Sharing old data in addthis plugin instead sharing new updated data - php

I'm using this url to share on social n/w's, all are working fine,
If i share it on social's like facebook, it works well, but if second time i made any changes in item name or description then it shares old data instead of sharing new updated data.
<!-- Facebook Share Components -->
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="111111111" />
<meta property="og:image" content="<?php echo $img_path;?>"/>
<meta property="og:title" content="www.abc com"/>
<meta property="og:description" content="<?php echo $itemDetail['item_description'];?>"/>
<meta property="og:url" content="http://abc com/abcd.php?id=<?php echo $_GET['item_id'];?>"/>
<meta property="og:site_name" content="abc"/>
<meta property="og:type" content="website"/>
How to clear old data from facebook or from other social's after sharing? I think it's storing that data in cookies or whatever it is.
Here I give space near dot in dot com(cz not allowed)

It's not being stored in a cookie, it's actually being stored by Facebook. There's no way to programmatically force FB to re-scrape your page. You can use the following to tell FB to re-scrape your page, but I don't think it's possible to do after a share.
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object
Why do you need to update the values after each share?

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Facebook og meta tags - scraper fetches nothing

So I have this cakephp project, when I share the link to facebook i don't get og:description, og:image etc, even though everything seems to be there.
My code: (Views/Layouts/default.ctp)
<head>
...
<meta property="og:url" content="<?=Configure::read('og_url');?>landing" />
<meta property="og:title" content="<?=Configure::read('app_title');?>" />
<meta property="og:description" content="<?=Configure::read('og_description');?>" />
<meta property="og:image" content="<?=Configure::read('og_image');?>" />
...
</head>
I initialize everything in bootsrap.php so all my files can have access to these values.
Which produces this, View Page Source:
<head>
...
<meta property="og:url" content="https://www.philippidescompetition.com/landing" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Back To School Spin & Win! " />
<meta property="og:description" content="Συμπλήρωσε τα στοιχεία σου και παίξε "Spin & Win"!" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://www.philippidescompetition.com/img/wheel/og_image_s.jpg" />
...
</head>
So far so good, but when I share the link on facebook I don't get any of the meta data.
I tried the debugger tool, but it didn't really help.
I want to share philippidescompetition.com/landing this link, which redirects to the facebook app page or to the actual url philippidescompetition.com/users/register on my server, according to if its from a desktop or mobile, so am thinking this redirect causes the issue, but if I share philippidescompetition.com/users/register which doesn't have a redirect, all meta data are still empty
Any ideas?
You need to add an exception to your automatic redirect for the Facebook scraper.
It can be recognized by its User-Agent, see https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/faqs#faq_1748179212062572

addcustomtag doesn't work on joomla 2.5

On one of my pages on website, I noticed some meta properties for Facebook (og properties)
However, I want to change them to another og properties.... but the page is dynamic and for different users shows different content, I wanted to insert metas right in php code which generates the page content.
I tried to use
JFactory::getDocument()->addCustomTag('<meta property="og:type" content="articles" />');
But no reaction... old meta roperty og:type didn't change.
Please, suggest some way to edit page metas or way to use addCustomTag correctly.
Thanks
Joomla doesn't add open graph meta tags by default. You have to find the 3rd party plugin or the template setting that creates them and disable it.
You could place then the new og tags using JDocumentHTML/addCustomTag function. Here is an example:
$doc =& JFactory::getDocument();
$doc->addCustomTag( '
<meta property="og:title" content="" />
<meta property="og:type" content="" />
<meta property="og:url" content="" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="" />
' );
Hope this helps
I have JFB Connect extension installed, so I just used {SCOpenGraph image=PATH} JFB shortcode to change the old metas.

