ubb.social - UBB.Developers

Name: ubb.social - Definition

Author: Allen Ayres

Version: 7.0b

Info: Most are familiar with the mega-sites www.digg.com and http://del.icio.us - social networking sites that allow users to link articles/sites/etc that are interesting, funny, discussable

This mod adds icons to the first post in a topic so it can be added as a social bookmark to digg or del.icio.us. Those making the links at those sites will need accounts there.

To Do: Adding to showthreaded. Maybe add for other sites as well like slashdot

Version History:
- 08/02/2006 - initial release
- 01/09/2007 - FULL_URL bug fixed, wordlets done

Attached File

2247-ubb.social.zip (125 downloads)

Here's an example screen shot:

Attached picture 2248-example.gif

Cool - thanks

I like it... I feel sorry for those who get digged though... I've heard of digging's completley downing servers lol

That happens often - but you can't hardly buy that kinda advertisement

haha, yeh but on a shared hosting enviroment it can be murder, especially on the helpdesk workers lol...

When I click on the link i get this... thining this is not right...

Attached picture 2333-Picture6.png

Doesn't look right, it should be loading the url to your forum in there

http://www.clubadventist.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/etc

I'd double-check your control panel settings to see if you use a relative url or the full one.

Where do I find that? am looking,,,,,,,

Nice mod Allen! FWIW, our site essentially got 'digged'/'slashdotted' during a recent climbing accident in Oregon and we are on a shared server. UBB help up extremely well with over 625 users online at once hammering away for a few days steady.

Allen, you are using BASE_URL, not FULL_URL, hence his problem with the urls, everyone should be getting that problem unless their base_url is wrong

Originally Posted by chillin

Nice mod Allen! FWIW, our site essentially got 'digged'/'slashdotted' during a recent climbing accident in Oregon and we are on a shared server. UBB help up extremely well with over 625 users online at once hammering away for a few days steady.

Thats crazy, I got hit by digg once, vps was down for 3 days lol...

and we use dreamhost! i was pretty impressed/amazed. Kudos to Rick on the new version.

Oh wow, i've heard a buncha bad things about them too in reguards to stability, so it really is crazy in your case lol

does anyone have this working??

Please post url
thanks

The below fixes it, I'll update the first post once I get my computer back on Monday

Originally Posted by Ian Spence

Allen, you are using BASE_URL, not FULL_URL, hence his problem with the urls, everyone should be getting that problem unless their base_url is wrong

Bug fixed and Wordlets done

Lookin Goot!

zip file attached with various icons I have collected for social networking sites - maybe of use to someone

Attached File

social_icons.zip (262 downloads)

Okay - maybe I am an idiot - but can anyone tell me why this doesn't work? What have I missed?

Obviously under 7.2.x you need to alter post_side.tpl and post_top.tpl - and I have simplified the code - but it should still work...

