I am trying to add text to a facebook share link after it pops up. I have looked through the facebook dev site and searched online and the only thing that looked like it might remotely work was adding in meta tags for the Graph API. But I couldn't get them to work or display anything.
Below is the code for the button
<script>
function fbs_click() {
u=location.href;
t='Where is your kind of crowd? Ask StreetPotato';
window.open('http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'&t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');
return false;
}
</script>
<a rel="nofollow" href="#"
class="fb_share_button social" onclick="return fbs_click()"
target="_blank"
style="text-decoration:none;"
title='Follow us on Facebook'>
<%=image_tag "social/facebook.png", alt:"Follow us on Facebook"%>
</a>
If anyone has any insight or idea how to add in default text, like a hash-tag into the share text box it would be awesome. Thanks for reading.
-Alan
In general, you should not pre-populate any of the Facebook social dialogs that will post on behalf of a user.
See IV.2 of the Platform Policy doc:
"You must not pre-fill any of the fields associated with the following products, unless the user manually generated the content earlier in the workflow: Stream stories (user_message parameter for Facebook.streamPublish and FB.Connect.streamPublish, and message parameter for stream.publish), Photos (caption), Videos (description), Notes (title and content), Links (comment), and Jabber/XMPP"
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I've tried to find a direct link to a check-in box in facebook.
This is the code that I found, on https://touch.facebook.com/Scoutsgroep.VZW.De.zwaluw/, I have tried to put the code on a website (wordpress) but that doesn't create a direct link to check*in on the page.
<a class="_55i1 _58a0 touchable" data-store="{"action":"\/page\/checkin\/?id=315057520648","inputname":"status","targetid":1093893470,"pagename":"Scoutsgroep VZW de zwaluw","pageid":315057520648,"placeholder":"What are you doing?","composertitle":"Check In","pinplace":true,"forceasync":true,"log_data":{"under_more_button":true,"page_id":315057520648,"source":null,"referrer":null,"platform":"mtouch"},"event_name":"tapped_check_in","module_name":"pages_public_view","nativeClick":true}" href="#" role="button" data-sigil="touchable touchable page_checkin m-pages-log-event"><span class="_55sr">Check In</span></a>
Later on I would like to use the created link to make a qr-code that automaticaly checks-in to the facebook page
As far as I know, there's no direct link for a check in. Facebook doesn't want people accidentally / maliciously being checked in to a place.
I suggest that you use the URL you have, put it into a QR code and let the user decide whether they want to check in.
I need a social media plugin just for FB. I need big share buttons for FB. I have seen it in several websites but I do not know which one it is.
I leave this link to show you what I am talking about (big FB buttons at the beginning and ending of the article):
http://www.viralnova.com/animals-eating-ice-cream/
Any idea?
There's no secret sauce for making big like (that's not a like button, that's share button) button it all comes down to basic knowledge in Facebook developers tools ...
Facebook has the Sharer which accept the GET parameter u which is the URL you want to share on your timeline, on a friend's wall or even in a private message ...
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You can create a new element or wrapper for your share button I will just use <a> because they seems quick and easy to use for this purpose.
<a class="fsl fsl-facebook" data-href="{URL_to_Share}" href="#">
<span class="fa-facebook fa-icons fa-lg"></span>
<span class="sc-label">Share on Facebook</span>
</a>
pay attention to data-href attribute as you should replace it with the URL you want to share
next we need some JavaScript (jQuery) to make our share button do something
$('.fsl-facebook').click(function(e){ // target all elements with fsl-facebook class in the DOM
e.preventDefault(); // prevent scrolling to top or bottom, because href is set to #
var href = $(this).attr('data-href'); // get URL from the data-href
window.open('https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=' + encodeURIComponent(href), "", "width=800, height=350"); // pop up a new window, it's prefered to urlencode the URL because of 2nd & 3rd GET parameter that can be found in some URLs (?a=1&b=2&c=3)
});
DEMO
I am trying to create a Facebook share option for my blog articles, and it works but it doesn't take the article text or image, but the first image and text on the (single page) website. How can I change my share code so that it will use the article's image and text from where I click the FB share button?
This is the template for the blog article, with the FB share code included:
<div class="contentLeft">
<div class="roundimage">
<a href="[[+roundImage:phpthumbof=`h=750&zc=1`]]" class="colorbox" title="[[+roundImageCaption]]"><img class="round"
src="[[+roundImage:phpthumbof=`w=170&h=170&zc=1&q=95`]]" alt="[[+roundImageCaption]]" /></a>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">function fbs_click() {u=location.href;t=document.title;window.open('http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'&t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');return false;}</script>
<h4 class="blue" style="margin-bottom:10px; margin-top:0;">[[+articleHeadline]]</h4>
<p class="datetext">[[+datetimeText]]</p>
<p class="readmoretext">[[+articleText]]</p>
<div class="divider"></div>
</div>
I hope you can help! Thank you!
