Errors with Social Bookmarking links

webmaster Joined: Mar 11, 2008 Posts: 19

I added StumbleUpon to the social bookmarking links. I used the code for Reddit as an example. Now I am noticing that for both Reddit and StumbleUpon, the links have "25" in places throughout. When I submit to StumbleUpon, I am taken to a bad url link. I haven't tried submitting to Reddit yet, but I can see the same thing in those links.

Here is an example of the link produced for StumbleUpon:

Code:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.mccogic.org


%252Fmodules.php%253Fname%253DNews%2526file%253Darticle%2526sid%253D


&title=Naomi+Watts%253A+%2527Funny+Games%2527+Interview

You can see the 25 before each item.

Here is the code from includes/nukeSEO_SB.php:

Code:

$bookmarks["reddit"] = array ( 


               "siteurl"   => "http://reddit.com/submit?url={MYNUKEURL}&amp;title={MYNUKETITLE}",


               "siteimgsm"   => "images/socialbookmarks/reddit_sm.png",


               "siteimglg"   => "images/socialbookmarks/reddit.png",


               "imgalt"   => "reddit this"


            );


$bookmarks["stumbleupon"] = array ( 


               "siteurl"   => "http://stumbleupon.com/submit?url={MYNUKEURL}&amp;title={MYNUKETITLE}",


               "siteimgsm"   => "images/socialbookmarks/stumbleupon_sm.gif",


               "siteimglg"   => "images/socialbookmarks/stumbleupon.gif",


               "imgalt"   => "stumbleupon this"


            );

Any idea what could be causing this and how I can fix it.

I do not see any reason why that wouldn't work. The file seems to use a htmlentities check to get rid of garbage like that.
Which version of nuke are you using?
I tried to check your site (presumably it's the one in the url you posted) but it gave me an error.

I am using Ravennuke 2.20.01. Visit our test site at http://www.mccogic.org/news.html - click on the sb link for reddit and see that it adds "25" throughout the url. StumbleUpon forwards to a bad url page. The Digg link works fine since I changed $s_sid to $sid in index.php to get the article ID number. I haven't tested the other links yet.

I get a 403 forbidden error message on that page to.

The only thing I can think of is if Nuke Sentinel has blocked your IP. Can you pm me with your IP?

Ok. I think I found your IP in my logs and removed the block.

The url is being formed correctly on your site, that is to say, there are no htmlentities in the url so this seems to indicate it is being mutilated at the site you are sending the link to for some reason.
I think that it might be getting mutilated because the link is not built correctly on your site for them to interpret the data.

Guardian wrote:

I think that it might be getting mutilated because the link is not built correctly on your site for them to interpret the data.

I don't know what you mean by "not built correctly." Are you saying this is because of the Ravennuke version I am using? The same thing happens on other Ravennuke sites where I have added the Social Bookmarking Links. Why do the other links work but just not these two? Should I post at the Ravennuke forum for help with this?

No, what I meant was that different social bookmarking sites need the data sent to them in a specific way so it knows what the data is and how to handle it.
For example if you look at the reddit link

Code:




"siteurl"   => "http://reddit.com/submit?url={MYNUKEURL}&amp;title={MYNUKETITLE}",

You can see that reddit 'knows' to expect a url when it finds in the link url= and it expects to find the title of the link after title= so you need to check to make sure that is correct.
If I remember correctly it is actually correct and the link appears correctly when I hover over the link on your site.

I had checked this a couple of times, but after reading your post and checking again, I found a really dumb mistake with StumbleUpon. I forgot the www. in their address. I finally broke down and joined both StumbleUpon and Reddit myself (which I hadn't wanted to do). I tested again, and it works fine now.

Thanks, and sorry for wasting your time.

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