facebook-application

Facebook application framework

I am new to facebook application. I am a ASP.NET developer but also have knowledge of PHP. I just want to know if i have to choose facebook application API/framework, which one i should choose ASP.NET or PHP. One of my friend suggest that Facebook itself build in PHP and they officially support PHP API, so use PHP facebook application AP...

Facebook API: FB.Connect.requireSession issues

I have a Facebook app that is built as an iFrame. I am using the JavaScript client API loaded via: http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php In my initialization code, I use the requireLogin method to ensure that the user has authorized the app. I have found this to be necessary to be able to gather t...

Add a 'cancel' button in an iframed page in a facebook <fb:request-form> that closes a parent popup

This came up for me today and I wanted to share a solution for anyone else with this problem. This is a bit of a hack but as we all know working inside facebook is like that sometimes. I have an application that lives in an iframe and inside that main iframe I have another iframe. I wanted to add a 'cancel' button to a fb request form t...

Facebook Connect: Send email to proxy address?

When users connect to my site with facebook connect i use this code to get their proxied email: $user_details=$fb->api_client->users_getInfo($_SESSION['fb_uid'], array('last_name','first_name','proxied_email')); $email = $user_details[0]['proxied_email']; It works fine, i get strange-looking-emails ending with @proxymail.facebook.com....

spotty image loading in FBML app?

I have an FBML app I built which is working pretty good but the images are loading really spotty, it's just a simple image tag like this: <img src="http://c0200801.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/Surfboard83_thumbnail.jpg"/&gt; The images are hosted on Cloud Files CDN which works great for every website I use them for. But sometime...

The calling thread must be STA, because many UI components require this.

I am using : http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/Facebook_API.aspx I am trying to call the xaml which is created using WPF. But it gives me a The calling thread must be STA, because many UI components require this. error I don't know what to do. I am trying to do this: FacebookApplication.FacebookFriendsList ffl = new FacebookFrie...

Can't see multiple-friends-selector in an iframe based canvas page

Hi, i have a facebook application running in an iframe canvas page. I connect to facebook with facebook connect and now i want that multiple friends selector. But it doesnt appear. I tried a Facebook fanbox - no problem, the fanbox appears correctly. Here is the code of the multipe friend selector: <fb:serverfbml style="width: 650p...

Secure a script from outside access?

Ok, here is the problem. I have a facebook application where users can earn points for completing surveys. When the user has completed the survey, at the end of the survey a tracking pixel is fired to credit the users account. The pixel loads a script like the one below: http://www.mysite.com/fb/add-credit.php?userid=&lt;fbid&gt; I w...

Is it possible to get all the UIDs of the admins of a facebook page?

I have a Facebook page and would like to get a list of all admins. I have tried using the page and page_admin FQL tables, but they require that I specify a UID. I know we can check if a specific UID is a page admin or not but what we are trying is to know who the admins are without the user telling us. ...

Errors when testing facebook application.

I am trying to test my application on facebook. But i keep getting the following errors: Errors while loading page from application Parse errors: CSS Error (line 35 char 17): Error in parsing value for property.: 'font-style' Declaration dropped. FBML Error (line 53): illegal tag "body" under "fb:canvas" FBML Error (line 54): illega...

Permission dialog on Facebook iframe app not closing after accept

Hello there I'm writing an iframe app from which I need to update user wall status. First I place a fb:login-button, which opens a popup asking user to login in Facebook. after loging in the callback takes the app to a page where the user is asked to grant permissions. I'm using this code to get permission for offline access and statu...

Playing videos in facebook application

Hello, How do I play videos in facebook fbml application? Is there a tag for that? ...

Facebook Connect: what type of user profile information can be retrieved?

When enabling Facebook Connect, any facebook user can then login to your website, what type of user profile information can my website retrieve? Username? Email? First Name? Last Name? ...

Facebook: Session Key in Application Tab on Fan Page

Is this possible? I have my application installed on a Fan Page's tab. I want to call certain methods like Photos.get, and can't of course, without a session key. Basically I'm wanting to get the photos belonging to that Fan Page, not the visiting user. Anyway for me to call such methods in this scenario? Thanks in advance! ...

facebook: why I can't send email from app to user?

I can't send email to my app users, even though I have the permissions. I am working with the java library, although I don't think it is related to that. long uid = ...; Collection<Long> uids = new ArrayList<Long>(); uids.add(uid); FacebookXmlRestClient client = new FacebookXmlRestClient(api, secret); boolean sendEmailPerm = client.use...

Facebook Game Development - Which Programming languages?

Hi folks, I am going to develop a facebook game as topic for my thesis. I am wondering which programming languages i should choice. I am used to programming in .NET. But i am also comfortable in C++ and Java. I don't want to use Flash as the graphical frontend since i don't like it. So i guess i'll go with ASP.NET + Silverlight. Wha...

Creating an application for facebook that could gather data on page views by others

Is it possible to pull the information on someone viewing someone else's profile? Would that app be leagal on Facebook? There are lot of "fake" apps like that exist now on Facebook. But can that be done really? ...

How is this tab built? StaticFBML or an Application?

GetSatisfaction built an amazing Facebook tab that goes into the Facebook fan page. Is this built using StaticFBMl or is this a Facebook application? Facebook Applications usually need to be approved before they can be loaded. But this is too much work to be done within StaticFBML I guess. Edit: Here is the link http://www.facebook.com...

Dynamic iframe source on facebook pages

I am trying to make it easy for users of our site to deploy widgets hosted on our server on their facebook pages, as an iframe. We don't want to use coz apparently they are not allowed and wont be supported in the future [ http://is.gd/aNhUr ] Following the instructions here ( http://is.gd/aNgIU ), this is what we did : a) We creat...

Facebook canvas app ASP.NET MVC HttpException: Invalid Model

I am working on a Facebook tab application. I am using asp.net MVC 2 with the "official" Microsoft Facebook SDK. Most of my views are working just fine. However, I have one that is causing a huge mess. I am simply returning a List<Tags> to the view and as my ViewModel. This problematic view is simply displaying the list in a foreach l...