Topic-icon Kunena Social Icon Integration

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11 years 1 month ago #31834 by ricbar
I run a Joomla 2.5 and Kunena 2.x website and before purchasing and installing your module I would like to find out if we can integrate Facebook Like, Comments or share this Kunena post on our members facebook pages. Cross-posting I think is what I am looking for.
Our website is mainly online chat and support forums and we wish to be able to take an article or post in Kunena and have our members be able to share or comment on this article with their facebook page. Is this possible with your module?
Thanks in advance
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11 years 1 month ago #31842 by alzander
Rick,
JFBConnect will help you to do what you're looking, but I'm not sure it will do everything you're asking for.

With JFBConnect, you can easily add Like buttons to Kunena threads. You could add a comment box to the threads as well, but that would likely be confusing for your readers. JFBConnect can also automatically setup your Open Graph tags, which tell Facebook what the title, description, image, and other data from your Joomla pages. Then, if a user clicks the Like button or pastes a URL from your site into a status update on Facebook, that information will be used for the post.

There isn't a way to automatically 'push' threads from your site to your Facebook Page though, so your Kunena threads won't be 'synced' with your FB Page or something along those lines.

Hope that helps explain a little, but if you have any other questions, just let us know.

Thanks,
Alex
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11 years 1 month ago #31874 by ricbar
Thank you for your quick response to my questions. I have purchased and downloaded the software and will be looking through your forums to see if I can figure out how to add social sharing buttons to kunena. I am not a coder by any means so I hope its pretty easy :)
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11 years 1 month ago #31918 by alzander
Rick,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to this. Had to do a little investigation and testing to figure things out. It's pretty easy to add, in our opinion, but depending on where you want to place things or what you're looking for, you may need to change this a little.

You'll need to make an edit to the Kunena template files. My testing was with the default one, 'blue_eagle'. Here's what to do:
* Edit /components/com_kunena/template/templates/blue_eagle/html/topic/default.php
* Around line 32, you'll see:
<div class="kheader">
		<h2><span><?php echo JText::_('COM_KUNENA_TOPIC') ?> <?php echo $this->escape($this->topic->subject) ?></span></h2>
		<?php $this->displayModulePosition( 'kunena_topictitle' ); ?>
Simply add our {JFBCLike} tag (and any others, like {SCTwitterShare}) as below:
<div class="kheader">
		<h2><span><?php echo JText::_('COM_KUNENA_TOPIC') ?> <?php echo $this->escape($this->topic->subject) ?></span></h2>
                {JFBCLike}
		<?php $this->displayModulePosition( 'kunena_topictitle' ); ?>
That will add the Like button in the header area. You can add that button in other areas of that page to. That view is the overall layout for all topics, and is pretty concise, which is nice. Hopefully, that will get you going.

If you have any questions though, or need more help, just let us know.

Thanks,
Alex
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11 years 1 month ago #31982 by ricbar
Thank you so much again Alex, for that information. We are still discussing whether we want to implement it across the board or on certain featured posts. We love the flexibility it provides and are also impressed with your support as well.

Thanks again,
Rick
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11 years 1 month ago #32001 by alzander
Rick,
No problem for the help. Glad we could help you do what you were looking to get done. As always, should you need anything else, just let us know!

Best of luck with your site,
Alex
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