File Name: (MT22) Share IT!
File Submitter: .Peter
File Submitted: 25 Nov 2010
File Updated: 25 Feb 2011
File Category: Hooks and Plugins

Share IT!
Social Networks are a great tool. Many users are referrals from a social network. IPB has in place methods of sharing things to a Social Network, but often they are hard to find and require scrolling to places.

So I introduce to you all Share IT!. Share IT! is a highly customizable script that adds a "sticky" button to the side of your forum that is visible from any page at any time. Sticky means that the button stays in the same place and will just follow the user as they scroll down pages.



Features
This hook has many Administrator settings allowing you to fine tune the hooks as you feel necessary. Some settings include: (and you can view the screenshot)
Greeting - Add your own personal greeting that people will see when the click the share button
Share URL - Specify a URL to "autoshare", for example instead of allowing your users to share the page they are on you can set it so it shares only the root URL of the forum
Share Title - Don't want to share the title of the page? Specify your own!!
Share Options - Do you have personal biases against some social networks? Well here you can disallow them!

As you can see this hook is highly needed as it can help your community grow!

So get out there and Share IT!

Click here to download this file

Seems like a nice concept, so someone doesn't have to scroll all the way down just to share something. Especially annoying when it's a long page. In one of your screenshots, the side sticky is noticably poked out in such a way that it can cover up stuff. Is there some way to put it on a diet so it is more thin on the side? Enough to be noticable but not enough to really cover anything?

Is there a way to reduce the width of the popup or make it show on top of everything else? It's displaying beneath other hooks on my pages:



Other than that, it's great.

Seems like a nice concept, so someone doesn't have to scroll all the way down just to share something. Especially annoying when it's a long page. In one of your screenshots, the side sticky is noticably poked out in such a way that it can cover up stuff. Is there some way to put it on a diet so it is more thin on the side? Enough to be noticable but not enough to really cover anything?

I'll see what I can do.. maybe put it on a hover so the button extends when hovered over.

Is there a way to reduce the width of the popup or make it show on top of everything else? It's displaying beneath other hooks on my pages:

Other than that, it's great.

I'll see what I can do.. You have the on a flash box... I've noticed that flash doesn't like to work well with jQuery modal windows in the past. But I'll see what I can do. I'll send you a PM when its updated since you purchased it :D

I got error on your demo forums:

Fatal error: Call to a member function promoteToArticle() on a non-object in /home2/veonstyl/public_html/neen/admin/applications_addon/ips/ccs/sources/promote.php on line 160

I'll send you a PM when its updated since you purchased it :D

Replied :)

Hi Peter, got a couple member saying that when mod is active the shoutbox is just constantly loading and they cant shout, i've tried in both FF and IE but cannot replicate the problem personally. Any idea's what may cause this with some people ? was wondering if it may be javascript related.

Grateful of any ideas to try :)

I got error on your demo forums:

Fatal error: Call to a member function promoteToArticle() on a non-object in /home2/veonstyl/public_html/neen/admin/applications_addon/ips/ccs/sources/promote.php on line 160

I wouldn't doubt it lol.. Its a test board and as such I've corrupted many files. promoteToArticle just means I didn't install IP.Content correctly.

Hi Peter, got a couple member saying that when mod is active the shoutbox is just constantly loading and they cant shout, i've tried in both FF and IE but cannot replicate the problem personally. Any idea's what may cause this with some people ? was wondering if it may be javascript related.

Grateful of any ideas to try :)

Could you send me a link to your forum with the shoutbox? My test board doesn't have shoutbox so there's a small chance that might be true but I can't see it being true.

sent pm m8 :)

Ok a few things.. in the process of trying to figure out why the box couldn't show over the flash objects I discovered that it also had issues showing over textboxes (This has been fixed now, it was a CSS issue on my end).

@northwestbikers I know how to fix your flash issue... its something that has to be changed to your flash. Just flash has issues working with jQuery.

Hi,

I've installed the mod correctly and it says it's Enabled, but for some reason it doesn't show on my forum? any idea?

Link to my forum is - http://www.thefootballroom.co.uk/

Thanks

@Radhi I responded to your PM.

Radhi's issue has been fixed. The custom skin he was using didn't have the if statement block that the hook required to run.

@northwestbikers I know how to fix your flash issue... its something that has to be changed to your flash. Just flash has issues working with jQuery.

Hi Peter, are you able to elaborate further?

Hi Peter, are you able to elaborate further?

Of course. With flash in the <embed> command to fix it so flash will correctly reflect z-index properties you need to add the command:

wmode="transparent"

so in the end you would end up with something like

<embed src="http://linktovideo.com" wmode="transparent" ... (Other commands) />

That will fix it.

Northwestbikers if you're not sure how to edit your hook thats showing the video let me know and I can edit it for you.

Proud to introduce a sneak peak for Share IT! version 2.0. Share IT! 2.0 features the following:

• Share IT! Mini - At the suggestion of Wolfie I'm working a version that has a smaller button. You can flip between the two versions.
• The greeting now allows you to input some variables such as {SHARE_USER} to personalize the box.
• AddThis integration - I'm adding the ability to sync your AddThis account with Share IT! so you can track how many people have used Share IT!

So without further ado here are a few screenshots of the ACP.

Nice stuff Peter :D

I am sorry to say this, but your mod doesn't work properly with Facebook, it has the same problem with the IPB implementation as discussed here: http://community.invisionpower.com/tracker/issue-26033-share-this-link-via-facebook-not-functioning-properly/

Actually so far no plugin/addon etc. seems to work properly with Facebook creating thumbnails from the images in a topic. :(

Thanks for the reply, Peter. I look forward to the smaller button :)

I am sorry to say this, but your mod doesn't work properly with Facebook, it has the same problem with the IPB implementation as discussed here: [url="http://community.invisionpower.com/tracker/issue-26033-share-this-link-via-facebook-not-functioning-properly/"]http://community.inv...oning-properly/[/url]

Actually so far no plugin/addon etc. seems to work properly with Facebook creating thumbnails from the images in a topic. :(

And that's not something that I am able to fix since its embedded into IPB it is using IPB's metaimage tag which is something that I can't overload. So its not a bug on the hook, its an IPB bug.

And that's not something that I am able to fix since its embedded into IPB it is using IPB's metaimage tag which is something that I can't overload. So its not a bug on the hook, its an IPB bug.

Very true, a lot of users are complaining about this bug, but IPB is not bothered to fix it so far. On top of that, they are blaming Facebook about this problem! :lol:

Any update on this hook Peter ?

Any update on this hook Peter ?

No not yet.. I had to take some time off for Finals week at school and then was hired to do some custom IP.Content work so once I finish that (I'm bringing a hook with me from that project too) I'll finish the updates to Share IT! plus release a new hook.

no worries m8, thanks for lettin me know :)

Just purchased this! Looks great...and anxiously awaiting 2.0, and would like to make these suggestions for 2.0 since I cannot use the way it's currently working:

- Ability to tell the floating button how far down from the top of the page to appear (its overlaying right over my logo!!)
- Ability to user different image color(s)

Thanks