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SMF Support => SMF 2.0.x Support => Topic started by: koupe377 on April 18, 2012, 09:04:44 AM

Title: Image attchments in posts not showing up in facebook
Post by: koupe377 on April 18, 2012, 09:04:44 AM
I post up coming event topics and attach the event flyer's to the post. I think post the thread link I my facebook fan page. Before I when I had 1.1.11, when I would paste the link in facebook the flyer image would be one of the images I could choose for facebook to use. Now that I have 2.0 facebook is only seeing my website logo, its not seeing any image attachment it posts.

Has anyone had this problem? Its as if SMF 2.0 is putting image attachments somwhere else, not actually on the page of the thread and then calls them back thru a  directory url to the post so they can be seen. But because its not actually on the post page facebook is not picking them up. I really need to fix this because I have the have the event flyers visible in facebook
Title: Re: Image attchments in posts not showing up in facebook
Post by: DarkAngel612 on April 18, 2012, 10:52:06 AM
A  link to your forum or wesite would probably help you get more answers also saying which FB mod you are using  would be helpful too
Title: Re: Image attchments in posts not showing up in facebook
Post by: koupe377 on April 18, 2012, 05:47:30 PM
Hi DA thanks for your reply. This has nothing to do with a facebook mod. All Im doing is pasting a thread url into my facebook or any facebook page where you can leave comments. I have thread/posts with images attached to them. When I past the url in my facebook comments facebook is not seeing the attached image. But before when i had 1.1.11 it would.

This is my site http://floridafighter.com

Look at this post url here it has an image attached a flyer for the event floridafighter.com/index.php?topic=359.0 copy and paste that and go look at the post. You will see an image attached. Next go to your facebook page or any page where you can leave a comment and paste the url be sure to include the "http://" the only images that it will let you select are my two website logos it wont let me select the attached image. SMF 2.0 is doing something with images different than 1.1.11 and they are not actually on the post page. This is why facebook cant find it. but i have to have be able to have these  flyers show up when i post a thread link on facebook.
Title: Re: Image attchments in posts not showing up in facebook
Post by: koupe377 on April 19, 2012, 02:36:32 PM
No body knows how to fix this?
Title: Re: Image attchments in posts not showing up in facebook
Post by: DarkAngel612 on April 19, 2012, 03:11:18 PM
The only thing I can think of is to add the image to the actual post....maybe it will see it that way.

It acts like it is not seen...tis why I was asking which mod you installed, did you have ANY errors when installing?

mine is the same way...the only images that are seen are the ones in the blocks but not attachments

I just tried it with one of my market posts that has the image within the body of the  thread and it showed up in the choicesfrom my regular forum NOT the store forum.
Title: Re: Image attchments in posts not showing up in facebook
Post by: koupe377 on April 19, 2012, 05:09:42 PM
It's laborious to have to ftp the image to my servers and  then to actually type out the link in the thread. That's what the additional options > attach is for LOL. Like I said when i had 1.1.11 it worked great. There has to be some way to change the way 2.0 handles attachments so that they will show up in facebook

"...did you have ANY errors when installing?" when installing what?

whats the url for your website?
Title: Re: Image attchments in posts not showing up in facebook
Post by: DarkAngel612 on April 19, 2012, 08:33:26 PM
Quote from: koupe377 on April 19, 2012, 05:09:42 PM
It's laborious to have to ftp the image to my servers and  then to actually type out the link in the thread. That's what the additional options > attach is for LOL. Like I said when i had 1.1.11 it worked great. There has to be some way to change the way 2.0 handles attachments so that they will show up in facebook

"...did you have ANY errors when installing?" when installing what?

whats the url for your website?
first one in my siggie, second one is our store
Title: Re: Image attchments in posts not showing up in facebook
Post by: koupe377 on April 20, 2012, 12:50:57 AM
cool
Title: Re: Image attchments in posts not showing up in facebook
Post by: DarkAngel612 on April 21, 2012, 02:58:24 AM
I had another idea since you do not wish to add the images to your server. Have you tried the inline attachments mod, it is supposed to allow the attachments in the actual post...maybe that would work for FB pages too.

this is one of them: http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1179

the one by spuds looks to be more flexible: http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2481
Title: Re: Image attchments in posts not showing up in facebook
Post by: janitro on May 15, 2012, 10:42:24 AM
Hi guys I'm having the same problem... Posting links to the forums with its image is a must nowadays, so any help will be appreciated.

I tried In Line Attachments v1.2.1 (By Spuds) and it didn't work... ATTACHMENTS IN MESSAGE v1.4.0 could'n be installed due to errors.

Any ideas?
Title: Re: Image attchments in posts not showing up in facebook
Post by: petb on May 19, 2012, 10:31:06 AM
Problem maybe caused while Facebook try the Query String with

   %3B and %3D in den URL instead of  ;  and =

With older SMF Versions such Urls (Query String) has worked fine.

Some Guys used a little URLparsing Sniplet, they described here http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=460796.msg3247862#msg3247862

But why has smf changed this handling of the Query String ?

A Lot of Users have the same Problem:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=471506.msg3295593#msg3295593
Title: Re: Image attchments in posts not showing up in facebook
Post by: Technical4U.com on May 19, 2012, 11:48:58 AM
ya me have that problem but i dont understand how to make it
Title: Re: Image attchments in posts not showing up in facebook
Post by: Freddy888 on October 19, 2012, 11:20:06 AM
ANyone ever get this to work - ie making FB see image attachments ?