social-media-like

I looked on SO, here, a few other places & ... cluelessness set's in. What is the structure of the Facebook " Like " Button found all over websites ? Is it a Social Bookmarking, Browser Button kind ? Is there a step by step process (without using FB Api) to make my own kind of button. How to design & implement a Like Button ? I want my own button with similar functionality as FB but NOT related or developed on their platform! I am trying to input this in iWeb'09 as a html widget. To answer your question consider what happens with buttons and then go into like buttons. Pressing a button

How to make a 'like' button for each post without going on permalink page? I mean, even in the homepage, which script can I use to have something like the heart on this page? (mouseover the photos, there's a heart to like the post) From the page, they're using the javascript: $('a.like-link').click(function() { var post = $(this).closest('.post'); var id = post.attr('id'); var oath = post.attr('rel').slice(-8); var like = 'http://www.tumblr.com/like/'+oath+'?id='+id; $('#likeit').attr('src', like); } So post is just the HTML element of the post, they then simply get the id of that post and the

I installed the acts_as_votable gem, it works in the console like it should (like it says in the documentation). So my question is how to set up a form for upvote and downvote buttons? or can they simply be links? here is the documentation: github.com/ryanto/acts_as_votable/blob/master/README.markdown I have a user and a picture model; the user is supposed to be able to like the picture. code from the picture view, where the buttons should be: <% for picture in @pictures %> <p> <%= image_tag picture.image_url(:thumb).to_s %> </p> <%= picture.created_at.strftime("%a, %d %b. %Y") %>, by <%= link

I have a Ruby on Rails project with a model User and a model Content , among others. I wanted to make possible for a user to "like" a content, and I've done that with the acts_as_votable gem. At the moment, the liking system is working but I'm refreshing the page every time the like button (link_to) is pressed. I'd like to do this using Ajax, in order to update the button and the likes counter without the need to refresh the page. In my Content -> Show view, this is what I have: <% if user_signed_in? %> <% if current_user.liked? @content %> <%= link_to "Dislike", dislike_content_path(@content)

I'm trying to use the new Tumblr like buttons within Infinite Scroll (allowing your theme a like button on individual Tumblr posts from the homepage) they work for the first 15 posts of the first 'page' but then as soon as it loads another page the like button stops working. These are the instructions given from Tumblr on the Docs page: Function: Tumblr.LikeButton.get_status_by_page(n) Description: Call this function after requesting a new page of Posts. Takes the page number that was just loaded as an integer. Function: Tumblr.LikeButton.get_status_by_post_ids([n,n,n]) Description: Request