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.

[Bram H]

Works great on the forum but can't get it to work on the CMS

[wefictionjoe]

the number of likes a thread gets is going to dictate the next thread started on my site. BUT, i do not want to force people to connect to facebook to "like" something. So:

Is there any way to allow non facebook connected member to also "like" something? Thanks!

[wefictionjoe]

Originally Posted by Largo .//npc

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

hmmm, same here

[PSC001]

Anyone know how to add this to appear above the Quick Reply box? I know the template is in Showthread, but I don't where to drop in the code to make it work. I am using 4.0.2 PL4.

Thanks.

[PSC001]

Originally Posted by PSC001

Anyone know how to add this to appear above the Quick Reply box? I know the template is in Showthread, but I don't where to drop in the code to make it work. I am using 4.0.2 PL4.

Thanks.

Anyone?

[wefictionjoe]

Originally Posted by PSC001

Anyone?

good question

[RichieBoy67]

This is great thanks!! I had just installed something just like this in one of my directories and I was just going to do this myself! Lucky I checked first I guess.

[olivercookson]

Is there a way to get this working on the articles?

[TNERatedEdge]

This has to work with facebook? What If I dont wanyt my facebook having links to these posts/ Can't it just be for the forum?

[adreen]

some problems though:

1. only users with facebook can 'Like'
2. like only appears on the first post of the thread
3. after i click the link in facebook after it was integrated, it came out like this

No Topik specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator

i checked the links, if i remove a character in this case '=', it'd work.
or else can't.

a lot of things you have to fix.
meanwhile i have to uninstall the mod.