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.

[ericgtr]

Originally Posted by Alien

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

For reference, here is the code for it to only "show" in selected forums:

<vb:if condition="in_array($forum['forumid'], array(1,2,3))">Show this to forum 1, 2 and 3</vb:if>

[hiker]

Originally Posted by bogley

Nice mod. Will install it soon.

Nevermind, couldn't wait. Had to install it now.

Working perfectly!

[SuperGLS]

Very cool! I've done in like it post 29 and edited it so that the height=30 instead of 75 and it looks really good.

Would you put that forum conditional right underneath the code from post 29?

[SuperGLS]

Here's a screenshot.

[neil.]

Any luck with vbseo, none work for me:

I get errors like:

 htp://forum.kitecrowd.com/%7Bvb:link%20thread,%20%7Bvb:raw%20thread%7D%7D could not be reached.

with http obv.

[ericgtr]

Originally Posted by neil.

Any luck with vbseo, none work for me:

I get errors like:

 htp://forum.kitecrowd.com/%7Bvb:link%20thread,%20%7Bvb:raw%20thread%7D%7D could not be reached.

with http obv.

Have you tried the code posted up in the second post of this thread?

[TimberFloorAu]

Works a treat thanks Eric

[TimberFloorAu]

Shouldnt :

<vb:if condition="(THIS_SCRIPT == showthread) AND ($post[postcount] == '1')"

be

<vb:if condition="(THIS_SCRIPT == showthread) AND ($post[postcount] == '1')">

[Da-Vinci]

Originally Posted by ericgtr

For reference, here is the code for it to only "show" in selected forums:

<vb:if condition="in_array($forum['forumid'], array(1,2,3))">Show this to forum 1, 2 and 3</vb:if>

Thank you Eric, but as for the conditional, is there not a way to just exclude certain forums rather than only show to certain forum as I have many many forums and sub forums that I would like to display the Like button on and only say 4 forums and 7 subforums I would like to exclude lol. I am just finding my way around conditional at the moment and will try to refer to the article that details the conditional to work this one out on my own, but any help is greatly appreciated.

Originally Posted by TimberFloorAu

Shouldnt :

<vb:if condition="(THIS_SCRIPT == showthread) AND ($post[postcount] == '1')"

be

<vb:if condition="(THIS_SCRIPT == showthread) AND ($post[postcount] == '1')">

I don't want to look stupid here but are those 2 conditionals not identical?

[TimberFloorAu]

No he forgot closing bracket ">"