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Thread began 3/11/2011 1:41 pm by bill173836 | Last modified 5/17/2011 1:01 pm by bill173836 | 5825 views | 12 replies |

bill173836

Link to Dynamic Page

I need the Facebook aspect of the Social Media Toolkit to post a dynamic link. As it currently is it's showing the current page. I rewrote part of the script and it appears to work for the email and some of the other links but Facebook only shows the current page. Here is what I wrote maybe I've missed something.

<?php $host = 'http://www.talkofthetowncoupons.com/merchantinformation.php?merchantPID='; ?>
<?php $cpnnum = $row_rsAllCoupons['MerchantPID']; ?>
<?php $url = "$host" . "$cpnnum"; ?>

This added the link and proper info to the $url session variable.

You can see what I've done at auto.php

Thanks

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

to add dynamic attributes to the share link, click the folder icon next to URL in the Share wizard, select your page, then click the parameters button.

set the name of the paramter to merchantPID then click the lightning bolt icon next to value and select the MerchantPID column from your recordset.

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bill173836

I tried this and everything seems to work except the Facebook link which is still showing the link as the origin page which in this case is cleaningservices.php

Here is the code.

<div class="wasocial">
<div class="icons"> <a name="fb_share" type="icon" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.ph?u=<?php echo urlencode('http://talkofthetowncoupons.com/merchantinformation.php?merchantPID='); ?><?php echo $row_rsAllCoupons['CMerchantPID']; ?>" title="Facebook"></a>
<script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script>
</div>
<div class="icons">
<div id="custom-tweet-button"> <a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=<?php echo urlencode('http://talkofthetowncoupons.com/merchantinformation.php?merchantPID='); ?><?php echo $row_rsAllCoupons['CMerchantPID']; ?>" target="_blank" title="Tweet"></a> </div>
</div>
<div class="icons">
<script type="text/javascript">
(function() {
var s = document.createElement('SCRIPT'), s1 = document.getElementsByTagName('SCRIPT')[0];
s.type = 'text/javascript';
s.async = true;
s.src = 'http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js';
s1.parentNode.insertBefore(s, s1);
})();
</script>
<!-- Icon Button -->
<a class="DiggThisButton DiggIcon" href="http://digg.com/submit?url=<?php echo urlencode('http://talkofthetowncoupons.com/merchantinformation.php?merchantPID='); ?><?php echo $row_rsAllCoupons['CMerchantPID']; ?>"></a> </div>
<div class="icons"> <a href="#" onclick="window.open('http://reddit.com/submit?url=<?php echo urlencode('http://talkofthetowncoupons.com/merchantinformation.php?merchantPID='); ?><?php echo $row_rsAllCoupons['CMerchantPID']; ?>')"> <img src="webassist/social/icons/reddit.png" alt="submit to reddit" border="0" title="Reddit" /> </a> </div>
<div class="icons">
<script src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=4&r=<?php echo urlencode('http://talkofthetowncoupons.com/merchantinformation.php?merchantPID='); ?><?php echo $row_rsAllCoupons['CMerchantPID']; ?>"></script>
</div>
<div class="icons"> <a title="Post to Google Buzz" class="google-buzz-button" href="http://www.google.com/buzz/post?url=<?php echo urlencode('http://talkofthetowncoupons.com/merchantinformation.php?merchantPID='); ?><?php echo $row_rsAllCoupons['CMerchantPID']; ?>" data-admin-site="true" data-button-style="normal-button"></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/buzz/api/button.js"></script>
</div>
<div class="icons"> <a href="http://www.delicious.com/save" onclick="window.open('http://www.delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+('<?php echo urlencode('http://talkofthetowncoupons.com/merchantinformation.php?merchantPID='); ?><?php echo $row_rsAllCoupons['CMerchantPID']; ?>')+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;"> <img src="webassist/social/icons/delicious.png" alt="Delicious" id="delicious" title="Delicious" /></a> </div>
<div class="icons"> <a href="mailto:?subject=Talk Of The Town Coupons&body=Checkout this coupon link: http:www.talkofthetowncoupons.com/merchantinformation.php?merchantPID=<?php echo $row_rsAllCoupons['CMerchantPID']; ?>"><img src="webassist/social/icons/mail.png" title="Mail" /></a> </div>
<div class="icons"> <a href="#"><img src="webassist/social/icons/favorites.png" onclick="addBookmark(document.title, '<?php echo urlencode('http://talkofthetowncoupons.com/merchantinformation.php?merchantPID='); ?><?php echo $row_rsAllCoupons['CMerchantPID']; ?>')" title="Bookmarks" /></a> </div>
</div>

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Dani Chankhour

This is a bug that will be fixed in the next dot release. To fix this issue, please replace the facebook html with this code:

<div class="icons"> <a name="fb_share" type="icon" href="#" onclick="window.open('http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<?php echo urlencode('http://localhost/test/untitled.php'); ?>', 'Facebook', 'toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436'); return false;" title="Facebook"> <img src="webassist/social/icons/facebook.png" width="16" height="16" /> </a> </div>


make sure to replace the url with the url you want to use.

let me know if you have any other questions.

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bill173836

Thanks, That seemed to resolve the dynamic link issue. The next issue is when Facebook tries to create a comment it's choosing random images to post as a thumbnail. Now do set the image and description text. It's currently choosing older description text.

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Dani Chankhour

Sorry, but I'm not sure I understand the issue you are having with facebook comments.

do you have a link that you can send that could help me better understand the issue.

thanks.

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bill173836

Here is the link:

auto.php

What is happening is that if you click the Facebook icon on any one of the coupons then it brings up a Post to Profile window with the correct link. But here is where I'm having the problem the Post page allows you to choose a Thumbnail. On the coupon I chose it gave me 6 thumbnails to choose from. I don't want to use any of the choices I'm given. I want to define the image it chooses (for example the clients' logo).

Thanks.

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Dani Chankhour

Facebook usually scan the page and picks random images to choose from. If you want to choose the thumbnail, try adding this to the head of your page:

<link rel="image_src" type="image/jpeg" href="http://www.domain.com/path/icon-facebook.gif" />


Facebook will then choose that image as a thumbnail.

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bill173836

I've tried that and it completely ignores it and shows 6 other images. If I can't get it to show the right image is there a way to turn it off?

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Dani Chankhour

I can't see a way to turn off thumbnail.

Try removing this property "type="image/jpeg"" from the meta tag.

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