custom facebook share button
This solution is using javascript to open a new window when a user clicks on your custom share button.
HTML:
<a href="#" onclick="share_fb('http://urlhere.com/test/55d7258b61707022e3050000');return false;" rel="nofollow" share_url="http://urlhere.com/test/55d7258b61707022e3050000" target="_blank">
//using fontawesome
<i class="uk-icon-facebook uk-float-left"></i>
Share
</a>
and in your javascript file. note window.open params are (url, dialogue title, width, height)
function share_fb(url) {
window.open('https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u='+url,'facebook-share-dialog',"width=626, height=436")
}
You can use facebook javascript sdk. First add FB Js SDK to your code (please refer to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/javascript)
window.fbAsyncInit = function(){
FB.init({
appId: 'xxxxx', status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true });
};
(function(d, debug){var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk', ref = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
if(d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id;
js.async = true;js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all" + (debug ? "/debug" : "") + ".js";
ref.parentNode.insertBefore(js, ref);}(document, /*debug*/ false));
function postToFeed(title, desc, url, image){
var obj = {method: 'feed',link: url, picture: 'http://www.url.com/images/'+image,name: title,description: desc};
function callback(response){}
FB.ui(obj, callback);
}
So when you want to share something
<a href="someurl.com/some-article" data-image="article-1.jpg" data-title="Article Title" data-desc="Some description for this article" class="btnShare">Share</a>
And finally JS to handle click:
$('.btnShare').click(function(){
elem = $(this);
postToFeed(elem.data('title'), elem.data('desc'), elem.prop('href'), elem.data('image'));
return false;
});