Miscellaneous Hacks - Facebook-Comments to CMS-Articles

Hello my vB-friends!

I have a little modification for your vB-CMS!

With this little template-edit you can show facebook-comments under your CMS-articles.

Sorry for my bad english, i doe my best! (iam german)

What is needed for this modification:

- standard facebook account.
- facebook application, anyone can set one up and it's simple http://www.facebook.com/developers/createapp.php

Now the template-edits:

Search template:
vbcms_content_article_page

and find

{vb:raw comment_block}

Add below this code:

<!-- FB Comments -->
        <h2 class="blockhead" style="padding-top:5px;"><span class="optiontitle">Facebook comments</span></h2>
        <div id="thread_tags_list" class="thread_info_block blockbody formcontrols floatcontainer">
           <div class="blockrow floatcontainer">
                <div id='tag_list_cell'>
    <div id="fb-root"></div><script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#appId=YOURAPPID&amp;xfbml=1"></script><fb:comments href="http://www.YOURSITE.com/{vb:raw relpath}" expr:xid="YOUR-APP-ID" simple="1" num_posts="10" width="500" publish_feed="true"></fb:comments><br/>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
<img src="clear.gif" height="10" /><br />
        <!-- /FB Comments -->

Be sure you have change YOUR_APP_ID to your app-id!

Now it looks like the screenshot.

If you use it, please push install, rate and nominate

Hope you like it


Big thank to Gemma & Noli for help!

[BF777]

Do the comments show up as Facebook status updates?

In other words, if I comment on an article, will it show up on my Friend's Newsfeed?

[BF777]

I also keep getting some debugger error.

Does this mod support redirects? I just changed my domain name a few days ago so I have a redirect from the old domain name to the new one.

[Noli]

Here is the code to get rid of the compatiblity mode error. This code also sets one comment box per cms article, so you dont have all the comments mixed in alle the articles.

<!-- FB Comments -->
        <h2 class="blockhead" style="padding-top:5px;"><span class="optiontitle">Facebook Kommentare</span></h2>
        <div id="thread_tags_list" class="thread_info_block blockbody formcontrols floatcontainer">
           <div class="blockrow floatcontainer">
                <div id='tag_list_cell'>
    <div id="fb-root"></div><script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#appId=YOURAPPID&amp;xfbml=1"></script><fb:comments href="http://www.YOURSITE.com/{vb:raw relpath}" expr:xid="YOUR-APP-ID" simple="1" num_posts="10" width="500" publish_feed="true"></fb:comments><br/>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
<img src="clear.gif" height="10" /><br />
        <!-- /FB Comments -->

just change all the stuff, just a little sidenote, the link in href isnt vbseo compatbile. i dont think that should be a big problem.

[xeon1]

Noli, Thank you! You're a life saver

~Xeon1

[Kraxell]

I'll take a look at nolis code and modifiy my

[Kraxell]

Code is fixed. Thank to Noli for his help!

[Noli]

btw. this should also work if you use the code under {vb:raw similarthreads} in SHOWTHREAD.

[BF777]

Works great in version. 4.1.1.1. Excellent job.

[Naijasite]

Its working perfectly check it out on this forum click on any of the article and scroll below and you will see the Facebook comment working http://www.naijafinder.com/content/

[Kraxell]

Thanks for feedback