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The SocialMedia plugin provides the tools to generate social media links (Helper) and handle them (Controller).

Requirements

• CakePHP 2.9.0 or greater.
• PHP 7.0.0 or greater.

Installation

• Clone/Copy the files in this directory into app/Plugin/SocialMedia

Configuration

• Ensure the plugin is loaded in app/Config/bootstrap.php by calling:

CakePlugin::load('SocialMedia');

• Ensure to configure the following two lines in app/Config/bootstrap.php:

Configure::write('SocialMedia.salt', 'your-salt');
Configure::write('SocialMedia.facebookAppId', 'your-facebook-app-id');

Usage

Facebook share link

echo $this->SocialMedia->facebook(
	__('Share on Facebook'), [
		'link' => 'your-url',
		'name' => 'your-name',
		'caption' => 'your-caption',
		'description' => 'your-description',
		'picture' => 'your-picture'
	]
);

Twitter tweet link

echo $this->SocialMedia->twitter(
	__('Tweet on Twitter'), [
		'url' => 'your-url',
		'via' => 'your-via',
		'text' => 'your-text',
	]
);