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Asked: 2026-06-14T23:06:35+00:00

I have searched the net for a solution but can’t seem to get anywhere.

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I have searched the net for a solution but can’t seem to get anywhere.

My page (php) is loading with one url (let’s say http://www.mysite.com)
in the page several search options on music (albums) can be done and the tracks are shown. (without refreshing the page). the info comes from a database.
So the url stays the same.
In this search process the facebook meta tags (description, url, title) stay the same also because I never reload the page, I only load content into div’s.

I would like to be able to ‘like’ the album, and backlink to it. So I have created the function to load the album by using the url: http://www.mysite.com?album=12345
I can show a popup with this url to share this.
So, if you go to this url, the content is automatically loaded based on the url parameter.

And on this spot (where you can see the url with the parameter ?album=12345) I would like to show the ‘like’ button as well. (I generated the url, so I use this in the code:)

echo '<div style="overflow:visable" class="fb-like" data-href="http://mysite.com/?album='.$albumid.'" data-send="false" data-width="300" data-show-faces="false">?</div>';

it works so far… (after I added the parse code to enable the button)
However the like button takes the default meta tags description and title etc.
Not particular on this album or artist – so it’s not unique.

Note: if I remove the meta[property=og:url] from the header I can make the button backlink to the right url with the ?album parameter. Otherwise it would go back to the default root of the site mysite.com (this does make the lint tool give an error on the missing meta)

I have tried to add into this same function something like:

$("meta[property=og\\:url]").attr("content", "http://mysite.com/?album=<?php echo $albumid; ?>");
$("meta[property=og\\:title]").attr("content", "<?php echo $artistname; ?>");
$("meta[property=og\\:description]").attr("content", "<?php echo $albumname; ?>");

I did this so the meta tags will be changed, just to let the like button show the right description etc. However this doesn’t work.
I understand that facebook scrapes the page (I used the lint tool etc.) but I will never executes javascript, so the meta tags wil stay as default (when first loading the page)

What can I do to make a unique like button, with it’s own description (albumname etc) without making a html page for each one of them (millions of albums in the database…)

I hope it makes sense.

I can’t seem to figure this one out, help please 🙂

Based on the comments below I used the following solution:

you should create the right fb meta tags when the url (with the params ?alb_id=12345) is opened.
That’s enough for the like button to do its job.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your logic is fine, up to the point where you’re setting the meta tags using jquery.
    They should be set using PHP. As you can imagine the scraper won’t execute the jquery, but if it’s fed the already PHP-customized meta tags it will use them (as provided).

    Just have the og:tags prepared server-side, depending on the albumId requested, and it should work. It might not work right away, I remember there used to be occasional caching issues with the scraper before.

    In short, index.php?album=123 will send a different set of og:tags to the scraper than say index.php?album=321. Just set them up server-side.

    <meta property="og:title" content="<?php echo $artistTitle; ?>"/>
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