Show Thread Enhancements - Twitter - Tweet Button in SHOWTHREAD

This mod is now outdated and as a result support for new installs will be limited, if any.

-July 7, 2011-

Please instead use my new mod which offers Twitter and many more share options for VB 4.x without template edits.

WARNING - It appears vBulletin has changed the location of the Facebook Like button in version 4.1.2. As a result it is likely the code changes below will be different in 4.1.2 and beyond, I will not be able to support installs beginning with version 4.1.2 since my license stops at 4.0.8.


Twitter released their new TWEET button.

Live Demo: http://www.juot.net/forums/showthread.php?t=41185
(Note my Live Board is VB 3.8, but I have tested this on 4.0.4 and 4.0.6)
(Update I have for the time being replaced the Tweet button with the Add This share button on my live forum. See the screen shots instead.)

I have tested this in latest versions of IE / Firefox / Chrome / Safari / Opera and it should work in all.

This will show you how to add this simple code to your SHOWTHREAD template above the page navigation bar, if visible.

If you DO NOT use the built-in Facebook Like button do the following:

Go to the Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager
Edit your SHOWTHREAD Template

Find: (The first instance of)

		<vb:if condition="$pagenav">
			{vb:raw pagenav}
		</vb:if>

Above this add:

<vb:if condition="!in_array($GLOBALS[forumid], array(X, Y, Z))">
<div id="mytweetbutton" align="right" style="height:27px;">
<a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="YOUR_TWITTER_USERNAME">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</div>
</vb:if>

Change the X, Y, Z in the first line to the forumid's of any private forums you may have. If a guest can't view a forum there is no reason to link a tweet to it. You can add as many or as few forumid's here as you need, just separate each with a comma.
Valid Examples:
<vb:if condition="!in_array($GLOBALS[forumid], array(2, 5, 9))">
<vb:if condition="!in_array($GLOBALS[forumid], array(7))">
<vb:if condition="!in_array($GLOBALS[forumid], array(2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8))">
If none of your forums are private or you want to enable this in every forum you can remove the lines:

<vb:if condition="!in_array($GLOBALS[forumid], array(X, Y, Z))">
and 
</vb:if>

Replace "YOUR_TWITTER_USERNAME" with your twitter username, it will be referenced in the tweet- but the tweet will not be from YOU, it will be from whoever hits the tweet button.

If you DO USE the built-in Facebook Like button do the following:

Find:

		{vb:raw fblikebutton}

Replace it with:

<div id="fb_likeframe" style="border: none; overflow: hidden; height: 27px; width: 95px; vertical-align: text-bottom; padding-top:1px;"><a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="YOUR_TWITTER_USERNAME">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div>{vb:raw fblikebutton}

Replace "YOUR_TWITTER_USERNAME" with your twitter username, it will be referenced in the tweet- but the tweet will not be from YOU, it will be from whoever hits the tweet button.

The Tweet button will now show up next to the Facebook Like button in anytime the Facebook Like button is displayed in a thread.

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When you hit the Tweet button you will be given a box to type a message if you're logged in. If you're not logged in you will be asked to login or join, all within the pop-up window.

This button code will count the number of tweets people have made using it. For other options including the button with no counter visit: http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton

The screen shots show the Tweet button both with and without the page navigation bar, and with the Facebook Like button.

Please click Install if you use this.

Download the .txt file for a copy of the install instructions. :up:

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Known Issues- a few people have reported a 'slash' is missing in the URL submitted to Twitter on some boards. Other people have said URL's with non-english characters cause a URL error. The solution for both of these issues is in post #143 in this thread.

Also Twitter appears to be having widespread issues with the counter not working. Some sites it works, some it don't, sometimes it stops working, sometimes it starts working for no reason. If you find your count isn't working try the solution in post #147. If that doesn't work than disable your counter completely if you want by changing the word "horizontal" to "none" in the twitter code.

[Tony_FPM]

Everything works accept the counter.
We also work with VBseo but don't use the FB options.

[BirdOPrey5]

The counter may not work if you have unique URL's for whatever reason. You can remove the count by changing the code from data-count="horizontal" to data-count="none".

[motorola]

I got this error in vB 4.0.7 => 'url' parameter does not contain a valid URL. What's wrong?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by motorola

I got this error in vB 4.0.7 => 'url' parameter does not contain a valid URL. What's wrong?

Does the URL contain foreign language characters? Maybe ones with accents? This was a reported issue so far the only solution is to change the type of URL's in vbulletin options to Standard instead of Friendly, but this isn't an ideal solution because friendly url's are better for SEO. I am working on another solution but haven't found it yet.

[Sea Shepherd]

I also get:
After clicking the TWEET button.

URL required

'url' parameter does not contain a valid URL.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Sea Shepherd

I also get:
After clicking the TWEET button.

URL required

'url' parameter does not contain a valid URL.

I ask you the same question as I asked in post #114, do you have accented characters in your thread title?

[Sea Shepherd]

Not that i can see.
However it seems to be working today!

Edit: Stopped working again. Example URL: http://www.planetoceanalliance.org/f...e.-Please-Read.

[BirdOPrey5]

You have the "Canonical Link Element" on your page, I don't know if you added it following the instructions here or for some other reason, but in either case it's wrong.

You have:
<link rel="canonical" href="showthread.php/11265-Forum-Downtime..Sorry!" />

It's missing the http://www.planetoceanalliance.org/forum/" before the "showthread.php..." you should manually add this info to the template... from your source code it looks like this is in your SHOWTHREAD template but I'm not 100% sure.

[oldfan]

works great with 4.08 thanks

[oldfan]

Originally Posted by oldfan

works great with 4.08 thanks

All but the tweet count