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Facebook comments won't accept {$baseurl}


I have manually installed facebook comments on my adult video script (non adult content), but keep getting an error message below the commentbox:

Warning: http://invalid.invalid/video/%7B$video.VID%7D/%7B$video.title%7D is unreachable.

I put this in my file:

<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>(function(d, s, id) {
  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
  js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=MYAPPID";
  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>
<div style="padding-bottom:10px;"><img src="/templates/frontend/default/images/facebook-comment.gif"></div>
<div class="fb-comments"  data-href="{$baseurl}/video/{$video.VID}/{$video.title}" data-num-posts="20" data-width="990" data-colorscheme="dark"></div>

as per instructions on avs forums, but all it does it produce that error.

Any help appreciated!


Solution

  • Your template (?) tags {$baseurl}, {$video.VID} and {$video.title} doesn't get resolved and used as is in the final HTML used by comments widget resulting in a wrong URL.

    You should ensure that your final URL in data-href will be correct and not something literally like this {$baseurl}/video/{$video.VID}/{$video.title}.

    Update:
    It's really not clear why this should work at all, you doesn't describe anything within your question that will replace {$baseurl} with real URL...

    If all you want is having comments social plugin for current page you can simply omit data-href property:

    <div class="fb-comments" data-num-posts="20" data-width="990" data-colorscheme="dark">/div>
    

    But if you need it to appear on other pages you'll need to use URL associated with comments as data-href. It should be relatively easy but depends on what language/framework you use to get the correct URL in place...