GetSocialPublishURL

Overview

Retrieves the URL of a social network from a lookup table and creates a link to that social network for use with content to be shared from an email. The optional pairs of parameters refer to additional information like ShareThis publisher ID numbers and logins. You can include multiple name and value pairs. Use this function with the Social Forward feature.

Syntax

GetSocialPublishURL(1, 2, 3, 4)

Function Properties

Ordinal	Type		Description
1	numeric	Required	Number of the social network on the lookup table
2	string	Required	Name of the content area to share to the social network
3	string		Name of optional parameter
4	string		Value of optional parameter

Usage

In the pasted HTML code below, the GetSocialPublishURL() function creates a link to Facebook in order to share the specified content area on that network.

Social Network	Number Code
Facebook	1
Del.icio.us	2
Digg	3
MySpace	4
StumbleUpon	5
Google	6
Microsoft	7
Yahoo	8
LinkedIn	9
ShareThis	10
Twitter	11
Google+	15

<!-- RegionStart[ name:'Shared content region 1',
title:'First shared email content',
description:'This is an example of shared content',
csskey:'portfolio css 1'] -->
<tablewidth='100%'bgcolor='#FFFFFF'border='0'bordercolor=''cellpadding='5'cellspacing='0'>
<tr>
<tdstyle='font-family:Arial; font-size:13px'>
<imgsrc='http://example.com/images/logo.jpg' title='logo'align='left'border='0'/>
<p id='text-placeholder'style='margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;'>This is an example of a shared content area!&amp;nbsp; Please feel free to pass on this information!<br/>
<br/></p>
<!-- Creates a link to share this content with facebook -->
<a href='%%=GetSocialPublishURL('1','Shared content region 1')=%%'
alias='Social Forward to Facebook'
title='Publish to Facebook'>
<img src='http://images.dev2.et.local/lib/ffcf14/m/1/social_default_facebook_icon.jpg' alt='Facebook' title='Facebook' border='0'></a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- RegionEnd[ name:'Shared content region 1'] -->