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I am trying to create a share button for links using the Facebook share button:
http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/share.php http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Facebook_Share
However when I try to use the t value in my URL's they don't work.
I even tried using the example on the API page:
http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.facebook.com%2F&t=Facebook%20Developers
And it doesn't work... It sets the title as developers.facebook.com not Facebook Developers as specified by the URL
Anyone know how I can make this work correctly?
I want my share links to come up as... 'Title Of what I am sharing' and then... the url directly to that item.
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The Facebook share link dynamically fetches the title and images from the page/website to share. The title specified in the link is only used while Facebook loads the page details. Check this link out:
http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.rackspace.com&t=SOME%20TITLE
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My solution to the title parameter is:
as url, add to the page url a variable (lik real_title):
http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://mydomain.net/mypage?real_title=MyTitle
Then, in the index.php page:
< title>
<?php if (isset ($_GET['real_title']))
print ($_GET['real_title']);
else
print ("Default page title"); ?>
< /title>
Facebook crawls the given URL in search of Open Graph meta tags. It gives precedence to the contents of those tags, if they're present. Here's a sample of what the Open Graph tags look like:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:og="http://ogp.me/ns#"
xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml">
<head>
<title>The Rock (1996)</title>
<meta property="og:title" content="The Rock"/>
<meta property="og:type" content="movie"/>
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/"/>
<meta property="og:image" content="http://ia.media-imdb.com/rock.jpg"/>
<meta property="og:site_name" content="IMDb"/>
<meta property="fb:admins" content="USER_ID"/>
<meta property="og:description"
content="A group of U.S. Marines, under command of
a renegade general, take over Alcatraz and
threaten San Francisco Bay with biological
weapons."/>
...
</head>
...
</html>
More info at http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/
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