Adobe Facebook API Facebook.login VS Facebook.ui popups

Question

I'm currently building an application using the Adobe Facebook API and I've run into an issue where for the login method the Facebook login popup displays but when doing a Facebook share/post the popup is blocked.

This code works fine and displays me a Facebook login popup without question (Firefox):

var permissions:Array = ['publish_stream'];

Facebook.login( onFacebookLogin, { perms:permissions.join(',') } );

However, the following code running in the same application throws up a popup blocker (again Firefox):

Facebook.ui( "stream.publish", "popup", params );

Does anyone know of a work around this issue to make the share popup come up just like the login popup?

Answer 1

Do you call the method as a result of an user action? For example click on a button? If not, that's the reason the pop-up blocker blocks it. If yes, there's an workaround by calling the JS function of the FB API to post on the wall from Flash. That's the way I ussually work with other flash developers. I create JS or PHP functions for various things within the FB API and they call them from Flash, using amfphp ( http://amfphp.sourceforge.net/ ) for PHP and calling Js directly.

Also, Chrome happens to block most pop-ups even if they're the result of clicking a button/link when you do it from Flash.