I have trolled the net + Stackoverflow and have not found an adequate answer to this question and before I start the trial and error process of finding my own solution, I thought I would turn to the Stackoverflow braintrust and see if there was already a successful implementation.
Specifically, I have an AJAX powered page that degrades properly for non-javascript browsers + SEO. Each click in the AJAX version can be represented by a unique URL. What I want to do is to dynamically change the HREF of the button. I do understand that this tag is converted to standard HTML at runtime (namely into a nasty table / iframe layout).
I was just wondering if anyone had any insight as to how to implement this FB like button onto AJAX powered pages?
Cheers in advance :)
EDIT:
What do you think of this method I just hacked together? See any huge problems with it?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
<script src="JS/jquery/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
$("document").ready
(
function ()
{
CreateNewLikeButton("http://www.yahoo.com")
$("a#ChangeToGoogle").click
(
function (e)
{
e.preventDefault();
CreateNewLikeButton("http://www.google.ca")
}
);
}
);
function CreateNewLikeButton(url)
{
var elem = $(document.createElement("fb:like"));
elem.attr("href", url);
$("div#Container").empty().append(elem);
FB.XFBML.parse($("div#Container").get(0));
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<a id="ChangeToGoogle" href="#">Change To Google</a>
<div id="Container">
<fb:like href="http://www.NEVER_LINK_TO_THIS_12345.com"></fb:like>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Source: Tips4all
SIMPLE SOLUTION
ReplyDeleteJust parse trigger the parse function when load complete.
If you’re using jQuery, there’s a real easy and slick solution to this problem:
$(document).ajaxComplete(function(){
try{
FB.XFBML.parse();
}catch(ex){}
});
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
This is the solution I ended up going with:
ReplyDelete<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
<script src="JS/jquery/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
$("document").ready
(
function ()
{
CreateNewLikeButton("http://www.yahoo.com")
$("#ChangeToGoogle").click
(
function (e)
{
e.preventDefault();
CreateNewLikeButton("http://www.google.ca")
}
);
}
);
function CreateNewLikeButton(url)
{
var elem = $(document.createElement("fb:like"));
elem.attr("href", url);
$("#Container").empty().append(elem);
FB.XFBML.parse($("#Container").get(0));
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<a id="ChangeToGoogle" href="#">Change To Google</a>
<div id="Container">
<fb:like href="http://www.NEVER_LINK_TO_THIS_12345.com"></fb:like>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
This is how I handled this situation when I ran into it - seems to work well.
ReplyDelete// Set Facebook Like Button with jQuery
setFBLikeButtons = function (container,url,send,layout,width,show_faces,font) {
// Set Default Args
if(!send) { send = "false"; }
if(!layout) { layout = "button_count"; }
if(!width) { width = "100"; }
if(!show_faces) { show_faces = "false"; }
if(!font) { font = "arial"; }
$(container).empty(); // Remove current like button
$(container).html('<fb:like href="'+url+'" send="'+send+'" layout="'+layout+'" width="'+width+'" show_faces="'+show_faces+'" font="'+font+'"></fb:like>');
FB.XFBML.parse(); // This is the magical syrup
}