Email Ad to Friend and Facebook

laidback64 · February 11th, 2013, 03:58 PM

When viewing an ad there are several options to tell friends about it. When you click on the email icon, it brings up an email, but in the subject it says "Check out this hot wallpaper!". Is there a way to change this?

Also, when you click on the facebook icon, it does bring up an option to share a link, but the link is not to the actual ad, its a link to my forum. The picture it attaches to it, is not a picture associated with the ad. Is there a way to fix this, or is this just a Facebook problem?

Chuck S · February 11th, 2013, 04:17 PM

what version of the software are you using. I would need more info to respond.

As far as wording for the email thing I will update that in the next version you can change the wording in the showproduct templates for the email selection.

The facebook thing is where I would need more info to comment.

test auction - Reeftalk Classifieds

You can see in my clean test site this works.

test auction - Reeftalk Classifieds

laidback64 · February 11th, 2013, 09:03 PM

Could you try posting a new ad, and then see if it lets you use that picture? Also, I am using version 5.22.

Chuck S · February 11th, 2013, 09:20 PM

I am using 5.3 the latest beta so its newer than yours.

the facebook share link has nothing to do with a specific ad it works the same no matter what the ad is.

How about you post a url of an ad so I can see your issue?

Your page source for showproduct.php should have something like this in it which tells facebook what image to use.

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Chuck S · February 12th, 2013, 12:33 PM

Your facebook issue is caused by enabling the facebook connect in vb which is messing with image path so it is not grabbing the right image which is your issue.

You can try editing pp-inc.php in the printheader function around line 780 add the code in bold where noted.

Code:

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laidback64 · February 12th, 2013, 08:10 PM

I edited the pp-inc.php as instructed and It still does not post the correct information. The facebook connect feature has caused me several problems with other applications as well.

Chuck S · February 12th, 2013, 09:37 PM

Up in the printheader function in pp-inc.php on the two global lines is $imagefn on those lines defined like so? you might need to do that. Can not say without looking at your site which means I will have to go investigate what your url is again.

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laidback64 · February 12th, 2013, 11:04 PM

This is the code I have which appears to have some differences from the code you posted.

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My site url is www.semoyardsales.net

Thanks for your help on this!!

Chuck S · February 13th, 2013, 05:50 AM

Make sure to make your printheader global lines like posted below you must add the variable to the global lines to declare it. If you view your page source you will see the og:image variable is empty on your site.

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laidback64 · February 13th, 2013, 02:15 PM

I added this $imagefn; to my code, as shown above,and I am still getting the same results.

Chuck S · February 13th, 2013, 02:26 PM

HMM. Do this. Edit pp-inc.php change your two references to $imagefn with $imgurl

Then edit showproduct.php and add the line in bold below where noted.

Code:

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laidback64 · February 13th, 2013, 03:59 PM

Edited pp-inc.php---replaced the two reference to $imagefn with $imgurl
Also added the bold line above where instructed to do so.

Still no change that I was able to notice.

Facebook can be a pain.

Chuck S · February 13th, 2013, 04:16 PM

I think the way you setup your site is the pain. Two things I see that can cause issues are your data url has a trailing slash and should not and also why is your data url https secure not sure if that will cause issues or not.

what is that image that is coming across the share thing?

What I have instructed you to do in this thread is what facebook says to do to specify the image for the share script right on there developer script.

seems to work fine if I try it here

http://www.reeftalk.com/classifieds/...t-auction.html

laidback64 · February 13th, 2013, 05:12 PM

I believe I took off the trailing slash on data url. I changed my data url to non https and it still has the same problem. I changed it back because if is not https, my site show up as not secure.

The pictures that show up are from different ads. And its the same 2-3 pictures every time.

laidback64 · February 13th, 2013, 05:29 PM

Also, besides from being https, everything else on my vBulletin forum and photopost classifieds is default.

Chuck S · February 13th, 2013, 05:56 PM

Well the forum facebook thing just messes with things I guess.

laidback64 · February 13th, 2013, 08:08 PM

I believe it is. I disabled Facebook Connect and it seemed to work.

Chuck S · February 13th, 2013, 08:16 PM

Yeah the forum facebook seems to throw everything out of whack