Show Thread Enhancements - Digg Display & Digg Count

Get your users to Digg more threads with this simple modification. It's more visible and will promote more Diggs.

What this does differently from the stock Bookmarks is put the Digg button on top of the post in a nice little box and displays how many diggs the post has gotten. This uses javascript provided by Digg. The background color can also be defined.

Update: Fixed the javascript so it will now show the thread title if it has special characters in it.

In SHOWTHREAD find:

<td class="vbmenu_control" id="threadtools" nowrap="nowrap">

Add this just above: (be sure to add your forum URL so it Digg can grab the title, you may optionally remove that line if you have an SEO mod installed but the title will have to be submitted manually)

<!-- Digg -->
<td class="vbmenu_control" id="digg" nowrap="nowrap">
<script type="text/javascript">
digg_url = 'SITE URL/showthread.php?t=$thread[threadid]';
digg_title = "$threadinfo[title]";
digg_skin = 'compact';
digg_window = 'new';
</script>
<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</td>
<!-- / Digg -->

Please click install if you use this.

[ericgtr]

Originally Posted by Jay...

is there anyway to make the background transparent or use a gradient as the bar where my digg button is has a gradient image in the background

Unfortunately not, that's one of the disadvantages and I have also not been able to find a way to change the text color.

[993ti]

Also works with 3.6.8

[CoryHawk]

Greetings..

Was wondering 2 things.. First.. is this possible.. and second.. can someone help me with the variables..


I have installed a snippet of code on my vbseo 1.0 template for vb 3.7beta3

The code is the following..

<!-- Digg -->
<td class="vbmenu_control" id="digg" nowrap="nowrap">
<script type="text/javascript">
digg_url = 'http://forums.prisonofficer.org/showthread.php?t=$thread[threadid]';
digg_title = "$threadinfo[title]";
digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';
digg_skin = 'compact';
digg_window = 'new';
</script>
<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</td>
<!-- / Digg -->

In the digg_url code.. it works be uses the old VB urls and not the seo-friendly vbSEO urls.. I was wondering if there was variables for vbSEO to have the same effect but with the correct SEO rewrote URLs.

The button works to digg the post (which is already a function in vbSEO) however I would like it to show the digg count which will not work since the URLs get rewritten.


Does that make sense or am I babbling?

Example URLs Below


vbSEO url = http://forums.prisonofficer.org/offi...ed-escape.html

VB Normal URL = http://forums.prisonofficer.org/showthread.php?t=543




Thanks in advance.


Cory

[ericgtr]

Originally Posted by CoryHawk

Greetings..

Was wondering 2 things.. First.. is this possible.. and second.. can someone help me with the variables..


I have installed a snippet of code on my vbseo 1.0 template for vb 3.7beta3

The code is the following..

<!-- Digg -->
<td class="vbmenu_control" id="digg" nowrap="nowrap">
<script type="text/javascript">
digg_url = 'http://forums.prisonofficer.org/showthread.php?t=$thread[threadid]';
digg_title = "$threadinfo[title]";
digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';
digg_skin = 'compact';
digg_window = 'new';
</script>
<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</td>
<!-- / Digg -->

In the digg_url code.. it works be uses the old VB urls and not the seo-friendly vbSEO urls.. I was wondering if there was variables for vbSEO to have the same effect but with the correct SEO rewrote URLs.

The button works to digg the post (which is already a function in vbSEO) however I would like it to show the digg count which will not work since the URLs get rewritten.


Does that make sense or am I babbling?

Example URLs Below


vbSEO url = http://forums.prisonofficer.org/offi...ed-escape.html

VB Normal URL = http://forums.prisonofficer.org/showthread.php?t=543




Thanks in advance.


Cory

I have tried to find an answer to this but cannot and have ended up disabling Zoints SEO on my site because of it, which has really hurt my search engine results. For each SEO system the have a replacement variable, it's a matter of locating it.

[Andy92]

I am searching showthread.php and i cant find this line...

<td class="vbmenu_control" id="threadtools" nowrap="nowrap">

[ericgtr]

Originally Posted by Andy92

I am searching showthread.php and i cant find this line...

What version of vB are you using? Either way just looking for
id="threadtools"
should work.

[CoryHawk]

Here is a document on vBSEO's variables... could anyone with knowledge of this help me out?

http://www.vbseo.com/f2/vbseo-functi...sibility-1662/

I have no idea what needs to be replaced in the code.

[ericgtr]

Originally Posted by CoryHawk

Here is a document on vBSEO's variables... could anyone with knowledge of this help me out?

http://www.vbseo.com/f2/vbseo-functi...sibility-1662/

I have no idea what needs to be replaced in the code.

I'm not exactly sure what the replacement variables are for VBSEO because I don't have it otherwise I would mess with it for you, ultimately though you are after replacements for:

$thread[threadid]

and 

$threadinfo[title]

Maybe they can give these to you over there.

[ericgtr]

CoryHawk, I have figured out how to get this to work with vBseo as I have it installed now. Here is the code

<!-- Digg -->
<td class="vbmenu_control" id="digg" nowrap="nowrap">
<script type="text/javascript">
digg_url = 'http://www.yoursite.com$_SERVER[VBSEO_URI]';
digg_title = "$threadinfo[title]";
digg_skin = 'compact';
digg_window = 'new';
</script>
<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</td>
<!-- / Digg -->

[CoryHawk]

Thanks Eric!

Should that be _SERVER[VBSEO_URL] or VBSEO_URI ?