@erb
Alright, just as I suspected it worked correctly here, so there's got to be something that your hosting provider is blocking with the server config. You can see your image page in action here on my devsite.

I'll take a look and see if I can find a work around for it, but my guess is that your host blocks outbound request via curl etc and that is stuffing the plugins up.

The way the plugins work is that the javascript is loaded, then when a call is made, it pings facebook for their content, which then generates a dynamic iframe. So something in that process is being blocked.

Edit:
You should also contact your host and see if this is something that can be enabled.

My site will have a nominal downtime as I transition from a shared hosting package to a new VPS host. Will update this thread once things are back in running order.

Hey guys and/or gals,

I've transferred VPS and everything appears to be operational as planned with no interruption in service. However, as we all know, sometimes sneaky bugs happen when you attempt full site migrations. I changed from a shared hosting to a dedicated VPS, domain and everything stayed the same.

If you run into any errors on the site, please let me know!

hi,

i just downloaded your zenFBLike plugin. it worked right away. I have just a remark, looks like you add a "fb-root" div but you close it immediately. Would it not be more accurate to close it after all the FB scripts (i guess it was intended this way but i am certainly wrong)? Anyway, thanks for the plugin.

frank.

ps: sorry for the double post. i didn't pay attention to your last comment in the other thread.

having another look at the zenFBLike plugin, i noticed that the 'show_faces' option is not taken into account. so it is always set to true.

and looks like the 'layout' option has been left on the side too.

also no matter if someone liked the page or not, i still get the 'Be the first of your friends to like this' message. how do you get the 'N people like this' message like on your zenFBLike page ? thanks for your help.

frank

I think this plugin suite was made before that was introduced (well, I am not using Facebook so...)

well the options are there in the plugin interface, it's just that nothing is really done with them. i think this piece of code
`
if ($layout == 1) {
$zenFBLike_html .= ' layout="button_count"';
}
if ($faces == 1) {
$zenFBLike_html .= ' show_faces="false"';
}
`
should be added in zenFBLike function right after the `$zenFBLike_html .= '<fb:like href="' . $url .'"';` line. but the plugin's author should definitively cross-check this because i am not a facebook expert.

Hey frankm,

Sorry for the late reply, real life has been hectic. Changing from a night job to a day-time government job... whew what a change. I'll take a look and get back to you right away.

zenFBLike update -

v0.1.2

* bugfix to zenFBLike html output to incorporate all options. It appears the initial save I had made with this was not uploaded properly. (Thanks to FrankM in the support thread for pointing out the oversight!)
* addition of the "Box Count" option for layout giving another layout style for the likebutton.

Info, download, demo HERE

Hello again!

After dusting off the old keyboard and taking a look at the changes to Zenphoto, I realized it was time to do some updates to the zenFBSuite of plugins.

Notable changes:
* Update to plug-in version numbering. Plug-in versions will now reflect the version of Zenphoto the plug-in was tested with.
* Change to meta key loading to migrate from old addpluginscript method to Zenphoto's new zp_register_filter 'theme_head' section.
* Better commenting of code.
[b]*Requirement to register for a facebook app_id.[/b]

While I tried to avoid this last bullet, Facebook has made changes to their plug-in api that will require it in the future. I figured now is as good a time as any to require it instead of you losing functionality later down the road.

I have posted step-by-step instructions on how to create your app_id for use with the plug-ins.

For information, demos, and download of the suite of plugins, please visit this link.

"Show Faces" doesn't show in Like;

Hi, I'm on Zenphoto 1.3.1 [5736] and the v1.3.1.2-6100 plugin suite; could this have any bearing on why the faces don't show? (plugin option is turned on). I will upgrade only if you say it matters.

Also I don't know how to get the Activity plugin to display custom inline thumbnails (it displays stock thumbnails for .mp4.php terminated links); how did you do it on your own site?

