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iOS

Posted by Laura Paxton
Laura Paxton
2,304 Points

Need to append quotesLabel.text to nameLabel.text to "from Carmel Heart Media." How?

to pass within SLServiceTypeFacebook

here:

var facebookSheet:SLComposeViewController = SLComposeViewController (forServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook)

            facebookSheet.setInitialText quotesLabel.text

(That will post a random quote to Facebook. But, how do I add two more items to also post to Facebook?)

I've tried all kinds of things. I feel stupid.

Laura Paxton
Laura Paxton
2,304 Points

Oh, and this is in Swift.

3 Answers

Ezekiel Elin
Ezekiel Elin
3,839 Points

While I'm not sure if this works, how I'd expect it to work is using + to combine strings

let string = "Hello " + name + ", how are you doing"

http://i.imgur.com/rcZ49sP.png

Laura Paxton
Laura Paxton
2,304 Points
Laura Paxton
Laura Paxton
2,304 Points
  1. At the top of View Controller, I put this:

var messageString:String = " (Sent via the XYZ app from Carmel Heart Media.)"

  1. Further down in the doc, under the social media integration section, I did this:

var postingString = (quotesLabel.text)! + messageString

facebookSheet.setInitialText (postingString)

  1. Problem is that now, I want it to have (quotesLabel.text) + (nameLabel.text) + messageString

and it does not seem to work to combine two text fields together with the messageString.

(See, I want whatever is appearing in the label at that time to be sent to FB or Twitter, and the content of the labels will vary. )

Ezekiel Elin
Ezekiel Elin
3,839 Points

Ok, is this what you're trying to do

http://i.imgur.com/rcZ49sP.png

Laura Paxton
Laura Paxton
2,304 Points
Laura Paxton
Laura Paxton
2,304 Points

Ezekiel, thanks for all your hard work in trying to help me! It has taken me a little over a week now to finally figure out how to do this- It's like this:

var postingString = (quotesLabel.text)! + quotebyString + (nameLabel.text)! + messageString

facebookSheet.setInitialText (postingString)

I have text that randomly shows up in a quotes label and that randomly shows up in a name label. So, I had to set both of them up as outlets with actions so that words could pass through them.

The finished result looks like this:

http://imgur.com/vVddqEs

(It's a religious app.)

The quote came off the quote label, name off the name label and plus the message. It was really hard for me to figure it all out!

BUT now if anyone wants to post different bits and pieces within your app to Facebook using Swift, here is how. :)