Facebook ignores Open Graph meta data of my page

I am going crazy over this, like going gray haired instantly.
I hope someone can help me.
I am currently developing a website which has accommodations.
They have a page for each accommodation with details of that item.
Before the document is put out to the browser, I collect all meta data for Open Graph with php and output it all in the head of the document with the use of og meta tags.
A strange thing happens at all these pages, for example http://parclaclusure.internetanders.nl/nl/accommodaties/lodgetenten/
Because when I use the Facebook Debugger on that url it comes up with different results than the browser gives me in the source code.
The things I did to rule out any problems on my part:
Checked the HTML with the W3C validator, it checks out, no errors
Used an extra parameter to ensure that de meta data is not cached # Facebook, like adding ?test=1234 to the url
Search on Stackoverflow (and the rest of the interwebs) for the same problem, couldn't find any
Can anyone point out what's wrong with my og meta tags? or why they are ignored/changed in Facebook. (Facebook uses the og meta data of a page located 1 step higher -> http://parclaclusure.internetanders.nl/nl/accommodaties/)
Note: Please be discrete with the website address, because it's a development environment and not yet meant to go public, live or viral :P, thanks!
It looks like a session problem. I have the feeling a session is set after all the required data is loaded.
What I notice is that after a page refresh I see different content.
Hope this helps...
You need to check your page with the OpenGraph Debugger : https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
It will update the content of your OG tags in Facebook. It doesn't update the content each time someone share your page, only on debug.
EDIT : On your code :
<meta property="og:image" content="http://parclaclusure.internetanders.nl/uploads/defaults/default.facebook.png" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://parclaclusure.internetanders.nl/uploads/images/300x300-e04fcee6a2ba22c917d1c45e6c61b926.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://parclaclusure.internetanders.nl/uploads/images/300x300-0cb0ca4759b278c22f075c781a628956.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://parclaclusure.internetanders.nl/uploads/images/300x300-6c63e58a9ba8d555f277d34d2daeddc5.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://parclaclusure.internetanders.nl/uploads/images/300x300-73f0f66a0d05d0bf570254f1eb7072f8.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://parclaclusure.internetanders.nl/uploads/images/300x300-063fcc1f10db6bdb3e2d3c4d053f76db.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://parclaclusure.internetanders.nl/uploads/images/300x300-1c0526d2cc3c916fc3c67d0b83e6f7f9.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://parclaclusure.internetanders.nl/uploads/images/300x300-a850047c2225b1b9e5d5fddae1d1c7bf.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://parclaclusure.internetanders.nl/uploads/images/300x300-25094d3a08fb093983dedffdcaf14c88.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://parclaclusure.internetanders.nl/uploads/images/300x300-3414c0ad4780a27ad8326007ec3987ae.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://parclaclusure.internetanders.nl/uploads/images/300x300-845b24160e9fe438e851a6b2fb17af17.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://parclaclusure.internetanders.nl/uploads/images/300x300-0e2b4efe0d30745ea34afc9b01bb6eb4.jpg" />
What do you expect from this ? You are supposed to have only one OG:image metatag...

Facebook meta tag added, but link share on Facebook doesn't show

I have read and follow: this link, but the problem still exist.
My site is http://crossrt.net/election2013 and code below is added to tag.
<meta property="og:title" content="General Election 13 unofficial website"/>
<meta property="og:url" content="http://crossrt.net/election2013"/>
<meta property="og:image" content="http://crossrt.net/election2013/images/icon.png"/>
and the Facebook show me:
but when i share my url on Facebook, nothing is show:
Although this had been past about 22 days, but now only answer to this question. Perhaps the answer can help for someone. Following is the current meta tag:
<meta property="og:title" content="General Election 13 unofficial website"/>
<meta property="og:description" content="Unofficial website of election" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://crossrt.net/election2013/"/>
<meta property="og:image" content="http://crossrt.net/election2013/images/icon.jpg"/>
What mistake I make in this question is that I use PNG transparent image as the og:image, so now I have a new JPG to replace it.
I know this is quite stupid, but it does fix my problem. Everything works well now.

PHP, Zend, Facebook Share (Change the content)

How can I change the content of my facebook share option? my web app is written on PHP with Zend Framework. I want to change the content of the facebook share option instead of the description that was already been in the website.
If you use fb social plugin, it reads the open graph tags.
<meta property="og:title" content="title" />
<meta property="og:description" content="description" />
<meta property="og:image" content="thumbnail_image" />
You can set those in zend by using in controller
$this->view->headMeta()->setProperty('og:description','asdasdasd');
$this->view->headMeta()->setProperty('og:title',"title here");
$this->view->headMeta()->setProperty('og:image',"url");
if you dont want to use that open graph tags,
Creating Your Own Share URL
https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?s=100&p[title]=titlehere&p[url]=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yoururlhere.com&p[summary]=yours description
Open that URL in a browser, when user click share icon/link.
Btw, share is deprecated.
FYI: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/share/
FB Share description:
You can control the exact title, description, and thumbnail that Facebook Share uses by adding the following meta tags to the element in your page:
<meta property="og:title" content="title" />
<meta property="og:description" content="description" />
<meta property="og:image" content="thumbnail_image" />
please read more here:
regards.

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