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29 Dec 2020

HOW TO SHARE PAGES ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN CODEIGNITER?

To Share blog or Information over social media like facebook, twitter or linked in for degital marketing of your project in codeigniter, You need to follow following steps:

STEPS TO SHARE PAGES OVER SOCIAL MEDIA :

STEP 1: In your codeigniter project folder go to the folder application/view/layout/main_layout.php:
  • Open main_layout.php file.
  • In this file, in head section, add the following code:

<meta property="og:url" content=""/>
<meta property="og:image" content=""/>
<meta property="og:title" content="" />
<meta property="og:description" content="" />

  • For example, you can used array for calling in the files as below

<meta property="og:url" content="<?php if(isset($url) && !empty($url)){echo $url;}?>"/>
<meta property="og:image" content="<?php if(isset($img) && !empty($img)){echo $img;}?>"/>
<meta property="og:title" content="<?php if(isset($title) && !empty($title)){echo $title;}?>"/>
<meta property="og:description" content="<?php if(isset($meta_desc) && !empty($meta_desc)){echo $meta_desc;}?>"/>

STEP 2: To share information over social media, you need to add social media button or images on that webpage through which you want to share blog/information and using anchor tag give link to anchor tag.

  • In the folder application/view, go to the file which you want to share on social media and open it.
  • You can put anchor tag on social media icons, images. So go to social media code in the view file where you put your social anchor tag.
  • Put the following code as an example

<a id="facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<?php echo base_url()?>your_controller_page" class="fa fa-facebook border-icon rounded-icon" target="_blank""></a>

<a id="twitter" href="https://twitter.com/share?url=<?php echo base_url()?>your_controller_page" class="fa fa-twitter border-icon rounded-icon" target="_blank""></a>

<a id="Linkedin" href="https://linkedin.com/share?url=<?php echo base_url()?>your_controller_page" class="fa fa-linkedin border-icon rounded-icon" target="_blank""></a>


STEP 3: Now go to the particular controller file in which you change the title, description, image and url to be share on social media.
  • Go to application/controllers folder and open related controller file from it.
  • Your normal controller file can contain code like below:

    <?php
    class PAGE extends CI_Controller {
    public function index() {
    $data['page_name'] = "page";
    $this->load->view('layout/main_layout',$data);
    }
    }
    ?>

  • Now put the codes of array that you put in main_layout.php file in first step. As given below:

    <?php
    class PAGE extends CI_Controller {
    public function index() {
    $data['title']="page title";
    $data['meta_desc']="page description";
    $data['url'] = base_url("controller-page-name");
    $data['img'] = base_url("assets/images/xyz/page.jpg");
    $data['page_name'] = "view file page name";
    $this->load->view('layout/main_layout',$data);
    }
    }
    ?>