Code

{if $smarty.section.post.iteration == 1}
<br /><br /> <span class="small">
<a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url={$config.FULL_URL}/ubbthreads.php{$var_start}ubb{$var_eq}showflat{$var_sep}Number{$var_eq}{$postrow[post].Number}#Post{$postrow[post].Number}&title={$postrow[post].Subject}" target="_blank"><img src="{$config.FULL_URL}/images/social/delicious.gif" border="0" alt="Add {$postrow[post].Subject} to Del.icio.us" /></a>
<a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url={$config.FULL_URL}/ubbthreads.php{$var_start}ubb{$var_eq}showflat{$var_sep}Number{$var_eq}{$postrow[post].Number}#Post{$postrow[post].Number}&title={$postrow[post].Subject}" target="_blank"><img src="{$config.FULL_URL}/images/social/digg.gif" border="0" alt="Digg {$postrow[post].Subject}" /></a>
<a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?u={$config.FULL_URL}/ubbthreads.php{$var_start}ubb{$var_eq}showflat{$var_sep}Number{$var_eq}{$postrow[post].Number}#Post{$postrow[post].Number}&t={$postrow[post].Subject}" target="_blank"><img src="{$config.FULL_URL}/images/social/yahoomyweb.gif" border="0" alt="Add {$postrow[post].Subject} to Yahoo My Web" /></a>
<a href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk={$config.FULL_URL}/ubbthreads.php{$var_start}ubb{$var_eq}showflat{$var_sep}Number{$var_eq}{$postrow[post].Number}#Post{$postrow[post].Number}&title={$postrow[post].Subject}" target="_blank"><img src="{$config.FULL_URL}/images/social/googlebookmarks.gif" border="0" alt="Add {$postrow[post].Subject} to Google Bookmarks" /></a>
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u={$config.FULL_URL}/ubbthreads.php{$var_start}ubb{$var_eq}showflat{$var_sep}Number{$var_eq}{$postrow[post].Number}#Post{$postrow[post].Number}&t={$postrow[post].Subject}" target="_blank"><img src="{$config.FULL_URL}/images/social/facebook.gif" border="0" alt="Add {$postrow[post].Subject} to Facebook" /></a>
<a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url={$config.FULL_URL}/ubbthreads.php{$var_start}ubb{$var_eq}showflat{$var_sep}Number{$var_eq}{$postrow[post].Number}#Post{$postrow[post].Number}&title={$postrow[post].Subject}" target="_blank"><img src="{$config.FULL_URL}/images/social/stumbleupon.gif" border="0" alt="Add {$postrow[post].Subject} to Stumbleupon" /></a>
</span>
{/if}

However all I get are html links, then the image.

Okay - the problem is the subject of the post is being surrounded by....

subject placed correctly here

Code


<a href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk=http://www.fansfocus.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/1031688#Post1031688&title=<span id="subject0">Email addresses - please update</span>" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.fansfocus.com/forums/images/social/googlebookmarks.gif" border="0" alt="Add <span id="subject0">Email addresses - please update</span> to Google Bookmarks"  /></a>
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.fansfocus.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/1031688#Post1031688&t=<span id="subject0">Email addresses - please update</span>" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.fansfocus.com/forums/images/social/facebook.gif" border="0" alt="Add <span id="subject0">Email addresses - please update</span> to Facebook"  /></a>
<a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.fansfocus.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/1031688#Post1031688&title=<span id="subject0">Email addresses - please update</span>" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.fansfocus.com/forums/images/social/stumbleupon.gif" border="0" alt="Add <span id="subject0">Email addresses - please update</span> to Stumbleupon"  /></a>

Hence the links rather than just the image - also of course the title submitted will be incorrect.

I cannot trace how to remove the span from around the subject....

Is there any easy way?

yes, give me today to look it over

Okay - I think I have cracked this

In showflat.inc.php

replace

$postrow[$i]['Subject'] = "$Subject";

with

$postrow[$i]['Subject'] = "$Subject";
$postrow[$i]['SubjectSocial'] = "$Subject";

Then in the links use

{$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} instead of {$postrow[post].Subject}

However you also need to remove

#Post{$postrow[post].Number}

from each link, as the # seems to stop the title from being recognised within the bookmarking submission forms.

I have it working now at say...

http://www.fansfocus.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/1212027/

