CCK Version of Facebook-style Micropublisher Needed! (Facebook Style Link Attachment)

Posted by jonthomas83 on September 22, 2010 at 10:26pm

Hi all,

I've been wrestling with this for a while now, and read various conversations about why the Facebook-style Micropublisher module was designed the way it was, without using CCK and non-node based. But looking at the way Drupal is going and the modular approach it is taking, especially with fields being core in D7, I think that this type of functionality would be superb to be able to achieve using the various CCK modules.

Basically, it'd be using the link field, alongside the imagefield and a field for the title and metadata (description) - these would be auto-populated based on (I'm guessing?) an AJAX call to the given URL. The images would use imagecache to resize, on Facebook, the user can choose from any number of images for the attachment that best represents the link in question, limited only by the number images on the given URL. The title of the page is also populated at the same time, as well as a brief description of the links' content - either by the first few lines of text on the page or maybe the "description" meta.

I'm no programmer, but would be willing to help in any way I could to get this off the ground. If anyone else feels the same please lend your thoughts to this thread so we can get the ball moving!

Apologies, this is my first post in this group, hope it's the right place! :)

Many thanks,
Jonathan

Further reading:
http://drupal.org/project/fbsmp - Facebook-style Micropublisher
http://drupal.org/node/539942 - Link field (like Facebook's "share a link" feature)

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Comments

Just went looking for this

Posted by butler360 on September 23, 2010 at 8:47pm

Just went looking for this today and found this: http://drupal.org/project/imagefetchr

It's brand new so I haven't tried it but it sounds right based on the description.

This looks like it'll do the

Posted by jonthomas83 on September 23, 2010 at 10:32pm

This looks like it'll do the trick for images! Nice one. Don't think there's much to try yet though, that page only got written today! :)

Hopefully we'll see more soon, fingers crossed it's been built with CCK at the forefront. Be interesting if we could get the metadata fetch sorted too.

Let me know if you get this

Posted by sam.clayton@gma... on September 30, 2010 at 9:34pm

Let me know if you get this working with CCK. I might be interested in building a CCK module.

Web Links module

Posted by publicmind on September 25, 2010 at 12:21pm

If you really insist on a CCK based solution, I would recommend you see the Web Links module and if possible write an add-on for it which does the functionality you require.

Cheers,

I'm scoping this out for my Organization

Posted by ravipjoshi on October 22, 2010 at 4:23pm

Hey folks, I've been searching around for this functionality for a little bit. It's useless for us not to have cck/fields-based solution. The originating request was VERY similar to what my organization needs.

I'm following up on the computed field option, but if anyone gets a solution together I'm very interested.

Good news,

Posted by jonthomas83 on October 27, 2010 at 7:40am

Good news, http://drupal.org/project/imagefetchr is almost ready for release and will do exactly as it says on the tin...

The module is using CCK and filefield to store images associated with nodes and the client-side javascript is designed to search all the node form fields for any URLS to retrieve images from.

This module only retrieves the images from found URLs and not the title or description as the Facebook Share feature does. I'd argue that would be better served as another module to extend functionality of Link fields anyway.

Big thanks to elimuir for the update and information, and of course for your hard work and efforts.

Image Fetchr released

Posted by elimuir on November 18, 2010 at 6:49am

The module has been publicly released. Your use and feedback is greatly appreciated.

http://www.drupal.org/project/imagefetchr

Micropublisher field and form element

Posted by hypertext200 on April 1, 2011 at 5:38am

I developed the same functionality for a client. What I created is a custom form element and field to publish links. It uses oEmbed to embed videos, images and other rich media. This can be done by extending link module too. But you will need to have custom Ajax to extract and load URL contents.

Senior Drupal Developer at DrupalConnect

I am very interested in the

Posted by kirkcaraway on February 16, 2012 at 7:00pm

I am very interested in the solution you show here. Is this available as a module? Thanks.

Heshan, I am also interested

Posted by Marko B on March 17, 2012 at 1:23am

Heshan, I am also interested in this beeing developed. Will you relase this as a module maybe or is this just a hacked up solution?

Drupal Specialist at http://adriadrop.com/

I really need this to

Posted by AntiNSA on April 12, 2011 at 8:43am

I really need this to work..... I am a non profit in China and dont have the skills to create modules, only use them. if there is a working module or you can share your module I would really really appreciate it. The weblinnks does not work for me it seems something very complex and different....

I really would like a cck type fiesld I can add to a content type, and display that content with views fields... Thanks to anyone!

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I am watching the progress of this module

Posted by domineaux on June 30, 2012 at 6:21pm

I would like many or all features of facebook in a proprietary application module for drupal. The privacy issues associated with facebook are a real issue for many people, since they have changed facebook.

The facebook has now become an information harvester and repository, which many now consider a major violation of privacy. It is not sensible to divulge personal information so easily, and have it harvested by outsiders and in some instances by un-friendly interests.

There is so little privacy already. It is unacceptable when you realize how the Facebookers of today will regret all they have divulged. Their thoughts and sharing intimate details about themselves can and will be used by others in all manner of ways in the future.

I am working on site that would be very attractive with Facebook features. I envision making allowances for members not to be compelled to use real names, real addresses and other information that can be used to damage them.
I look forward to having open discussions and sharing without people having to divulge direct personal information that can be used by others for advantage.

Just contact me if anyone

Posted by hypertext200 on June 30, 2012 at 6:55pm

Just contact me if anyone interest on this module?