How to post a link and treat it like facebook?

[Paschalis]

Hi all,

i want to have a field where i will paste only URL links from external pages. I want this to be treated like facebook:

after, when i will save it, it will be in my page as title, image, description and a target: _blank link to go in the external page where i cut it

Thank you in advance

[rick]

Something similar to this url preview feature?

[Paschalis]

exactly like this my friend

[rick]

First, welcome to the forum.

There are many ways to accomplish goals in ProcessWire, so I'm sure others will submit additional info, or a completely different solution.

Probably the simplest method to start with would be to create a text field to hold the desired URL, and reference that page field in your code as the usage section describes on the github preview site.

$preview_url = new LinkPreview( $your_page->your_field );
$parsed_url = $preview_url->getParsed();

etc...

Also, that solution on that site is not the only solution available, as this functionality has been a fairly common request for a number of years. So you might want to search around for an option (e.g., jquery) that may better fit your needs.

[DaveP]

Also take a look at http://oembed.com/ and http://modules.processwire.com/modules/textformatter-oembed/

[rick]

Also take a look at http://oembed.com/ and http://modules.processwire.com/modules/textformatter-oembed/

I like the textformater module.

[DaveP]

I like the textformater module.

It hasn't been updated for a while, but the author, felix, is still around.

<edit> And just thinking out loud, it wouldn't be hard to make a text formatter to cURL a link and parse for Open Graph tags or Twitter Cards, which a lot of sites include.</edit>

Edited January 19, 2016 by DaveP