I can find no way though to add in the #postnumber

There may be another way to do this though - but at least it works

This is my latest version

Code

<br /><br />
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url={$config.FULL_URL}/ubbthreads.php{$var_start}ubb{$var_eq}showflat{$var_sep}Number{$var_eq}{$postrow[post].Number}%2F%23Post{$postrow[post].Number}&title={$postrow[post].SubjectSocial}" title="Add {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to del.icio.us" target="_blank"><img src="{$config.FULL_URL}/images/social/delicious.gif" border="0" alt="Add {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to Del.icio.us" title="Post {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to Del.icio.us" /></a>
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url={$config.FULL_URL}/ubbthreads.php{$var_start}ubb{$var_eq}showflat{$var_sep}Number{$var_eq}{$postrow[post].Number}%2F%23Post{$postrow[post].Number}&title={$postrow[post].SubjectSocial}" title="Digg {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial}" target="_blank"><img src="{$config.FULL_URL}/images/social/digg.gif" border="0" alt="Digg {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial}" title="Digg {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial}" /></a>
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?u={$config.FULL_URL}/ubbthreads.php{$var_start}ubb{$var_eq}showflat{$var_sep}Number{$var_eq}{$postrow[post].Number}%2F%23Post{$postrow[post].Number}&t={$postrow[post].SubjectSocial}" title="Post {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to Yahoo My Web" target="_blank"><img src="{$config.FULL_URL}/images/social/yahoomyweb.gif" border="0" alt="Add {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to Yahoo My Web" title="Add {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to Yahoo My Web" /></a>
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk={$config.FULL_URL}/ubbthreads.php{$var_start}ubb{$var_eq}showflat{$var_sep}Number{$var_eq}{$postrow[post].Number}%2F%23Post{$postrow[post].Number}&title={$postrow[post].SubjectSocial}" title="Post {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to Google Bookmarks" target="_blank"><img src="{$config.FULL_URL}/images/social/googlebookmarks.gif" border="0" alt="Add {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to Google Bookmarks" title="Add {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to Google Bookmarks" /></a>
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u={$config.FULL_URL}/ubbthreads.php{$var_start}ubb{$var_eq}showflat{$var_sep}Number{$var_eq}{$postrow[post].Number}%2F%23Post{$postrow[post].Number}&t={$postrow[post].SubjectSocial}" title="Post {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to Facebook" target="_blank"><img src="{$config.FULL_URL}/images/social/facebook.gif" border="0" alt="Add {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to Facebook" title="Add {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to Facebook " /></a>
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url={$config.FULL_URL}/ubbthreads.php{$var_start}ubb{$var_eq}showflat{$var_sep}Number{$var_eq}{$postrow[post].Number}%2F%23Post{$postrow[post].Number}&title={$postrow[post].SubjectSocial}" title="Post {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to Stumbleupon" target="_blank"><img src="{$config.FULL_URL}/images/social/stumbleupon.gif" border="0" alt="Add {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to Stumbleupon" title="Add {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to Stumbleupon" /></a>
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://reddit.com/submit?url={$config.FULL_URL}/ubbthreads.php{$var_start}ubb{$var_eq}showflat{$var_sep}Number{$var_eq}{$postrow[post].Number}%2F%23Post{$postrow[post].Number}&title={$postrow[post].SubjectSocial}" title="Post {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to Reddit" target="_blank"><img src="{$config.FULL_URL}/images/social/reddit.gif" border="0" alt="Add {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to Reddit" title="Add {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to Reddit" /></a>

Notes:-

I am only using icons (which I have contained within /images/social), so have removed the div command.
I am adding to all posts so have removed the smarty command, which limits it to the first post on a page only.
I have added "no follow" to each link
I have changed #Post{$postrow[post].Number} to %2F%23Post{$postrow[post].Number} - this allows the full post URL to go through to the bookmarks (it also ensures that the title of the post is carried over as well (which was not happening before))
I have added a few more links - I am not 100% sure which sites are the most popular.
This is not updated with the language files though. Words are hardcoded.
This needs to be added to post_top.tpl and post_side.tpl to show up in the posts for 7.2 and above.
In showflat.inc.php replace $postrow[$i]['Subject'] = "$Subject"; with $postrow[$i]['Subject'] = "$Subject"; $postrow[$i]['SubjectSocial'] = "$Subject";

I have tested on yahoo, google & digg - so can only assume others work as well.

Thanks to Allen for the original posts

If adding to each post - it might be better to locate it above
{$lang.TOP} on the post_side.tpl, adding a
just above this line.

In case anyone goes to my forums - I have now moved mine to the left of the edit/reply/quote buttons.

http://www.fansfocus.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/1276872/Main/113813/#Post1276872

This requires adding an extra class, otherwise there will be a short line to the left of the buttons - and changing the colspan on the post page.

