custom facebook share button

Question

I want to share my website articles on facebook (content,image,title)!

but facebook doesn't detect correct image.

in this case I put an static image URL.

this is my code:

<li>
    <a id="buttton"  href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?s=100&amp;p[title]=<?php echo $title;?>&amp;p[summary]=<?php echo $summary;?>&amp;p[url]=<?php echo urlencode($url);?>&amp;p[images][0]=http://www.example.com/images/report/daily_report/KNDR/image(2).jpg" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href, '', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=no,scrollbars=no,height=400,width=600'); return false;">
        <img src="<?php echo base_url()?>media/images/share.png" alt=""/>
    </a>
</li>

Answer 1

You can use facebook javascript sdk. First add FB Js SDK to your code (please refer to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/javascript)

window.fbAsyncInit = function(){
FB.init({
    appId: 'xxxxx', status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true }); 
};
(function(d, debug){var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk', ref = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
    if(d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
    js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; 
    js.async = true;js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all" + (debug ? "/debug" : "") + ".js";
    ref.parentNode.insertBefore(js, ref);}(document, /*debug*/ false));
function postToFeed(title, desc, url, image){
var obj = {method: 'feed',link: url, picture: 'http://www.url.com/images/'+image,name: title,description: desc};
function callback(response){}
FB.ui(obj, callback);
}

So when you want to share something

<a href="someurl.com/some-article" data-image="article-1.jpg" data-title="Article Title" data-desc="Some description for this article" class="btnShare">Share</a>

And finally JS to handle click:

$('.btnShare').click(function(){
elem = $(this);
postToFeed(elem.data('title'), elem.data('desc'), elem.prop('href'), elem.data('image'));

return false;
});

Answer 2

This solution is using javascript to open a new window when a user clicks on your custom share button.

HTML:

<a href="#" onclick="share_fb('http://urlhere.com/test/55d7258b61707022e3050000');return false;" rel="nofollow" share_url="http://urlhere.com/test/55d7258b61707022e3050000" target="_blank">

  //using fontawesome
  <i class="uk-icon-facebook uk-float-left"></i>
    Share
</a>

and in your javascript file. note window.open params are (url, dialogue title, width, height)

function share_fb(url) {
  window.open('https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u='+url,'facebook-share-dialog',"width=626, height=436")
}