tas2580 / socialbuttons

phpBB Extension: Adds Social Media Buttons on each thread.

This is an extension for the phpBB forums software. You need an instalation of phpBB 3.1.x to use this.

DESCRIPTION

Adds Social Media Buttons on each thread. To protect the privacy of the users, requestets at the Social Media platforms will be made by the web server. The data will be cached to avoid too many requests. You can choose between 10 different styles for the buttons.

Supported Platforms:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Google+
• Linkedin

INSTALATION

To install this extension download it from here and upload the files in your forum under /ext/tas2580/socialbuttons. After that go to the Admin panel of your forum and navigate in to Customise -> Extension Management -> Extensions. Search this extension in the list of extensions and click on Enable.

SUPPORT

You can get support for this extension on phpbb.com or in german on phpbb.de. For more informations look at my Website.

Help to translate

If you use the extension in your forum and translated it therefor in your language, it would be nice if you would send me a pull request. Also it may be that existing translations after uptates of the extensions are incomplete. So you can help me if you complete or correct existing language files.

LICENSE

GNU General Public License v2

Automated Testing

We use automated unit tests to prevent regressions. Check out our travis build below:

socialbuttons's Issues

Twitter counter

No more counter for Twitter
https://blog.twitter.com/2015/hard-decisions-for-a-sustainable-platform

Query multible Domains

If someone changes his domain from domain.de to domain.com he will loose all his shares, it would be nice to query both domains and add the shares from both domains.

phpBB 3.2.x version

Hi @tas2580,

is this extension is compatible with phpBB 3.2.x ?

Buttons at top on mobile phones

Buttons at top will not be shown correct on mobile phones

Too much cache files

If we use the URL to identify a page we get a lot of cache files because every parameter and SID will generate a new cache file. It would be better to use the topic ID

Board logo doesn’t display in message on Facebook

Hi @tas2580,

if i share with Facebook button, the board logo is displayed the first time when i go on my Facebook profile. I come back to my Facebook profile it’s not showed.

An other user of my board hasn’t the board logo displayed at all.