Integration with vBulletin - Pinterest Sharing System by BOP5 for VB 3.8 & VB 4.x! (Pinterest Pin Button Mod)

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A BIG Thank You to all for voting this May 2012 Mod of the Month!

Version 1.04 - Added showpost compatibility
Version 1.01 - Compatibility fix for dbtech Advanced Thanks/Like mod
Version 1.0 - Initial (Non-Beta) Release

This mod is compatible with all VB 3.8 and 4.x versions released to date. It has been tested on VB 3.8.7, VB 4.1.11, and VB 4.2.0 and should work on older and newer versions as well.

Live Demos:
VB4 Demo: Pinterest Share Demo at Qapla.com
VB3 Demo: Pinterest Share Demo Thread - JUOT - Joe's Ultimate Off Topic

Pinterest is the next big thing in Social Media. It offers a very intuitive and friendly interface for users to share the things they like, use, and appreciate.

Unlike with Facebook or Twitter Pinterest absolutely requires some sort of visual representation of what you are sharing- this takes the form of a thumbnail image of a larger image or a thumbnail of a video.

Previously even if you could incorporate the Pinterest Pin button code into vBulletin there was no way to associate a unique image with every post.

This mod will search east post for any of the following. Priority is given to higher ranked items. The first instance of the first item type found will become the thumbnail sent to Pinterest. Each item can be enabled or disabled from the mod settings.

1) First it will look for YouTube videos. (Either embedded with [VIDEO] BBCode OR regular YouTube links OR YouTube videos embedded with the AME mod.

2) If no YouTube video is found it will next look for links to any external images. These are images that use the [IMG] BBCode.

3) If no external images are found it will look for any inline attachments. In the settings you can specify whether it should share the full sized attached image or only the thumbnail. Guests must have permission to download attachments or to see thumbnails for this option to work.

4) If none of the above find anything the mod can use this option will use avatar of the poster as the thumbnail sent to Pinterest.

5) If the user has no avatar as a last resort you can specify a link to a default forum image (perhaps the forum logo?) that will be submitted as the thumbnail.

Pinterest will not accept any Pins that do not contain a valid, guest accessible, image thumbnail.

You can choose the default description text. You can take text from the post itself, the thread title, or the forum META description. In any case the user always has the option to edit the description before submitting it to Pinterest.

The mod also contains a number of settings that allow you to choose how you want the Pinterest button to look, where you want it, and other basics such as what forums, styles, or usergroups to disable but button for or in.

The mod uses auto template edits for basic use however power-users will want to opt for the manual template edits (explained below) for even better customization and positioning of the Pinterest Pin Button.

Known Issues:
Using the recommended locations and settings the mod is working well on VB 3.8 and VB 4.x as you can see in the demo links above. However adding the Pinterest button causes some visual changes in some browsers.

For example in VB 4 with Chrome browser if you quick-edit a post with the Pinterest button the editor toolbar is pushed down lower than normal. Everything works it's just different than you are used to. In Firefox however the editor toolbar looks fine.

In VB 3 in the post message area location the "numbers" from the pin button are outside the border of the main table. This is somewhat on purpose- I think having the count outside the box draws more attention to them. Unfortunately if you don't like that all I can suggest is to disable the count completely because I am not a style expert. You are free however to do the manual template edit including in the instructions (and below) to find the perfect spot for your Pin button on your style(s).

Please Mark as Installed if you use this.
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[BirdOPrey5]

It would be completely useless to use this mod on an album page- there would be nothing in common- the code here is getting it's info from the $post array which is only created for posts.

I understand how it would be useful for an albums page but I think you'd be better off starting with just the basic Pinterest button code available from Pinterest itself- it would actually be a lot easier to make it by picture for albums because you would have access to the actual image URL on each page.

NOTE: This will only work if your albums are visible to guests- if they aren't don't bother trying.

[turbosatan]

was just wondering if it might be able to pickup page name or album owner name instead of post title info.

would that be easy enough for me to modify in your code?

[BirdOPrey5]

I can't answer if it's easy or not, depends what is easy for you.

There is no "title" supplied by this mod- perhaps you mean the description?

It's created in the plugin Pin Button in Posts

It's commented in the code where it does this.

But this is the snippet...

    //Get Description 
    if ($vbulletin->options['bop5pin_desc'] == 0) 
      $boppin['desc'] = trim(urlencode(trim($vbulletin->options['description']))); 
    elseif ($vbulletin->options['bop5pin_desc'] == 1) 
      $boppin['desc'] = trim(urlencode($thread['title'])); 
    else // ($vbulletin->options['bop5pin_desc'] == 2) 
      $boppin['desc'] = trim(urlencode(strip_tags(trim($post['message']))));

You can erase all that and just set $boppin['desc'] = to whatever you want. If you can figure out how to get what you want in that plugin.

[Gemma]

Installed again, had to do some changes to get it to display where I wanted.

http://www.arcadejunkies.org/f31/eve...bie-kill-1782/

[justicechick]

Awesome! Was looking for something I didnt have to manually manipulate the templates! Thanks

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

It would be completely useless to use this mod on an album page- there would be nothing in common- the code here is getting it's info from the $post array which is only created for posts.

I understand how it would be useful for an albums page but I think you'd be better off starting with just the basic Pinterest button code available from Pinterest itself- it would actually be a lot easier to make it by picture for albums because you would have access to the actual image URL on each page.

NOTE: This will only work if your albums are visible to guests- if they aren't don't bother trying.

Can anyone point us in the right direction as to where the Pinterest button code (default from pinterest) might go for other places besides forums.? (video/media, photos/pics, etc)

Also, I see their button code includes a placement code & another script code that needs to go somewhere.?
Where would the 2nd code go.? (header/footer.?)

Thanks

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Can anyone point us in the right direction as to where the Pinterest button code (default from pinterest) might go for other places besides forums.? (video/media, photos/pics, etc)

Also, I see their button code includes a placement code & another script code that needs to go somewhere.?
Where would the 2nd code go.? (header/footer.?)

Thanks

Since that discussion is unrelated to this mod please make sure it takes place in a separate thread. This thread is for discussion of this mod only.

Thank You.

[fcbsportscards]

Hey Bop5 great mod! I am having an issue where pintrest does not pick up the image if it's an attachment. I have combed the comments here and I see someone else having the issue, but I did not see a solution. I set my settings to attachment only and I have made that attachments are viewable to guests. You got any ideas as to what is wrong?

[fcbsportscards]

Did some more digging Bop5 and I figured it out myself. It was a permissions issue and your mod works great. Thanks for making it.

[tpearl5]

Any ideas for putting the pin button in the lower left of the image?