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

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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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[danswano]

Like is the same as Recommend and yes it works in threads but not in forumhome.

[BirdOPrey5]

Link to your forum??? This is a share mod after all, you'd think I wouldn't have to pull teeth to get people to share their forums.

[BirdOPrey5]

I have released Version 2.23. This fixed the bug where the Facebook Send button wouldn't work on some pages if the "Force Standard URL" option was disabled.

Added new option to turn off automatic template edits.
Added instructions for manual template edits.

Added option to disable the mod in specific styles.

Added "Virgin Template" to the zip file for people who want to re-order the layout of the share buttons.

Still working on those getting "invalid character" errors. Please follow instructions in posts 95 & 98 if you are still getting those errors. Please give me as much info as possible - your forum version, link to your forum, php version, etc...

[remekk]

Hi,
On iPad there is no google +1 icon

Remek

[StonePilot]

Works great thus far! Nice work.

I'll read through the docs and the rest of this thea to see if anyone has mentioned this, but I'd like to change the order that the icons appear.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by remekk

Hi,
On iPad there is no google +1 icon

Remek

Do you ever see a Google +1 on iPad? At any other site?

Originally Posted by StonePilot

Works great thus far! Nice work.

I'll read through the docs and the rest of this thea to see if anyone has mentioned this, but I'd like to change the order that the icons appear.

Open the virgin template text file that was in the zip and follow the instructions.

[Mukashi]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Thanks.

I see your Facebook Like button is on the right but I thought they moved it to the left in 4.1.2. Did you do something to move it to the right or is that the default location in 4.1.3?

I don't believe we've done anything to change its location, so I'm assuming that's its default location.

Using v22, I made the change from your post earlier, and it removed 2 of the errors, but two of the errors remained.

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

Also, one of my staff noticed that member profiles would not load when the mod was active.

Upgraded to v223, and found that we got a slightly different error. Disabled the add share options to templates plugin, and disabled everything in the mod other than turning it off, and still had the following error.

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 108

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in /home/themozz/public_html/bmgf/includes/class_core.php(4465) : eval()'d code on line 108

I'm guessing that these errors may have something to do with our vBSEO settings? That's about the only thing which seems to make sense.
Probably should mention also, we do have an edited class_core.php, as per Paul M's changes here.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Mukashi

I don't believe we've done anything to change its location, so I'm assuming that's its default location.

Using v22, I made the change from your post earlier, and it removed 2 of the errors, but two of the errors remained.

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

Also, one of my staff noticed that member profiles would not load when the mod was active.

Upgraded to v223, and found that we got a slightly different error. Disabled the add share options to templates plugin, and disabled everything in the mod other than turning it off, and still had the following error.

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 108

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in /home/themozz/public_html/bmgf/includes/class_core.php(4465) : eval()'d code on line 108

I'm guessing that these errors may have something to do with our vBSEO settings? That's about the only thing which seems to make sense.
Probably should mention also, we do have an edited class_core.php, as per Paul M's changes here.

Thanks for the info, I'm not 100% sure what the issue yet, althogh VBSEO seems like a good scape-goat.

I actually just noticed I left some debug code in causing all parts of the mod to be active at all times. I just fixed this and released version 2.25. Please try it when you get a chance- you will probably still get the error but maybe you can tell me if it's specific to 1 page this time? (Like just formhome, just theeads, just albums, just member profiles, etc...) or if you still get them on all pages.

Thanks.

I suggest everyone upgrade to 2.25 as it should have better performance with the debug code removed.

[yahooooh]

could you support groups and groups disscusions

[ijob]

Hi,

I can see it on my forum home but not in my threads anywhere.....