How to create a share button in AS3

Question

I was wondering if anyone knew a good way of creating an AS3 Facebook share button? I need to be able to customize the title, description and picture. Thanks!

Answer 1

It depends on what you wish to share.

You can use the following url in a button:

http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://www.mypage.com/

which will pop up a page prompting the user to log in and share whatever they want to share.

Could you be more precise as to what you want to allow your users to share?

Answer 2

Look: http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/share.php

http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<url>&t=<title>

In Flash:

import flash.net.navigateToURL;
import flash.net.URLVariables;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.net.URLRequestMethod;

share_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, shareClickHandler);

function shareClickHandler(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
    var varsShare:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
    varsShare.u = 'http://domain.com/pageN.html';
    varsShare.t = 'Title Page';

    var urlFacebookShare:URLRequest = new URLRequest('http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php');
    urlFacebookShare.data = varsShare;
    urlFacebookShare.method = URLRequestMethod.GET;

    navigateToURL(urlFacebookShare, '_blank');
}

For use a picture you need to share the page has some Metatags.

<meta name="title" content="my title" />
<meta name="description" content="my description" />
<link rel="image_src" href="images/thumbnail_image.jpg" />

For more info: wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Facebook_Share/Specifying_Meta_Tags

Answer 3

THank you so much Otaku RzO! it worked as I wanted

Answer 4

Nice thank you. Good luck getting that like button to function in Flash...