Facebook Like-button for Geeklog

Why integrate facebook

The reason for this is simply put: exposure. Your site link will be exposed to everyone who is friends with a person who have "liked" your page. This is a free, simple and fast way of marketing your site. This guide will focus on how to implement the button in GeekLog with the professional theme applied.

Using Plugins

I've searched for plugins which includes the "facebook like button" and only came across one called SocialShare, available here. Unfortunately it didn't work for me so I made my own modifications and wrote down the steps needed to integrate facebook to your site.

Download files

First we need to download a few files that we need to modify manually, don't worry it will be simple.
Use a FTP client to connect to your site, and download the following files:

Modify GeekLog files

 $articleUrl = COM_buildUrl($_CONF['site_url'] . '/article.php?story='. $story->getSid());

 $article->set_var('story_encoded_link', urlencode($articleUrl)); 

<

div class="story-footer">

<

iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?show_faces=false&href={story_encoded_link}" 
scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:35px;">

<

/iframe>

Upload

Now all you have to do is to upload the modified files to their original location on your server, and your good to go.

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