zenFBLike Plug-in

zenFBLike is the first step to full XFBML integration of zenPhoto. This plug-in is designed to allow easy installation (via template calls) of the Facebook Like button for your social minded gallery viewers. It is accomplished by loading Facebook's Javascript SDK allowing parsing of XFBML for social site integration.

Changelog

v0.1
Plug-in creation.

* Adds functionality of Like buttons via template calls.
* All currently configurable variables for the Like Button are configured in the plug-in settings under admin interface.

Installation

1. Installation is similar to other plugins. Uncompress zenFBLike.zip and upload to your root "/plugins" directory, not the "zp-core/zp-extensions" directory.
2. Login to your administration settings.
3. Activate plugin from the "plugins" tab.
4. Set your options from the Options -> Plugins -> zenFBLike
5. Place the function call on whichever theme page you want to access it by:

Support

Support can be reached via the zenPhoto Support forums in the thread listed below, or via the zenFBLike application page listed below.

zenFBLike Application: Linked Here.

Support Thread: Linked Here.

Donate

If you enjoy this plugin and find it useful, donate to myself, the zenphoto developers, or the zenphoto project! Open source only survives if you help it!

Download

v0.1

http://www.michealluttrull.com/zen/uploaded/zenFBLike-v0.1.zip

Info & Download Page
http://www.michealluttrull.com/zen/pages/zenfblike

Could you maybe make a page for this like for zentwitter? If not you should at least include a read me file I think.
Anyway, a page be better to link to (and improves your site's seo, too..;-)) instead of this thread.

Update: Just saw that you have already one but hidden in the plugin itself..;-) Therefore, consider the plugin entry added.

Update2: You have a small error in your doc: [i]Installation is similar to other plugins. Uncompress zenFBLike.zip and upload to your root "/plugins" directory, not the "zp-core/plugins" directory.[/i]
There is no "zp-core/plugins" but a "zp-core/zp-extensions" folder. Just to note.

I knew I forgot to link to something... will edit the initial announcement.

Edit: good catch, was going from memory which appears to be a bit shaky after taking the time off, lol.

Happens..;-)

For those interested you can see the Like button in action on my Pages, news articles, as well as image.php pages.

i am extra noobie. I downloaded the fblike zip file.. unzipped it and put the folder in my plugins folder, but it doesn't show up in the admin-->plugins section. There's lots of other plugins, but not this one.. I tried it with your twitter plugin and didn't see that either. Is there some other step I'm missing to have ZP find this new plugin?

p.s. sorry if its dumb question

Sorry, it's my instructions that might be the problem. The only thing you'll be putting in the plugins folder is the zenFBLike.php there shouldn't be a folder or anything to upload there. I'll recheck my archive to make sure I didn't include a random folder.

Well, since your plugins are just single files, just writing to upload the file itself to the plugins folder should probably be clear.

@gcohn2: Zenphoto plugins are never in a folder. But the plugin file can have a accompaning extra folder that contains additional files like graphics, extra functions or such (like the Flowplayer3 plugin).

thanks micheall and acrylian.. Yeah.. i put the whole folder in there.. i'll take the php out of it and see what happens.

ok.. getting closer.. now i got the plugin to show up on the plugin page.. activated it.. i just am not totally clear on where i paste:

if i want the like thing to show up in all of my albums.

one other thing.. the link on your page for the download:

http://www.michealluttrull.com/zen/uploaded/zenFBLike-v0.1.zip

actually points to your twitter app.. i did figure out that i could just paste the above into the address bar and download the right thing though..i'm not totally helpless.

thanks again.

You have that to paste it to your theme's album.php then. Where exactly there depends on where you want it to appear and on the theme of course.

Updated the download page, must have gotten the links mashed up as I was releasing the zenTwitter update too. And yes as acrylian said you put the template call where you want it to show up. So if you wanted it on all your album pages you'd put it on the album.php page wherever you'd like it to show up.

Ok.. now i'm really close. maybe its just my dumb site... i see the button.. i try to like it.. then i get 'error' and if i click error.. i get a popup window from facebook saying

The page at http://gabecohn.com/photos/zenphoto-1.2.9/zenphoto/2010-05_f+s/ could not be reached.

the weird thing is that it worked on the first album.. but then didn't work after that.. you are welcome to go to my site (above) and try to like something.. i really like the idea. does it then show up on my fb page? as something i liked? micheall...would u rather i email you so as to not clog up this forum? this is the first time i've ever written in a forum so i'm sure i'm screwing up all the ettiquette

Discussing this here is absolutly okay.

No writing here will be best as other users might run into the same issues you did and will allow them to find the answers. I see that your second album is having issues, but the first album and then the 2010-05_366_GB_Flowers album didn't have any issues.

I'll take a look to see if perhaps it's a character issue.

Edit:
@gcohn2
Could you try removing the + sign from your album name? I'm interested to see if that's the character causing the problem.

right you were i renamed it and got rid of the "+" and now it works... so is this supposed to post to my fb wall? cause i don't see it there. or is that a later version?

It should post to your facebook wall if you add a comment to the Like as well. Facebook appears to be having some issues with their CDN as well. It has been up & down the last few days with the huge influx of data it's been receiving based on the popularity of all the new like buttons hammering across the web. Try hitting the like button and adding a comment you should see a post to your wall as when you do a url share from the status update.

i don't see how to add a comment to the like. i only see how to like... adding a comment and/or sharing would be great. am i just missing something?

It should pop up a small "Add comment" when you click like. It did when I was checking your gallery. Click the like button and tell me your result.

As a side note: my server node seems to have gone down so we may experience issues for a few moments while they bring it back up as facebook seems to complain when it doesn't have an application home.

very strange.. i don't get that 'add comment' popup.. i've tried in chrome and mozilla.. any other ideas why i'm not seeing it?