Facebook Likes Question

[Booth]

We're currently using IPB3 to power our website and as you can see we've allowed "Facebook Likes".

http://www.pleasedsheep.com/forums/...-the-ukfc/page__pid__69572__st__18#entry69572

Now then, if I was to convert to xenForo at some point would the "Likes" count be kept for the corresponding forum thread on the xenForo installation? Or would it start from zero again?

 

[Mike]

That really depends on FB's implementation, but it's likely URL related so it would go to 0.

 

[Booth]

Noooooooooooooooo

 

[David Thomas]

I'm 80% certain it's URL-related, so unless you replicate your URL structure from the IPB installation, it will reset to 0.

 

[Kier]

Let's ask Scott

 

[Brandon_R]

Let's ask Scott

Hehe

Spoiler:






for those of you not following the scene, Scott is a former vBulletin dev who now programs for facebook

 

[Booth]

Spoiler:






for those of you not following the scene, Scott is a former vBulletin dev who now programs for facebook

Thanks for that, was wondering what that was about

Is it possible to replicate the url structure of IPB in xenForo admin? Or would that need custom coding?

 

[Scott]

It's based on the href attribute passed in to the like button, if they were able to set that to match the old URL then it would work.

 

[Kier]

I've talked to Scott about this, and the only way to preserve the Like count from the imported board would be to pass the original URL of the thread on the IPB / vBulletin installation into the Facebook iframe. Not sure how feasible that's going to be.

 

[Kier]

Oh, here he is