Facebook "Like" button on every product page?

[scrap]

Hi
I've added AddThis on every product page (which was pretty easy), but I also want to add the new "Like button" from Facebook. You simply put a single iframe line where you want, and you're good to go.

Read more: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/...e/plugins/like

Here's the example code:

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://example.com"
        scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
        style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe>

How do I get the href part to point to the page from which the visitor clicked? like href=http://www.mysite.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=543&products_id=4 without having to hard code it?

[niccol]

Something like:

<?php
echo zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page((int)$_GET['products_id']),'cPath= '.(int)$_GET['cPath'].' &products_id=' . (int)$_GET['products_id']);
?>

haven't tested this but it should work

[trisha1581]

Does that line of code go where the iframe ref is?

[trisha1581]

I have both the iframe and the piece of code that niccol added, but can not seem to get it right. I have added the code prior to the iframe...nothing, the code as the ref in the iframe...nothing!.

Not really sure how to put this together to make it work.

[niccol]

On a product_info page that code will produce this in the html:

http://domain.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath= 65 &products_id=181

Or whatever the details are. It will produce that wherever you put it as long as it is not already in <?php ?> tags in which case you'd need to remove the ones in my code.

So you could just put that code somewhere at the top of the page and you will see what it is outputing.

What you actually want to do is this:

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=<?php echo zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page((int)$_GET['products_id']),'cPath= '.(int)$_GET['cPath'].' &products_id=' . (int)$_GET['products_id']); ?>"
        scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
        style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe>

But looking at it again I am not sure that the whole plan is going to work in that I am not sure the system will deal with the dynamic URL anyway. What that means is that I am not sure how the system will deal with the bit after the question mark. It might or it might not.

[trisha1581]

Nick,

Thank you so much that worked !!!!

[scrap]

On a product_info page that code will produce this in the html:

http://domain.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath= 65 &products_id=181

Or whatever the details are. It will produce that wherever you put it as long as it is not already in <?php ?> tags in which case you'd need to remove the ones in my code.

So you could just put that code somewhere at the top of the page and you will see what it is outputing.

What you actually want to do is this:

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=<?php echo zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page((int)$_GET['products_id']),'cPath= '.(int)$_GET['cPath'].' &products_id=' . (int)$_GET['products_id']); ?>"
        scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
        style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe>

But looking at it again I am not sure that the whole plan is going to work in that I am not sure the system will deal with the dynamic URL anyway. What that means is that I am not sure how the system will deal with the bit after the question mark. It might or it might not.

Excellent, it works! Now I only have to position it...

For reference (if someone else want to do it), the file you're looking for is includes --> templates --> YOUR TEMPLATE --> template --> tpl_product_info_display.php.

[solidrock]

It puts the Like button there fine, and says that I "Like" it when I click it, but then it gives me an error message, and when I click on it, it says, "The page at http://mysite.com/index.php?main_page=product_info could not be reached."

Any ideas how to fix that?

On a product_info page that code will produce this in the html:

http://domain.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath= 65 &products_id=181

Or whatever the details are. It will produce that wherever you put it as long as it is not already in <?php ?> tags in which case you'd need to remove the ones in my code.

So you could just put that code somewhere at the top of the page and you will see what it is outputing.

What you actually want to do is this:

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=<?php echo zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page((int)$_GET['products_id']),'cPath= '.(int)$_GET['cPath'].' &products_id=' . (int)$_GET['products_id']); ?>"
        scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
        style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe>

But looking at it again I am not sure that the whole plan is going to work in that I am not sure the system will deal with the dynamic URL anyway. What that means is that I am not sure how the system will deal with the bit after the question mark. It might or it might not.

[yonghs]

...

What you actually want to do is this:

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=<?php echo zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page((int)$_GET['products_id']),'cPath= '.(int)$_GET['cPath'].' &products_id=' . (int)$_GET['products_id']); ?>"
        scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
        style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe>

But looking at it again I am not sure that the whole plan is going to work in that I am not sure the system will deal with the dynamic URL anyway. What that means is that I am not sure how the system will deal with the bit after the question mark. It might or it might not.

Yup, seems to work only if the site is using SEF urls.

The default URLs with the character "&" in the url will cause error on the Facebook side.

Any idea how to overcome this (without installing the SEF add-on)? Thanks.

[becks3636]

Hi,

Does anyone know how I can put a facebook 'like' button in my shop. Ive tried Google-ing it, but none of these solutions seem to work, and also entering the code myself doesn't work.


Thanks.