Want custom title / image / description in facebook share link from a flash app [duplicate]

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I am making a flash app that demonstrates potensial traffic injuries when driving at different speeds. I want the user to be able to share this information on facebook. However this demands that i can customize the text that will appear on facebook in some manner.

I am making an url that is opened in a blank window (from the flash app itself). I specify the u and t parameters, putting the generated message as the t parameter. But this seems to always be overridden by the pages title. If i omit the title tag from the html code, the file name is used (also overriding the specified title).

http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://espentokerud.com/face/addiste.html&t=test;

I also tried url-encoding the url, but to no avail.

http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3a%2f%2fespentokerud.com%2fface%2faddiste.html&t=test;

I also tried using the addthis API, but experience the same shortcomings. The funny thing is that if i post a swf, the title and description can be customized, and it is also possible to specify a screenshot. But if i dont post a swf, this seems to be ignored.

I am aware that I can use meta tags on the html page to specify the thumbnail image, title and description, but some of this content has to be based on calculations inside the flash app.

Solution 1:

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Original Answer

I agree with what has already been said here, but per documentation on the Facebook developer site, you might want to use the following meta tags.

<meta property="og:title" content="title" />
<meta property="og:description" content="description" />
<meta property="og:image" content="thumbnail_image" />

If you are not able to accomplish your goal with meta tags and you need a URL embedded version, see @Lelis718's answer below.

Solution 2:

I think this site has the solution, i will test it now. It Seems like facebook has changed the parameters of share.php so, in order to customize share window text and images you have to put parameters in a "p" array.

http://www.daddydesign.com/wordpress/how-to-create-a-custom-facebook-share-button-for-your-iframe-tab/

Check it out.

Solution 3:

I had this same problem a week ago.

First of all I noticed your URL has an ampersand preceding the parameter string, but it probably needs to have a question mark instead to begin the parameter string, followed by an ampersand between each additional parameter.

Now, you do need to escape your URL but also double-escape the URL parameters (title or other content you need to provide content in the Share) you are passing to the URL, as follows:

var myParams = 't=' + escape('Some title here.') + '&id=' + escape('some content ID or any other value I want to load');
var fooBar = 'http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=' + escape('http://foobar.com/superDuperSharingPage.php?' + myParams);

Now, you need to create the above-linked superDuperSharingPage.php, which should provide the dynamic title, description, and image content you desire. Something like this should suffice:

<?php
    // get our URL query parameters
    $title = $_GET['t'];
    $id = $_GET['id'];
    // maybe we want to load some content with the id I'll pretend we loaded a
    // description from some database in the sky which is magically arranged thusly:
    $desciption = $databaseInTheSky[$id]['description'];
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <title><?php echo $title;?></title>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <meta name="title" content="<?php echo $title;?>" />
  <meta name="description" content="<?php echo $desciption;?>" />
  <!-- the following line redirects to wherever we want the USER to land -->
  <!-- Facebook won't follow it. you may or may not actually want || need this. -->
  <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;URL=http://foobar.com" />
</head>
<body>
  <p><?php echo $desciption;?></p>
  <p><img src="image_a_<?php echo $id;?>.jpg" alt="Alt tags are always a good idea." /></p>
  <p><img src="image_b_<?php echo $id;?>.jpg" alt="Make the web more accessible to the blind!" /></p>
</body>
</html>

Let me know if this works for you, it's essentially what did for me :)

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