In hindsight this is probably the best place for it - unless anyone else has any suggestions / comments....

Hi Ian I'm really interested in this.

Does it work on 7.3?

Thanks

It should work fine

Great!

With the additions and things above from 7.0 to 7.3, I am a little confused as to what exactly needs to be done and in which files...
Can someone hand hold me through what needs to be changed for this for the 7.3 version (don't want to do anything to mess it all up!)

Thanks

I did alter this a bit and tweaked it a little.

I have not yet re-implemented this on 7.3 - sorry.

So should I use what you posted below? Not sure which files to change. Oh dear I wish I knew more....

Thanks

Anyone able to put together what needs to be done for 7.3 in a simple way? (Small, sorry) donations possible as I would really like to get this going!

Thank you

I haven't looked at this in a while willing - I am working on the links project for now, if you haven't been assisted by the time I get through there I can look at this, but it's going to be a while... maybe Ian has time.

OK thank you.
Would be really great I would really like to implement this but don't want to mess anything up!

I hope a bit of a bump is acceptable (if not, I understand)!

Any word on this at all friendly folk!

OK. Anyone able to do this for me - will pay!

Thanks

I'd like to see this up and running on 7.3 as well.
I've not yet moved my boards to 7.3 so i may implement it now and then reimplement once the fix for 7.3 is available (pretty please

).

If I get time I'll look at this today

Originally Posted by Ian_W

This is my latest version

I have added "no follow" to each link

Why do you use the nofollow tag? Shouldn't make any difference in the number of bots on your own site, eh? Just wondering about the strategy

Thanks I will look forward to that!

OK, I updated the download in the original post - I really didn't change much from the original. I did:

- remove the end post#, as it was preventing the subject from loading into digg and delicious correctly. It's not needed if you are only linking the starting post in a topic (as it is written)
- removed the extra span tags since they're redundant now
- update instructions for 7.3

I only included instructions for postside.tpl, they're pretty much identical for posttop.tpl if you want to put them there, I've never seen anyone use that tho.

I only included the 2 original sites too, if you want to customize this Ian's code is pretty easy to follow

I didn't include the nofollow tags - it can only help your site's SE rankings to allow the bots to see good links to and hopefully from the huge networking sites.

Hehe, I love how we reinvent the wheel in our own ways here

... Seems we all like things working a different way

good stuff, Allen [Linked Image]

Thanks, it looks like it adds the links to the post at the top of each page in a topic. hmmm...

that's cuz you are using

PHP Code

{if $smarty.section.post.iteration == 1}

which specifies the 1st post on the page..

just remove the {if ...} and the {/if} and it will show on all of em..

My question is, why list it on every post when you're simply bookmarking the thread?

for me, it's obvious -- ease of use.

you can be reading a post that is really good.. maybe not the 1st post in the thread.. you like it, you 'digg it'.

no need to go to Top and book mark.. just digg it right there.

that's how i have my social stuff done. (i use scriptac, but it's the same idea)...

i css the 'Top' link to the right and have the little bookmark bar on the left for each post in the thread.

workie nicie

Thanks will take a look.

Is 2247-ubb.social the latest file by the way? Thanks

Sorry I might have missed this, how do we add Facebook and others? Does what is posted earlier on need adjustment?

Thanks

I keep the zip in the first post updated with current code, to avoid confusion - there'll be a time-stamp on files within too. I'll take a look at facebook code, but it should be about the same.

Originally Posted by sirdude

that's cuz you are using

PHP Code

{if $smarty.section.post.iteration == 1}

which specifies the 1st post on the page..

just remove the {if ...} and the {/if} and it will show on all of em..

hmm... kinda clutters up the interface more. I notice vb just puts a bar across the bottom of the page to do this social linking thing. Don't really want another bar tho, I'll have to think about it.

yah, Allen i can see your point and i believe it's a personal pref thing actually.

what i've done with a similar mod is allow the user to decide what they'd like to see.. i don't have a screenie, but can show where i put it for the single one..

