Social Metadata Image Issue

Resolved DownRightGamer
(@rcarmichael)

4 years, 9 months ago

Roland, the one i’m having trouble with is the og:image. When I do:
Participants_Db::files_uri() . $record->print_value('photo')

it’s pulling straight from the database and the path is not correct.
Here’s what it’s printing (which is not an image):
<meta property="og:image" content="https://tamuphysastr.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/directory/ryan_carmichael_science_4x4">

But the true path should be more like using print_value('photo') which spits out this long thing:
<meta property="og:image" content="<span class="pdbiex-image-field-wrap pdb-image pdbiex-image display-mode-image"><img src="https://tamuphysastr.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/directory/2019/07/ryan_carmichael_science_4x4-400x400.jpg" alt="ryan_carmichael_science_4x4" /></span>">

You can see my dilemma… even though this is a real image location, it has all the ugly html wrapped around it, so it won’t work. You can see I’ve got year/month added to the image path as well.

Do you have any sort of solution?

Thanks,
Ryan

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Plugin Author xnau webdesign
(@xnau)

4 years, 9 months ago
You need to add the plugin’s file location URL to the field value (which is simply the filename) to get your absolute URI for the image…like this:
```
<?php
echo Participants_Db::files_uri() . $record->get_value('photo');
?>
```
Thread Starter DownRightGamer
(@rcarmichael)

4 years, 9 months ago

Sorry, that was a typo of mine above. I said I got the image value using:
Participants_Db::files_uri() . $record->print_value('photo')

When i’ve actually been using:
echo Participants_Db::files_uri() . $record->get_value('photo');

Which, as stated above, gives me a bad image URL:
<meta property="og:image" content="https://tamuphysastr.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/directory/ryan_carmichael_science_4x4">

Sorry for the confusion. Do you have a resolution? Thank you.

Plugin Author xnau webdesign
(@xnau)

4 years, 9 months ago

Are you using the image expansion kit add-on? That changes things a lot.

Thread Starter DownRightGamer
(@rcarmichael)

4 years, 9 months ago

Yes, I am. 🙂 Love it by the way.
Plugin Author xnau webdesign
(@xnau)

4 years, 9 months ago
Right, so that will change how you need to the the URI because the image file is actually in the media library.

There is a helper function in the image expansion kit you can use for that:
```
<?php
$uri = get_attachment_url_by_slug( $record->get_value('photo') );
<?
```
Thread Starter DownRightGamer
(@rcarmichael)

4 years, 9 months ago

Roland, you’re awesome! 😀 That worked perfectly!!!

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