Monday, June 4, 2012

Facebook sharer, pass in a comment?


Is it possible to post a description/comment variable to the facebook sharer url? It's only possible for url and title as far as I can figure out.



Source: Tips4all

4 comments:

  1. The parameters that you can pass to the actual sharer.php are "u" and "t" which are url and title. You can add meta tags to your page to get more info to appear in the sharer. To quote the docs (make sure you click the advance partners link):


    In order to make sure that the preview
    is always correctly populated, you
    should add the tags shown below to
    your html. An example news story could
    have the following:

    <meta name="title"
    content="Smith hails 'unique' Wable legacy">
    <meta name="description"
    content="John Smith claims beautiful football ..." />
    <link rel="image_src"
    href="http://www.onjd.com/design05/images/PH2/WableAFC205.jpg" />


    As shown, title contains the preview
    title, description contains the
    preview summary and image_src contains
    the preview image. Please make sure
    that none of the content fields
    contain any html markup because it
    will be stripped out. For
    consistency's sake, please use the
    <meta> tag to provide text data for
    the preview, and the <link> tag for
    any source urls.

    The title and summary tags are the
    minimum requirements for any preview,
    so make sure to include these two.

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  2. As shown, title contains the preview title, description contains the preview summary and image_src contains the preview image. Please make sure that none of the content fields contain any html markup because it will be stripped out. For consistency's sake, please use the <meta> tag to provide text data for the preview, and the <link> tag for any source urls.

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  3. facebook sharer use the description meta tag to add a description in your post for the pictures I don't really know how it works but I think it uses this tag in your header:

    <link rel='image_src' href='http://www.yourwebsite/dir1/dir2/picture.jpg' />

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  4. You can actually pass custom title, url, image and comment/description using:

    http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?s=100&p[title]=titlehere&p[url]=http://www.yoururlhere.com&p[summary]=yoursummaryhere&p[images][0]=http://www.urltoyourimage.com

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