Not sure if this is the same issue, but the Facebook sharer button on the bottom of the event page was not producing the correct link or preserving the title of the event when the URL was passed to
facebook.com/sharer.php
.
The problem was ampersands in the URL. Facebook's sharer.php uses the ampersand to indicted parameters as well, so it was dumping the rest of the link.
Here's my solution:
I applied the rawurlencode function to the $link variable in /components/com_eventbooking/helper/helper.php:
Change (around line 696):
Code:
function getFacebookButton( $title, $link ) {
$img_url = JURI::base()."/components/com_eventbooking/assets/images/socials/facebook.png";
return '<a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=' . $link . '&t=' . rawurlencode( $title ) . '" title="Submit ' . $title . ' in FaceBook" target="blank" >
<img src="' . $img_url . '" alt="Submit ' . $title . ' in FaceBook" />
</a>' ;
}
To:
Code:
function getFacebookButton( $title, $link ) {
$img_url = JURI::base()."/components/com_eventbooking/assets/images/socials/facebook.png";
return '<a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=' . rawurlencode( $link ) . '&t=' . rawurlencode( $title ) . '" title="Submit ' . $title . ' in FaceBook" target="blank" >
<img src="' . $img_url . '" alt="Submit ' . $title . ' in FaceBook" />
</a>' ;
}
This worked for me. Would be nice if Event Booking modified the page description in the meta tags with the event description so Facebook could pick that up as well when it scrapes the page.
