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.

[kall]

Originally Posted by ericgtr

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.

I've taken the question to the devs.. it's odd. The link shows as the standard vB variable url inside the fb stuff, whether you use iframe or the js version.

Obviously the error is there to prevent people from having what they like link back to the wrong thing, but it's a tad annoying that it doesn't work with the way vbseo does it.

Does it work with the vB4 SEO options?

[ericgtr]

Originally Posted by kall

I've taken the question to the devs.. it's odd. The link shows as the standard vB variable url inside the fb stuff, whether you use iframe or the js version.

Obviously the error is there to prevent people from having what they like link back to the wrong thing, but it's a tad annoying that it doesn't work with the way vbseo does it.

Does it work with the vB4 SEO options?

I'm afraid I don't have vbseo to test it on so I can't say. But yeah, like you say it checks the URL before it allows it which is good and bad I guess depending on how you look at it. The benefit to me for iframe is that it won't affect the board if it's slow for any reason.

[giorgino]

Originally Posted by 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?

Great effect! How you have done? Can you give me the code please?

[Da-Vinci]

Yes it's in the 2nd post of this thread.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....32&postcount=2

Maybe the VBSEO problem is to do with the type of url rewrite you use, I use 002 - Hierarchic directory type URLs with content relevant threads (used at www.vBSEO.com) for my forumURL's, but obviously if your using a different type of URL rewrite it's not something you want to change.

Also not wanting to be a pest but can anybody answear this?

Is there a conditional, I can use to exclude certain forums?

The reason being we have a few private forums which I would prefer not to be displayed on Facebook, and although I can tell the members who have access to said forums not to click the Like button in the said sections, you will always get one or two, who will.

[hiker]

Nice mod. Will install it soon. I was waiting for this since the news of Facebook discontinuing the Facebook Connect soon.

[Alien]

On multi-page threads, it will put up the like text/icons at the top of every page.

Less than ideal, I'd like to see it only on page 1/post 1 of a thread...

Originally Posted by saviola8x

Fix with me ! Demo : http://s2facebook.com/forum/showthread.php?854

Open Postbit temp search

{vb:raw ad_location.thread_first_post_content}

Add below :

<!-- Facebook Like -->
<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://DOMAIN.com/forum/{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 -->

Done.

[giorgino]

Originally Posted by Da-Vinci

Yes it's in the 2nd post of this thread.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....32&postcount=2

Maybe the VBSEO problem is to do with the type of url rewrite you use, I use 002 - Hierarchic directory type URLs with content relevant threads (used at www.vBSEO.com) for my forumURL's, but obviously if your using a different type of URL rewrite it's not something you want to change.

Also not wanting to be a pest but can anybody answear this?

Is there a conditional, I can use to exclude certain forums?

The reason being we have a few private forums which I would prefer not to be displayed on Facebook, and although I can tell the members who have access to said forums not to click the Like button in the said sections, you will always get one or two, who will.

Great work perfectly with vBSeo (with 002 rules like you). Thank you very much!

[Da-Vinci]

Cool glad it's worked for you, but I take no credit for any of the work, I just used what was available to me.

[ericgtr]

Originally Posted by Alien

On multi-page threads, it will put up the like text/icons at the top of every page.

Less than ideal, I'd like to see it only on page 1/post 1 of a thread...

Here's the way around that:

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>

This will only show on the first post no matter how many pages there are.

[Alien]

Excellent, eric. Thank you SO much. I'll just add an additional conditional to exclude some forums and we should be all set!