Social media links

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Social media sharing links

Simple social media links for your projects. Initially created for WordPress projects, however, extremely flexible and easily modified.

Instructions

Add this partial to your PHP file, or port this into another language as you see fit.

socials.php

<?php
    // Get access to $post object
    global $post;
    
    // Get twitter handle
    $twitter = get_field('twitter', 'options');
    
    // define links
    $links = array(
        'facebook' => 'https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=' . get_permalink(),
        'twitter'  => 'https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text='. get_the_title() .'&url='. get_permalink() .'&via='. $twitter,
        'mail'     => 'mailto:?subject='. get_the_title() .'&body=Take a look at this link - ' . get_permalink(),
        'linkedin' => 'https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url='. get_permalink() .'&title='. get_the_title() .'&summary=' . get_the_excerpt(),
        'gplus'    => 'https://plus.google.com/share?url=' . get_permalink()
    );
?>

<nav class="share" role="menu" aria-label="Share Links">
    <li class="share__item">
        <a href="<?php echo $links['facebook']; ?>" class="share__link"><span class="icon icon--xlarge icon--social-fb"></span><span class="is-hidden">Share this Post on Facebook</span></a>
    </li>
    <li class="share__item">
        <a href="<?php echo $links['twitter']; ?>" class="share__link"><span class="icon icon--xlarge icon--social-tw"></span><span class="is-hidden">Share this Post on Twitter</span></a>
    </li>
    <li class="share__item">
        <a href="<?php echo $links['mail']; ?>" class="share__link"><span class="icon icon--xlarge icon--social-mail"></span><span class="is-hidden">Share this Post via Email</span></a>
    </li>
    <li class="share__item">
        <a href="<?php echo $links['linkedin']; ?>" class="share__link"><span class="icon icon--xlarge icon--social-li"></span><span class="is-hidden">Share this Post on Linked In</span></a>
    </li>
    <li class="share__item">
        <a href="<?php echo $links['gplus']; ?>" class="share__link"><span class="icon icon--xlarge icon--social-gp"></span><span class="is-hidden">Share this Post on Google Plus</span></a>
    </li>
</nav>