You can see the above behaviors here:
http://www.radikal.ro/gallery/video-production/cupa-liceelor-la-street-dance-2010/101012-CLSD2010-promo-30s.mp4.php

thanks.

Hey radikal, I visited your site and the faces show when clicking the like button for me. I'll do a bit more digging on this though as when I went back to test it on my dev site I noticed that the option switch itself doesn't appear to make a difference for me, showing faces every time.

As far as the thumnails, those are chosen by the OG:image meta key. Looking at your site I see that the meta-keys in general aren't loading. I believe it's because the theme_head option for the zp_register_filter wasn't introduced yet in the version of zenphoto to be sure.

However, when the metakeys aren't present the Facebook api tries to generate the thumbnails, site name, article name etc from what it scrapes from the site. It's showing that default thumb because it's not finding an image suitable.

Try upgrading to the latest nightly, and that will at least solve the meta-keys portion and get us moving a step in the right direction.

Alright, it appears that somehow I managed to update the headers on the old version of the file. I've updated this to the newest settings again and managed to (I hope) rid myself of any old development versions.

Head over to here and that will fix your issue with the show-faces option. As well it fixes the issue with the layout options.

Once you upgrade to the latest ZP we can take a look at the thumbnail part for your zenFBActivity/recommend boxes

The theme_head filter is new and will appear with Zenphoto 1.3.2.

thanks Micheal, your turnaround is better than some paid support
I've applied the fix (more like ran diff on the files and patched mine with the few new lines of code), unfortunately it makes no difference for me. If I'm not logged in to FB I don't see any faces, and when I'm logged in I see only mine.

What's the normal behavior when one is logged in? show all faces who also Liked or only those of friends who also Liked? (I know this is not a question for you proper).
If the latter, it may be because I have no "friends" amongst the other Likes.
Still, you probably don't have any of them as friends either, so how come you saw the faces? there, I busted my own speculation.

I will update to the latest nightly soon, hopefully that's the key to solving this.

You're correct, you will only see the faces of people that you have set as friends on Facebook. Initially it was wide open, but Facebook made changes almost immediately. So you'll see the faces of you and your friends, as well as the names, but for anyone that's not friends with you on facebook, they'll be thrown into the "others" category. It's something to do with Facebook restructuring their privacy stuff, happened right at the same time.

After some major technological glitches with my VPS hosting, coupled with some horrible timing on my part, I've restored my zenphoto site back to full proper working order. The download links for the most current versions of all the zenFBSuite of plug-ins should be functioning properly.

This "unexpected downtime" of the site however allowed me to tweak the zenFBComments plug-in to allow hiding of the likebutton that is included at the top of the comment box.

[i]Please note, these plug-ins are only tested with the nightlies at this point in preparation for the release of 1.3.2.[/i]

Information, download, & demos can be found here.

Thanks for the update. I have updated all links.

Hello again all!

I'm wondering if those who are using the zenFBComments plug-in would find it useful to receive email notification when someone posts a comment using the plug-in.

It there is a demand I will work at incorporating this functionality into the released version of the plug-in.

With the official release of Zenphoto 1.4.0 I've dusted off the old coding fingers and put the final touches on the updated zenFBSuite of plugins. Highlights of the changes include:

* Added requirement of zenFBcommon plug-in to be enabled. Plug-in functionality will be disabled unless you enable the zenFBcommon plug-in.
* zenFBSuite of plug-ins option interface updated to adhere to Zenphoto 1.4.0's new performance enhancements.
* zenFBComments can be disabled for all Album/Image/Page/News pages via admin options.
* zenFBComments now adheres to whether comments are enabled/disabled per article/page as designated via the admin interface by checking "Comments On".
* Moved OpenGraph keys from zenFBSuite plug-ins to zenFBcommon.
* Added option interface for specification of application ID & admin ID.
* Plug-in now distributed as pack with other zenFBSuite plug-ins.

Information, Demo, & Download available: here.

Happy New Year!