Social media share buttons

Hello Robert,

but rather than the current blog page url I'm getting blog/post.php shared. Any idea why?

That's because this is the actual page URL. You need to use something like this to get the full URL:

$full_url = 'https://example.com' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

Then you also need to encode the URL since you are passing it as URL parameter.

You can use Pipit Sharing to generate sharing links. You can add the links in your Perch template instead of having them with PHP.

Your template would like like:

<!--* Facebook *-->
<a href="<perch:sharing id="facebook" />" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href, '', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=no,scrollbars=no,height=400,width=600');return false;">Share</a>

<!--* Twitter *-->
<a href="<perch:sharing id="twitter" />" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href, '', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=no,scrollbars=no,height=400,width=600');return false;">Share</a>

And to pass the post title to your tweet, you can use something like this:

perch_blog_custom([
    'template' => 'post.html',
    'filter' => 'postSlug',
    'match' => 'eq',
    'value' => perch_get('s'),
    'each' => function($item) {
        $item['sharing_twitter_desc'] = $item['postTitle'];
        return $item;
    }
]);

Hi Hussain,

Thanks for that. I've installed Pipit Sharing and added the links to post.html. The result when sharing with twitter is: https:////blog/2018-04-04-Title. I don't really understand what and where to configure as I don't know PHP.

Oh, thanks for that! I didn't realise that the settings referred to Perch settings and was looking for them in Pipits. Great app!