[contribution] Social Bookmarks - Del.icio.us, Digg, Etc

[sgostelow]

Social Bookmarks v1.0 - del.icio.us, digg, etc

 

Date: 29th June 2007

Author: Shaun Gostelow

Support Thread: This thread!

 

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What is the Social Bookmarks OSCommerce contribution?

 

This small contribution to OScommerce adds links at the bottom of product pages so that users on your site can bookmark the page with a social bookmarking service such as del.icio.us or digg. This is a great way to help with SEO efforts as your product pages should get lots of inbound links.

 

If you have additional services (Google Bookmarks, etc) you would like to add to this contribution please feel free to add more, or donate to encourage further development.

 

Have fun...

[sgostelow]

Contribution download link:

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,5261

[Jamez]

Contribution download link:

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,5261

 

Thanks, it seems to work well, but I think you forgot 2 images that are coded in but not in the package.

Anyone who cant work out how to add them etc shouldnt be using osc though.

[sgostelow]

Doh! Thanks for spotting that jamez. Glad to hear it worked for you.

 

I've uploaded a new version (v1.1) with the del.icio.us and digg icon images. I've also added a missing space before the del.icio.us text. You can download this from:

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,5261

 

Note: There is a duplicate of the contribution in the credit modules section. Please ignore this. I've let the mods know and asked for it to be removed.

 

Cheers

 

Shaun

[sgostelow]

Social Bookmarks v1.2 contribution for OSCommerce released.

 

Changes:

• Added support for Google Bookmarks and Yahoo myWeb.
  
• Bookmark sites now launch as separate browser window/tab.
  

Link to contribution:

 

Social Bookmarks for OSCommerce v1.2

[gregy]

works great .. thanx!

[pkirbyau]

Great addition thanks.

 

I use CRE LOADED so had to make a few quick changes:

1. /catalog/product_info.php is /catalog/templates/content/product_info.tpl.php

2. Had to remove leading / in front of images in social_bookmarks.php file

ie <img src=\"images/yahoomyweb-small.png\" alt=\"Add to Yahoo myWeb\" title=\"Add to Yahoo myWeb\" border=\"0\"> Add to Yahoo myWeb</a>

 

Incidentally, I notice that del.icio.us still opens window instead of new tab.

[Guest]

Made the tags such as title and alt show the product name to make it SEO friendly, and hopefully help keep pages out of supplemental results and make each ad more relevant even if it's just a slight increase. ;)

[mileage]

after installing version 1.3, an error came up.

"social_bookmarks.php on line 18"

 

after removing second <?php it worked.

 

should be

 

* @copyright Copyright 2007, Shaun Gostelow

* @author Shaun Gostelow

* @filesource

*/

echo "

[Guest]

Just installed this contribution. I changed it slightly by putting the icons in column_right. Everything works fine except the google bookmark link, the page loads to 92% and then jams, with a blank page. When I click refresh it loads perfectly. It’s strange it requires a refresh every time. Any ideas? code below is my google bookmark code:

 

<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk=" . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $product_info['products_id'], 'NONSSL') . "&title=" . $product_info['products_name'] . "\">
<img src=\"/images/google-bookmarks-small.gif\" alt=\"Google Bookmark " . $product_info['products_name'] . "\" </a>

 

 

Also is it possible to add an internet explorer icon that adds to user's browser favourites?

 

Thanks. :)

[Guest]

Just tested it with Firefox, works perfectly (no refresh needed). Tested with Internet Explorer 6, works perfectly (no refresh needed). The browser I use, Avant, doesn't work correctly (refresh is required to load google bookmark page). Not as big a problem I as first thought just strange. maybe I'll try updating Avant to latest version.

 

Would still love to know how to code in a IE icon with add to favourites.

 

David.

[Guest]

Just tested it with Firefox, works perfectly (no refresh needed). Tested with Internet Explorer 6, works perfectly (no refresh needed). The browser I use, Avant, doesn't work correctly (refresh is required to load google bookmark page). Not as big a problem I as first thought just strange. maybe I'll try updating Avant to latest version.

 

Would still love to know how to code in a IE icon with add to favourites.

 

David.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title></title>
<script language="JavaScript1.2" type="text/javascript">
function CreateBookmarkLink() {

title = "XXWebsite TitleXX"; 
url = "http://www.site.com/";

if (window.sidebar) { // Mozilla Firefox Bookmark
	window.sidebar.addPanel(title, url,"");
	window.location = 'http://www.site.com'
} else if( window.external ) { // IE Favorite
	window.location = 'http://www.site.com';
	window.external.AddFavorite( url, title); 
	}
else if(window.opera && window.print) { // Opera Hotlist
	window.location = 'http://www.site.com'
	return true; 
	}

}
</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="CreateBookmarkLink();">
</body>
</html>

 

put that in a page say, addtofav.html and bring it up in any browser. dunno if thats what you were looking for, but thats one way i do it. works from emails or whatever... as long as the link points to the page on your site.

