Facebook Like-button for Geeklog

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:

• /layout/professional/storytext.thtml
• /layout/professional/featuredstorytext.thtml
• /system/lib-story.php

Modify GeekLog files

• First, open up the lib-story.php file in any text editor that you prefer and search for the following text:

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

• Insert the following line of below the line mentioned above

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

• Save and close the file
• Open storytext.thtml and search for
   

  <

  div class="story-footer">

• Insert the following code below that line mentioned above:
   

  <

  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>
  

• Save and close
• Do with featuredstorytext.thtml the same as you did with storytext.thtml

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.

Andreas

andreas@enkeladress.com
enkeladress.com