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gourmet/social-meta
===================

Adds Facebook Open Graph and Twitter Cards support to CakePHP 3.x

v1.0.2(9y ago)255.1k8[2 issues](https://github.com/gourmet/social-meta/issues)MITPHP

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Social Meta
===========

[](#social-meta)

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Adds [Facebook Open Graph](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph) and [Twitter Cards](https://dev.twitter.com/cards/overview) support to [CakePHP 3](http://cakephp.org).

What's included?
----------------

[](#whats-included)

- CardHelper
- OpenGraphHelper

Install
-------

[](#install)

Using [Composer](http://getcomposer.org):

```
composer require gourmet/social-meta:~1.0

```

You then need to load the plugin. In `boostrap.php`, something like:

```
\Cake\Core\Plugin::load('Gourmet/SocialMeta');
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Include the helpers in your `AppView`:

```
public function initialize(array $config)
{
    $this->loadHelper('Gourmet/SocialMeta.Card');
    $this->loadHelper('Gourmet/SocialMeta.OpenGraph');
}
```

Keep in mind that certain configuration option are made available to you. For example:

```
public function initialize(array $config)
{
    $this->loadHelper('Gourmet/SocialMeta.Card', [
        'card' => 'photo',
        'tags' => ['twitter' => [
            'description' => 'Some default description'
        ]]
    ]);
    $this->loadHelper('Gourmet/SocialMeta.OpenGraph', [
        'app_id' => 'xxx'
    ]);
}
```

You are now ready to use the helpers in your view / layout.

For the [Facebook OpenGraph](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph), you will need to use the helper's `html()` method as it will include the defined namespaces:

```
echo $this->OpenGraph->html();
```

or by passing extra options and namespaces:

```
echo $this->OpenGraph->html(['lang' => 'en'], ['foo' => 'http://foo']);
```

You can then render the OpenGraph meta tags:

```
echo $this->OpenGraph->render();
```

which will render the most basic stuff using some black magic, or you could be much more verbose:

```
echo $this->OpenGraph
    ->setTitle('My Page')
    ->setDescription('One of my awesome pages')
    ->setImage('http://link.to/image', ['width' => '200', 'height' => '300'])
    ->render();
```

Other methods: `setType`, `setUri`, `setLocale`, `setName`, `setImage`, `setVideo`

For the [Twitter Cards](https://dev.twitter.com/cards/overview), something similar to that last code example:

```
echo $this->Card
    ->setTitle('My Page')
    ->setDescription('One of my awesome pages')
    ->setImage('http://link.to/image', ['width' => '200', 'height' => '300'])
    ->render();
```

Other methods: `setCard`, `setUrl`, `setData1`, `setLabel1`, `setData2`, `setLabel2`, `setCreator`, `setSite`, `setPlayer`

Patches & Features
----------------------

[](#patches--features)

- Fork
- Mod, fix
- Test - this is important, so it's not unintentionally broken
- Commit - do not mess with license, todo, version, etc. (if you do change any, bump them into commits of their own that I can ignore when I pull)
- Pull request - bonus point for topic branches

Bugs & Feedback
-------------------

[](#bugs--feedback)

License
-------

[](#license)

Copyright (c)2015, Jad Bitar and licensed under [The MIT License](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php).

###  Health Score

36

—

LowBetter than 82% of packages

Maintenance18

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity32

Limited adoption so far

Community15

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity66

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 50% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~233 days

Total

3

Last Release

3604d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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---

Top Contributors

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---

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