get one of their people to answer this and we can then add a VBSEO version of this mod here.

[wacnstac]

If someone could supply the variable names to make this work on 3.8.X I'd really appreciate it.

[wacnstac]

Even taking the stock "share" IFRAME from facebook, is giving me an error right now. Perhaps their system is overloaded?

[Da-Vinci]

Using the code from the 2nd post mine looks like this with VBSEO installed. and I think it's a pretty cool mod.

Obviously I'm using Adsense so it makes more sence to have the like button beneath the title, but I've found no problems with VBSEO.



One question, I have though is there a conditional, I can use to exclude certain forums?

[ericgtr]

Originally Posted by wacnstac

Even taking the stock "share" IFRAME from facebook, is giving me an error right now. Perhaps their system is overloaded?

If it has the red "error" upon clicking then it most likely means the URL path isn't setup correctly. I would double check it.