Question

I’m trying to integrate facebook share by using images directly from my database.

Static images using the OG tags:

<meta property="og:image" content="http://X.com/image.jpg" />"

Works fine.

However, my images are not static, they are being called from my database using this:

echo "<img src=\"pic.php?id=".$id."\"/>";

Where pictures render fine on my website but facebook share does not pick them up.

The logical thing in my mind then would be to do this:

echo "<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http://X.com/pic.php?id=".$id."\"/>";

Sadly, this does not work.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I suggest you use a URL rewrite to create a friendly URL, e.g.

http://x.com/pic/id

If you are using Apache, that would be a .htaccess file (assuming you have mod_rewrite enabled), something like:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^pic/([^/\.]+)/?$ /pic.php?url=$1 [L]