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The Facebook plugin for Joomla 1.0.15 has been modified so that it works on Virtuemart 1.0.15 items too. This means that you can have a facebook "share this" button on each of your virtuemart products. Clicking on the facebook button opens a "share this" link where the visitor can comment favourably on the product selected.

The plugin takes the form of a Joomla 1.0.15 mambot. The changes have just been made to the code that means it will operate on all content items and allow you to add a facebook share button anywhere on the page by means of moscode between { facebook }{ /facebook } parentheses.

You will need to make a simple change to the shop.product_details.php to incorporate some new code in order to make Joomla plugins appear in Virtuemart items. These details are provided as part of the mambot.

It has been tested on two viruemart shops so far and seems to be working successfully. You can download it at the downloads area of this site.

You can see it fully working on this page top right. Of course this is not a Virtuemart item but it works on content too!

The following is the moscode that you will need to enter into your content in order to put the facebook share this button anywhere else in your content.{ facebook }{ /facebook }It will also appear automatically at the top of each content item.

It can be found here for immediate download:

http://lightquick.co.uk/jdownloads/facebook-share-this-button-for-joomla-1.0.html

Note this is the deprecated (obsolete) old Facebook API method. Facebook will be turning it off soon. The new mambot that allow you to use the new Facebook iframe/xfbml methodsis below:

Facebook-like-this-button-for-joomla-1.0.15 version 2.0

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