[Linked Image]

the javascript bar is to the right of the 'using ubbcode' pulldown at the top of the re-designed quick reply box.. another spot for the single one is under the checkbox for 'enable sig'

some want just the one link dealio.. others want it in every post (although it is the same link to the topic) for convenience..

so i can see you quandry in a sense not knowing what the 'optimum' solution would be for MOST peeps

i ended up just making it a user preference, so they could choose: 1) every post 2) quick reply re-designed 3) never show

I have a need for the other way around!
A ubb.social that is placed in other news websites, and when someone clicks on the Icon, he will add NEWS, or information in the UBB Forum (not from the Forums to some Digg or similar, but from some news/blog website - add the article in the Forum).

Any idea how to do this? Or at least, what are the tables that are modified in an Insert Post in a Forum in UBB.

I think a year and 2 months before your first post is a new record

I understand the question, but don't see how it's possible, outside maybe a browser toolbar widget. Otherwise you'd have to convince these other sites to add code to post their articles to your forum.

Thanks for replying!
Yes, there is some time between my registration and my post. The good news is that there are ppl reading here...

Back to the my question: It should work just the same way you post to DIgG.it, Facebook and others. A lot of website offers this feature of sharing somewhere else. It would be good to share content in the UBB Forum as well.
I would really need this feature for my message board. And yes, the other sites can add some code to post in my (UBB)forum. This will increase the interest and traffic.

I was trying to do this myself, but I need to know all the tables are affected by inserting a new post in UBB. I am sure it is not only the ubb_post table. There should be some others as well.
I also think this is a good feature for UBB in the next realease. It will increase the chance of ppl contributing with article to the UBB Forums.

Hey Allen

Please share your opinion on this topic

So is this working now for the latest version of threads?

AND is it the download that is in post number 1?

Hi Stan, I haven't tested it recently, but it should work fine. No major changes were made that would affect this. Let me know if you run into issues.

Does it do facebook?

Thanks

Originally Posted by Placebo

Hey Allen

Please share your opinion on this topic

Once permission checks are done, I believe the posts table is the only one affected, unless you want to update post counts.

Originally Posted by StanCA

Does it do facebook?

Thanks

You might find the AddThis mod useful; it includes a LOT of various bookmarking sites...

just installed the AddThis thanks

I just added the set on my forums -

http://forums.bellaonline.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=555859

it's working fine on UBB 7.5.2. There are 2 downsides:

1) I have non-search-engine-friendly URLs so they have & and ? in them. That screws up the social networks which truncate all of that. So the links only point to the main forum page. Is there any way to escape those so that they get to the destination properly? You can click on one to see what I mean.

2) with the location of the icons underneath the profile they seem to indicate you're bookmarking the PERSON not the POST. Any way to move the icons over to near the other post related buttons (edit etc)?

OK here are the full details of how I got a row of icons next to my edit buttons:

1) Upload the many icons (including a twitter.gif) to your social/threads images directory
2) Make sure spider-friendly URLs are on and you have full URLs SET
3) in showflat.inc.php look for: $postrow[$i]['Subject'] = $results[$i]['POST_SUBJECT'];
add in after that: $postrow[$i]['SubjectSocial'] = $results[$i]['POST_SUBJECT'];

4) in /templates/default/postside.tpl:

Find this: {$postrow[post].Signature}

Look below it for the right before the edit buttons start up. Change that TD into the below code, to create a pair of side-by-side columns.

title="Add {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to Yahoo My Web" />

Add {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to <br><br>Google Bookmarks

title="Add {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to Stumbleupon" />

target="_blank">

Add {$postrow[post].SubjectSocial} to Reddit

after this point you should have all the edit buttons, and then after all of them you need to close the new inner table plus the regular one with:

and then the {if $type == "pm"} comes after that.