× Joomla Facebook Connect support forum

Topic-icon What's the difference between JFBCContent and JFBCSocial?

Active Subscriptions:

None
I have most of the things working now. Here is what i am doing and what i am worried about:

1. I am using { JFBCLike} tag in articles. but just the tag nothing else. Is there a way i could pass my own ID while using the tag?
2. Can i leave all my worries if i am using this tag? What are the points that i should watch for and need to keep a track.
3. Is there a tutorial on this forum or elsewhere which describes all the options or usage of tags.
5. Primary reason why i am not using content plugin is because positioning like buttons is a real problem. They overlap with my articles or read more buttons in category view.
6. This is just an idea but if the content plugin can be modified in a way that it looks for a marker within an article which helps the plugin to understand that this is the place where like button needs to be placed. Something like analogy to (JFBClike} tag. To do this, I trid editing template.css But it has its own constraints. I used following

.component-content #jfbclike {
position: absolute;
top: 30px;
right: 110px;
width: 200px;
height: 30px;
}

Since article position and layout is dynamic it is nearly imposssible for me to use css and place the button in the right place. pixel position is dependent on article layout.
This seemed to work but it failed to place the button in category view. I stopped using content plugin because i did not want like button on few of my articles.

All in all my only requirement is that i want button to be positioned properly and that there should be uniformity in data supplied by facebook or the other way.

--Best
Shashank
The topic has been locked.
Support Specialist
1) When using the JFBCLike tag, you can pass the URL of the page that is meant to be Liked. This can be your home page (for use throughout your site), the page of a specific article, or even a Facebook Fan page. You can choose. If you leave the url= parameter blank, the tag will default to whatever page it's being displayed on.
2) Things to watch out for: If you don't have sh404 (or some other SEF component), if you just use the tag with no url parameter on an article, it's possible the user could arrive to that article through:
index.php?option=com_content&id=20
/2-category/21-article
A blog view showing many articles
Because of this, the like button on both pages would be 'different' to Facebook. If you use the url= parameter and force it to the 2nd (SEF) url, that guarantees that wherever the Like button is shown, it will refer to where you want it to.
3) No great tutorials, sorry. We'll be revamping our documentation over the next few weeks to prepare for 3.2 as well as incorporate suggestions like this. Feel free to ask away, and sorry for the trouble.
4) There was no #4 :)
5) Yes, if you're using 2 columns, sometimes things overlap. There's a little flexibility we have with sizing these things, so if you want us to look into it, let us know. The FB widgets in general use Javascript and iFrames, which can cause overlap issues.. and just isn't always easy to fix, unfortunately.
6) Using absolute positions would definitely cause some problems. You may be able to use relative though, which would allow you to always shift the box up by 20px and to the left by 10 from wherever we put it in by default. Worth a shot, but still may not fix everything.

Let us know what we can do, or where you need more info!

Thanks!
The topic has been locked.
Active Subscriptions:

None
Hi Alex,

I logged in just to reply to your post. I really want to thank you for all your support. Although i had an intution that with SEF no matter what all links would point to SEF URL which stays the same. What i essentially mean is that i felt it would lead to same page anyway (URL ways), so i wanted to take chance with just the tag { JFBCLike}.

I will drop a feedback and excellent rating for your component and awesome support.

One last thing if i can ask you.....Can you please provide me syntax for { JFBCLike} with possible parameters? Thanks again for your response.

--Best
Shashank
The topic has been locked.
Support Specialist
Shashank,
No problem for the support.. it's what we do :)

As for the tags you post above, can you put a space in there, or leave the {} out, so the plugin on this site doesn't parse it? In the 3.2 release, we have a method that will allow users to put tags in without them being converted, but until then, we need to obscure the tag so the JFBCSocial plugin doesn't convert it. Once we see what you put in those tags above, we'll probably be able to help you with what you're trying to do.

As for using the SEF url, it's a good idea that we can look into. It still can cause the problem though if you (or a user) goes to the non-SEF URL which normally still works.. some SEF components will redirect to the SEF url automatically though.

Hope that makes sense, and let us know what tags you're trying to do and we can help you determine the best approach.

Finally, we'd love a vote or review on the JED, and definitely appreciate it!

Good luck!
The topic has been locked.
Active Subscriptions:

None
Hi Alex,

Right now i am just using [JFBCLike] Tag without any parameters. Can you guide me how i can use parameters.

--Best
Shashank
The topic has been locked.
Support Specialist
Ah... thanks :) Yeah.. here's a few cases, that we'll try to document better somewhere in the future :)

The below is all for URL parameters. For more options you could use, see:
www.sourcecoast.com/extensions/jfbconnec...ation-guide?start=11

Page Like Button Like button that is for whatever page the user is viewing. This will use whatever the current URL is.
[JFBCLike]

Site-wide Like Button This is a Like button that would be for your homepage, that you'd display throughout your site. Good for use in your template file or in a module that displays on every page:
[JFBCLike url=http://www.domain.com]

Article-specific Like Button Like button for the article/page being displayed, whether it's in a Blog layout (with many other articles, each with their own Like button) or an article view, or something else:
[JFBCLike url=http://www.domain.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12] OR [JFBCLike url=http://www.domain.com/SEF-Url-For-Your-Article]

Hope this helps, but if we're missing a case, let us know!
The topic has been locked.
Active Subscriptions:

None
Hi Alex,

At the outset... THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS and many THANKS.

I could finally manage to get it working like a charm. Everything Joomla+JFBC+Rokbridge....everything works like a charm. I really wanna thank you for your support along the way. Excellent extension. Worth every single penny.

Without any question i have voted for JFBC on Joomla.

-Best
Shashank
The topic has been locked.
Support Specialist
Shashank,
Great to hear you got everything working (including RokBridge).. always good to hear more reports of it working well together!

Thanks for the vote, we definitely appreciate, and thanks even more for subscribing. It's what helps us focus on support and keep delivering great updates to the extension along the way!
The topic has been locked.
Active Subscriptions:

None
My Pleasure. Wish you and your team all the luck and success.

--Best
Shashank
The topic has been locked.