It should be enough to make sure that the article page, ie the link that you are sharing, embeds the correct og:image and og:description. You only share the link with the share button, and facebook will embed the link and look in it for the proper data.
Update:
I guess you're not using the articles package to create the blog? If you are you already have individual pages even if you're not using them =) If you're not i assume you're using some sort of resource loop to create your entries.
After looking around in the facebook docs it seems you can specify the image (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/using-actions/v2.0#params) when creating your share button using the javascript sdk (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/share-dialog). Each article will need to call something like this instead of the current javascript share url functionality.
FB.ui({
method: 'share_open_graph',
action_type: 'og.likes',
action_properties: JSON.stringify({
image: "YourImageForThisRespectiveShare",
})
}, function(response){});
If you prefer to explore the method i mentioned in the comments it would go something like this:
Look in your code at u=location.href;, you'd want to try modifying that to u=location.href+'?articleid=[~[*id*]~]';. When you share you should hopefully see the appended article ID for each article.
You'll then need to make sure you can specify og:image and description for each article, i assume you somehow have resources set up that represent each article, in that case just create a couple of template variables for that resource type.
In your header you could then use the getResourceField package for example to retrieve the correct TV from the correct resource, as specified by the ?articleid= parameter in your URL.
To retrieve the parameter you'll need a simple snippet like return (!empty($_GET['articleid']) ? $_GET['articleid'] : $default);. Lets name the snippet: "getArticleId". I left the option to decide a default image when there is no &articleid specified.
You're using modx evolution from the look of your [~[*id*]~] tag, but there should be some equivalent of the getResourceField package for evolution. This is the revolution version of the code needed:
<meta property="og:image" content="[[!getResourceField?
&id=`[[!getArticleId? &default=`[[*id]]`]]` //Take the blog page's own image as a default
&field=`imageTV` //you'll of course have to change "imageTV" to whatever you call it
&isTV=`1`
]]" />
Repeat for og:title and og:description, with their respective TV names.
I am stuck with this one...
I have a website that plays music. The page updates automatically to display the current song being played and the image of the artist. The website also allows visitors to request songs. What I want to do is allow users to then share their request on Facebook, so I have added the code below.
Initially, when you pressed the Facebook button, it would pop up iwth a box which contained all the correct info (song, artist, image, etc), but would not post correctly to Facebook (the dynamic info such as title and image would be missing). Now, recently, it doesn't even populate the pop up correctly.
I'm stuck and cannot figure out how to get this to work correctly, can anyone help me?
Thanks.
<a class="facebook" target="_blank" onclick="return !window.open(this.href, 'Facebook', 'width=640,height=300')" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?s=100&p[title]=I'm listening to <?php echo $currentSong->title . ' by ' . $currentSong->artist; ?>&p[summary]=Join me and listen right now or request your own song&p[url]=http://www.mydomain.com&p[images[0]=<?php echo $largeimg; ?>"><img src="http://www.mydomain.com/new/images/facebook.png" width="32" height="32" border="0" style="padding-top:5px; padding-right:4px "></a>
Actually, you should only add the URL as parameter (url encoded) to the sharer.php:
<img ... />
It automatically takes the Open Graph data from the shared URL, see this page: http://ogp.me/
I assume all the other parameters are deprecated, at least it did not work for me some months ago. The only thing you could try is to encode all data with the PHP function "urlencode" - but i would suggest using the correct way and implement Open Graph correctly. That way you can even just take the URL, put it on Facebook manually and it will take the correct data.
If the content is completely dynamic, you should consider using Open Graph Actions: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/
Or if that is too complicated, use the FB.ui feed dialog:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/feed/
...but don´t forget to include the JavaScript SDK:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/javascript/quickstart
When using the javascript sdk the app opens a dialog with a link, facebook will fetch some sort of a display for that link, based on the og tags in it, and will put it inside an element with id "UIStoryAttachment".
Is there a way to somehow produce the same UIStoryAttachment display inside a container element of my choice? like, for example something similar to:
<div id="storyContainer">
<div class="fb-story" data-url="MY_PAGE_URL"></div>
</div>
And then:
FB.XFBML.parse(document.getElementById("storyContainer"));
This of course does not exist, but is there anything similar in anyway?
Thanks.