[Trentide]

This is a very cool contribution!!! I only have one small problem. Does anyone know how I can fix this? I've already uploaded the pix in the images folder.

 

 

Thanks for your help!

 

Jason

[Trentide]

Hi Everyone! Can anyone tell me where this file should go?

 

Thumbs.db

 

I just put it in the images folder. Is this why it's not working for me?

 

Thanks for your help!!

 

jason

[Roaddoctor]

thumbs.db is a remnant created by windows, no need to upload it...

[Trentide]

Thanks for that Roaddoctor!

 

Any idea why my icons aren't showing up?

 

Thanks,

Jason

[Trentide]

I finally figured it out why I wasn't getting the images. I deleted the forward slash before "images" and had to change "catalog" to my actual url.

 

Hope this helps a newbie like me!

 

Jason

[warrenerjm]

I finally figured it out why I wasn't getting the images. I deleted the forward slash before "images" and had to change "catalog" to my actual url.

 

Hope this helps a newbie like me!

 

Jason

Hi Jason

 

I am still having a problem with this? :huh:

I cannot see my images either. I have tried removing the / before images in the /includes/modules/social_bookmarks.php but it made no difference. The image is pointing to catalog but shouldn't, so where did you amend the "catalog" to your actual url please because I cannot find catalog in any of thefiles?

 

Thanks

Julie

[warrenerjm]

Hi Jason

 

I am still having a problem with this? :huh:

I cannot see my images either. I have tried removing the / before images in the /includes/modules/social_bookmarks.php but it made no difference. The image is pointing to catalog but shouldn't, so where did you amend the "catalog" to your actual url please because I cannot find catalog in any of thefiles?

 

Thanks

Julie

Problem solved!

The newest upload solved an error & introduced one as well!! That file has catalog which I must have uploaded, but the original which I must have looked at didn't. It didn't say it was adding catalog too...but just proves you have to check & then double check!!

[Victor Wise]

I respect this contribution quite a bit as I would be lying through my teeth if I were to tell you that Google doesn't factor in social networks in their rankings. And its intensifying.

 

Quick question about this contribution; hopefully someone will indulge me here.

 

If I just wanted to install social bookmarking features on one or 2 pages of a 30 page commerce site, and these are custom php pages (not product pages), is this contribution worthwhile for me too look at?

[passion84play]

Great contrib and really easy to install!!

 

Not looked in detail at the code as I'm trying to do loads of other stuff as well but has anyone got this working with other social sites - facebook etc?

[finjay]

I use OSCMax and had to do the same thing. Has anyone added other sites like Reddit? What's the best way to do that?

 

Great addition thanks.

 

I use CRE LOADED so had to make a few quick changes:

1. /catalog/product_info.php is /catalog/templates/content/product_info.tpl.php

2. Had to remove leading / in front of images in social_bookmarks.php file

ie <img src=\"images/yahoomyweb-small.png\" alt=\"Add to Yahoo myWeb\" title=\"Add to Yahoo myWeb\" border=\"0\"> Add to Yahoo myWeb</a>

 

Incidentally, I notice that del.icio.us still opens window instead of new tab.

Edited February 4, 2008 by finjay

[paulc010]

Added a version 1.3a - Great contribution btw - was about to start writing one myself when I came across it!

 

Added some more links, and modified the code to remove the need for all those escape characters.

 

Contains:

 

del.icio.us

Digg

Google Bookmark

Yahoo myWeb

Furl

Squidoo

StumbleUpon

 

Additional images included.

 

Paul

[jan64]

Hi,

 

great contribution, is it possible to add msn.nl and ekudos.nl to the list?

 

Thanks.

 

kind regards,

Jan

[d4funky1]

Hi,

 

Great Contrib - just what i've been looking for.

 

Is there any chance you can either teach us how to add new sites to the social_bookmarks.php file or add these to it please:

 

Facebook

StumbleUpon

Slashdot

Netscape / Propeller

Technorati

Newsvine

Blogmarks

Blinklist

Diigo

Folkd

Blinkbits

Netvouz

 

In this social marketing web2.0 or whatever they want to call it - the more the merrier.

 

Many Thanks

D4