Social Bookmarking Submission Code

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Social bookmarking tools such as Digg and del.icio.us can be seen as the latest tools to drive traffic to a website and to provide important links (Read more About Social Bookmarks). These services allow varying degrees of automated submissions, and so this page was created to give you the required code to add to your pages to facilitate submission.

Digg submission code

Digg does not allow complete automated submission, requiring some human interaction. There are two versions of the code: PHP and Javascript.

PHP Digg code

Using PHP, you can create the 'Digg this' link on the server before sending the page to the browser. The code is (all one line):

This produces this link: ">Digg this.

Of course, don't forget to change the http://ekstreme.com to your domain name!.

Javascript Digg code

The Javascript Digg code was first released by Weston Campbell. You can use it as a bookmarklet: just drag the link to your bookmark toolbar. A simplified version of the code is:

This produces this link: Digg this.

del.icio.us submission code

del.icio.us is a very popular social bookmarking service. Its link submission system is similar to Digg's. Again, we have PHP and Javscript codes.

del.icio.us PHP submission code

The PHP code to submit to del.icio.us is:

<a href="http://del.icio.us/post?v=2&url=<?php echo urlencode("http://ekstreme.com" . $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]); ?>&title=<?php echo urlencode($PAGE_TITLE);?>" title="Post to del.icio.us">Post page to del.icio.us</a>

This produces this link: &title=" title="Post to del.icio.us">Post page to del.icio.us

Note the $PAGE_TITLE variable. This needs to be changed to the page's actual title. If you are using blog software or a content management system (CMS), you might find that this variable is already present, but called something else. If not, you can submit the page without a title, but this forces the user to type it in. In this case, the code will be:

<a href="http://del.icio.us/post?v=2&url=<?php echo urlencode("http://ekstreme.com" . $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]); ?>" title="Post to del.icio.us">Post page to del.icio.us</a>

Which produces this link: " title="Post to del.icio.us">Post page to del.icio.us. Notice the difference?

Again, change ekstreme.com to your domain name!

del.icio.us Javascript submission code

The Javascript code is more straightforward:

Output: Post to del.icio.us.

Furl posting code

The Furl submission code is similar to the del.icio.us code above.

If you can contribute more code for other services, please contact me. Thanks!