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Hi
The image preview of my facebook posts from my laravel web application do not work. I have been advised atleast by the facebook debug tool to explicitly specify the og meta tags. This however needs to be defined dynamically and not hardcoded.
This is what i have:
<meta property="og:image" content="{{Storage::url('app/public/property/'.$property->image)}}"/>
However i get the following error according to the facebook debug tool:
Provided og:image URL, /storage/app/public/property/ was not a valid URL
Please assist with the right syntax for this
you shouldn't need to specify a path app/public/property/ here...
<meta property="og:image" content="{{ Storage::url($property->image) }}"/>
When using the local driver, all files that should be publicly accessible should be placed in the storage/app/public directory. Furthermore, you should create a symbolic link at public/storage which points to the storage/app/public directory.
@webrobert can you elaborate further on how to do this, should i be specifying in the header the og:url meta tag? and if so what should it be?
@screwtape_mk header? Where did I write or reference header?
@webrobert i ended up applying the following snippet of code in the main view for which i wanted a post preview:
@section('meta-tags')
@php
$firstImage = $property->gallery->first();
@endphp
@if($firstImage)
<meta property="og:image" content="{{ Storage::url('app/public/property/gallery/'.$firstImage->name) }}" />
@else
<meta property="og:image" content="{{ asset('frontend/images/placeholder/placeholder-property-single-image.jpg') }}" />
@endif
@endsection
because the images are in a slider and wanted to just grab the first image as a preview image.
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