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13 years 6 months ago #28036 by alzander
Ellen,
I just looked up "Belgium national TV" and what I found was www.rtbf.be/, which uses the Like button. I'm sure whatever station you're looking at probably does use the sharer.php file though. The problem is that, since Facebook deprecated that 2 years ago, they haven't developed it at all. It's very basic and actually causes conflicts with some of their newer features including Login with Facebook, Page Tab and Requests. My guess is that the TV site doesn't have those features, but it's always possible to work around conflicts.

Either way, back to the original question, if there's something about the look of the Like button you don't like, we can try to help. There's only so many options to change the looks as Facebook has the standard, box or button counts. There's no method to use CSS to change those styles, but, if it's simply an alignment issue, we should be able to help there. On your page though, right now, I just see the Like button. I don't see any other buttons in line, so I can't tell where the issue lies. Let me know where to look, and we'll gladly help how we can!

Thanks,
Alex
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13 years 6 months ago #28038 by ellver
Hi Alex,

there are a lot of Belgian TV sites, sorry... i meant www.deredactie.be ;-)

I do understand the problems you might see in using the share button, but once more, it is still very common in Belgium.
We'll have to implement it on the website. :-/
What I see now is this (attatchment included):
First the share plugin loads on the website, then the JFBConnect loads.
Any idea how to put them on one line without putting the code of the other plugin into the code of jfbconnect?

You can see it yourself at www.musicalonstage.be

Regards

Ellen
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13 years 6 months ago #28057 by y021ahe
Alex - You were spot on - removing the second instance of the overflow hidden did the trick.

Doesn't help me too much as the other issue I have with the somethings gone wrong issue means I cant get it to work anyway - doh!, but at least this problem has gone, so when I do get it to work it will.

Thanks for this

Rich
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13 years 6 months ago #28059 by alzander
Just tested on your site, and I can't currently use the Login with Facebook button. I get an error message in the popup. That's due to the Facebook Javascript library being loaded 3 additional times in addition to JFBConnect's loading of it. Those extra inclusions will need to be removed. I'm not sure what extension is repeatedly putting the loading of the "all.js#xfbml" file in, but hopefully you can track it down.

As for the share button, one 'hidden' feature in JFBConnect that hasn't been tested thoroughly yet (and why it's not publicized) is a Javascript call to present a popup for the user to post content to their wall. The user does *not* need to be logged into your site or have granted you any permission beforehand. The call is in the /components/com_jfbconnect/includes/jfbconnect.js file and it's functional definition is:
feedPost:function (title, caption, description, url, picture)
So, you *should* be able to create a button that calls the Javascript, like:
<a href="#" onclick="jfbc.social.feedPost('Look at my site', 'Come look at what I found!', 'Great music is here', 'http://www.musicalonstage.be/', 'http://www.musicalonstage.be//link-to-image.jpg');">Click me to share!</a>
Again, very untested, but may get you started. You can use an image instead of the "Click me to share!" text, and hopefully will do some/most of what you're looking for.

Finally, for the alignment of icons, I'd start with testing the button above and see if you can get that to work. It uses similar functionality to the sharer.php file, but is supported by Facebook.

Let us know how it goes, and good luck with the options above,
Alex
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13 years 6 months ago #28064 by y021ahe
Alex,
Was that post to me Rich or Ellen.

Is there a way that mine and Ellenscan be in seperate forum entries so they can be tracked seperately as I think (thought) mine is sorted?

Rich
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13 years 6 months ago #28076 by alzander
Rich,
That post was to Ellen.. While I was posting mine, it looks like you posted. Didn't even realize that. Very glad to hear it seems to be working for you now though.. and we'll help you through the commenting issue in your other thread however we can!

Ellen,
Let us know how that feedPost code works, and if it doesn't, please create a new thread with whatever issues you're currently running into. Once created, post a link to it in this thread so others can follow. We definitely got off-track with the sharer.php stuff, which is unrelated to Rich's original post.

Thanks,
Alex
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