Social Group and Album Enhancements - "Share" Button in NavBar and Showthread (links to over 200 social networking sites)

This is more of an idea than a really involved mod. Just a little template edit that places the "Share" button from www.addthis.com the Navbar so your posts and threads can be Shared with the world easily. Thanks go out to all the other people who published mods that showed me how.

1. DEMO HERE to see if this is something you want to do.

2. Go to www.addthis.com and get your own button code. Save in WordPad then go to step 3.

3. In navbar template find:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getdaily" accesskey="2">$vbphrase[todays_posts]</a></td>
                </if>

4. Insert below: (REPLACE CODE IN RED WITH CODE YOU GOT FROM WWW.ADDTHIS.COM IN STEP 2.)

<td class="vbmenu_control"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->
<a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pub=hearts4horses" onmouseover="return addthis_open(this, '', '[url]', '[TITLE]')" onmouseout="addthis_close()" onclick="return addthis_sendto()"><img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js?pub=hearts4horses"></script>
<!-- AddThis Button END -->
</td>

5. Save

6. (optional) Post a thread notifying your members about the new feature.

7. Click "Installed"

This is a simple way to allow for additional cross networking for your forums.

[linuxututs]

Originally Posted by woffie

I found another good place to put this.

In your SHOWTHREAD template find the code


Add this code above it. It will bookmark threads.

ShareThis also works with this Hack, but the navbar didn't show for me.

http://sharethis.com

( Sharethis also looks better to me )

Peace..............

[Rean]

Originally Posted by bmckinley

Please create a user id and PW for me to log in to your forum and PM it to me along with the url for your forum. I will log in and try and see what is going on.

i did nothing, but suddenly this mod works well!
dont know what happened...
thanx for your help anyway

[Hostboard]

Originally Posted by bmckinley

Hostboard hit it right on the money...don't think the add this can be restricted to FB only.



The navbar thing would be really cool. Hostboard, do you want to either post or publish a hack on how to? if not, I'll do it, but your idea, so just go with it...if you publish, don't forget to come back here and edit in a link to your mod. Thanks for the help and suggestions about tms.

I would rather help you to expand this to include options for users so they can choose how they want to implement this on their site. I personaly hate having to choose between 1 modificaiton and another as inevitably there is something of both that I want but neither has it "all" Feel free to PM me and I will help you the best I can.

[bmckinley]

I think between you and Woffie, the anywhere has been accomplished. As Woffie pointed out early in the thread, doesn't just have to go in navbar, he put it in the showthread template. You have shown others how to use it in the bookmarks temp.

There are of course about a million places it could be used. I think if people want to place it somewhere and can't figure it out, we can help them.

If you think it's better to edit the mod and create "anywhere" instructions, then let me know an we'll do that. I just really appreciate all your help.

[fatdr]

i use in navbar and showthread ;
thats wonderfull working.
thanks

[bmckinley]

Glad it's working for you.

[Skydiver10]

Thank you!

[bmckinley]

Glad it's working for you. If you think of any other ares you would like to use, please let us know.

[Naan-Kadavul]

thanks, screenshots wanted plz..

[TheKdd]

Is there a way to exclude this from certain forums?