Avatar4eg Share Social

NikolaiMorozov

New thread for Share Social fork.

Share-social by Avatar4eg

Extension that adds share (to some popular social networks) buttons and <head> meta tags (Open Graph and Twitter Card) to make links to your forum look better.
Originally made by @BinhQuang (Github).

Screenshots

Settings:

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Discussion button:

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Share modal:

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New meta tags:

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Example of link view in VK.com:

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Goals

Allow easy share discussions to popular social networks.
Make shared links look better.

Installation

composer require avatar4eg/flarum-ext-share-social

Configuration

Open settings modal of the extension in your admin panel to configure share buttons list and meta tags.

End-user usage

On discussion page in sidebar there is a new "Share" button which opens modal with list of enabled social buttons. Each button opens a new window with selected social network share dialog.

KirillLB

NikolaiMorozov Great extension, but extension settings cannot be opened. How it can be solved?

BlackSheep

Really nice !

NikolaiMorozov

Have someone same issue? I can't reproduce it.
Avatar4eg/flarum-ext-share-social2

jordanjay29

NikolaiMorozov Remove the .js files in your assets folder and then disabled and re-enable the extension.

Davis

Consider creating a way for extension developers to add their own meta tags easily with use of this extension. Posibly turn this into a public function?

Also consider adding support for a user's page, tags page, and linking of a specific post. So if a user links post 15 it will supply the text for post 15.

Also, maybe these meta tags belong in core.

NikolaiMorozov

Help needed.
For now I use PrepareApiData event to access data to use in head metadata. But I cant use it for

Davis user's page

because ShowUserController used in many places and head metadata overwrites.
How I can access same data?

sizonov_stas

facebook and g+ does't work in my case
https://i.imgur.com/OWU7bG1.png

https://i.imgur.com/U7FIigZ.png

NikolaiMorozov

sizonov_stas
They cant access your localhost ?

jordanjay29

NikolaiMorozov Probably better to open a topic in the Dev tag to address this issue.

Davis

NikolaiMorozov You cannot change the page's headers through the API unless you modify the JS to do so. There's no point to though. Just have it set to set the headers on the initial page load.

NikolaiMorozov

Davis I'm not trying to change head metadata through the API - I'm accessing page data on PrepareApiData event (cant find another way) to set head metadata. I can't do it in JS because socials parse head metadata in nojs mode.

Davis

NikolaiMorozov access the variables available through the configurewebview event.

NikolaiMorozov

Davis maybe ConfigureClientView (no ConfigureWebView in my installation ?)? But how to access the variables in it?

Davis

NikolaiMorozov https://github.com/flarum/core/blob/master/src/Event/ConfigureWebApp.php

https://github.com/flarum/core/blob/df247925d457e2f58f1a387b8d0dca9eb53050ac/src/Http/WebApp/WebAppView.php

NikolaiMorozov

Davis thanks, but it post beta5... so i cant use it

Davis

NikolaiMorozov oh sorry I forgot about that

Davis

NikolaiMorozov https://github.com/flarum/core/blob/v0.1.0-beta.5/src/Http/Controller/AbstractClientController.php

NikolaiMorozov

Davis yep, I'm using ConfigureClientView event to get ClientView and set default metatags. But how to access Discussion/User/... page data from it?

Davis

https://github.com/flarum/core/blob/v0.1.0-beta.5/src/Http/Controller/ClientView.php Try using request? Sorry don't have much time to do this I'm not at my computer either. You should just dig through the source code and figure it out that way.

NikolaiMorozov

Davis You should just dig through the source code and figure it out that way.

Thats what I tried. And couldn't find solution so i came here ?

Davis

NikolaiMorozov Use this to check the action of the user.