Add Social Sharing Buttons

[rysrivarshan]

Hi,

I am using Streamline Pro Theme and trying to get around Genesis on a XAMPP installation locally. Though i am new to PHP i am willing to learn and apply things.

I want to add my own social sharing buttons and hence I have the used the below code in my functions.php,

add_filter( 'genesis_post_info', 'post_info_filter' );

function post_info_filter( $post_info ) {

	if ( !is_page() ) {
			$postURL=get_permalink($post->ID);
			$post_content=the_excerpt(); 
			$post_info="<a href='https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?=$postURL&text=$post_content' target='_blank'>Link</a>";
    	return $post_info;
	}	
}

I have few issues and would be really glad if someone could help me,

1) $post_content=the_excerpt(); - This line automatically outputs the excerpt in a <p> tag outside the entry-meta class, but i haven't printed it out, what am i missing here?

2) The output URL is as below:

Link

I am able to get the URL but not the excerpt in the above URL, what am i doing wrong here?

http://localhost

[cdils]

the_excerpt() automatically prints the value to the page. If you want to store the value in a variable and print when you're ready, try get_the_excerpt() instead.

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