New Module: Share (link to Gallery on social media sites)

Hello all,

I have written a simple module for Gallery 2 to provide a Share button to send the link of your Gallery page to social media sites such as Facebook. Right now, Facebook is the only button it has, but it should be easy to extend it to other sites. I implemented it as a block that can be added to your theme anywhere you would like. There is one site-wide setting in the Site Admin page to control whether the button is shown to guests or only when users are logged in.

Anyway, hope you find it useful. It's available through Downloadable Plugins.

Thanks! It's a simple module, so it looks like you've covered everything.

Myspace: http://wiki.developer.myspace.com/index.php?title=How_to_Add_Share_on_MySpace_to_Your_Site
Twitter: http://twitter.com/goodies, click on the Buttons link. It won't let me past that page because I don't have a Twitter account.

I think you just need to add the appropriate link/button code to ShareBlock.tpl. For Myspace, anyway, the existing metadata is what it is expecting. I may get around to adding it, but don't wait for me...

To thwart spoofers, many javascript frameworks sidestep iframes altogether with something like:

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
//<![CDATA[
if (top != self) {
    window.top.location.href=location;
}
//]]>
</script>

Your best bet is to dump the iframe altogether and embed your gallery properly.
I have an app for that.

-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery with The E2 XML Media Player for Gallery2

url to your iframed gallery?

-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery with The E2 XML Media Player for Gallery2

That worked! Thanks for your help.

Yes, it appears that Facebook changed the API (Bad Facebook!). It still works for me on my site, but it's clearly not what Facebook wants now. On first glance I thought it would be pretty easy, but it's been a while since I worked on any Gallery code and I've forgotten how to do some key things. Fundamentally it's a pretty small change, but it takes some care to get it right.

Something else I just noticed on the Facebook documentation that may cause problems for some photos:

"The og:image is the URL to the image that appears in the Feed story. The thumbnail's width AND height must be at least 50 pixels, and cannot exceed 130x110 pixels. The ratio of both height divided by width and width divided by height (w/h, h/w) cannot exceed 3.0. For example, an image of 126x39 pixels will not be displayed, as the ratio of width divided by height is greater than 3.0 (126/39 = 3.23). Images will be resized proportionally."

I think I've got a handle on the changes. It only involves two files (attached). Would you be willing to test them out and see if it fixes your problem before I publish it more widely? The forum software only lets me upload files with certain extensions, so rename Preloads.txt to Preloads.inc and ShareBlockHead.txt to ShareBlockHead.tpl and then overwrite the corresponding files in the share module (it might be a good idea to make a copy of the original files first).

Hi SiliconFiend,

So I had to delete the share module and totally replace it (permission problems). I replaced the two files as you said and reinstalled the module (which is still on version 1.0.1 on the plugin page) b.

So again the result depends on the picture :

These are the one that were visible on the pop up and on Facebook :

http://www.coquille.org/gallery/portfolio/portrait/color/yuan2.jpg.html
http://www.coquille.org/gallery/portfolio/portrait/color/08.jpg.html
http://www.coquille.org/gallery/portfolio/portrait/color/AAA_1751.jpg.html

This one was only visible on the pop up but did not appear on FB :
http://www.coquille.org/gallery/portfolio/portrait/color/10.jpg.html

These ones did not show anywhere :
http://www.coquille.org/gallery/portfolio/portrait/color/titta8_c.jpg.html
http://www.coquille.org/gallery/portfolio/Landscapes/Color/_PDP7751.jpg.html
http://www.coquille.org/gallery/portfolio/portrait/color/_PDP7033.jpg.html

One more point : when the picture show up everywhere or even on the pop-up, the title of the picture shows up properly on the post on the Facebook.
But when the picture does not show up on the pop and Facebook, the title is the URL of the page : http://www.coquille.org/gallery/portfolio/portrait/color/titta8_c.jpg.html

when you click on the share lick and the popup appears, it looks like the app is looking for the pic, does not find it so just put the URL of the page.

As for the format, I tried different format but nothing seems to be very logical :
not working : http://www.coquille.org/gallery/portfolio/portrait/color/_PDP7033.jpg.html
and working : http://www.coquille.org/gallery/portfolio/portrait/color/AAA_1751.jpg.html

were taken by the same camera and have the same format...

What about you ? is it working for you ?

I work on a mac, if this might change smth...

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Gallery URL = http://www.coquille.org/gallery/main.php
Gallery version = 2.3 core 1.3.0
API = Core 7.54, Module 3.9, Theme 2.6, Embed 1.5
PHP version = 5.2.6 apache2handler
Webserver = Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS)
Database = mysql

Hi all!
At first excuse for my not good Ehglish..

I have problem with Module: Share (link to Gallery on social media sites).
All works perfectly, but if i klick to Facebook icon there is grammatical mistake in Login window (in Estonian lanquage).
My question: in what folder i can found the file, where i must correct the text and whats the file name?

Hi!
Many thanks for your answer!!