Facebook Connect seems like the cool new way to leverage a user's Facebook account on your own site (get their friends list, write to their profile, etc). What I don't understand is what the new Facebook Connect platform offers over a traditional Facebook App with the Offline Access permission granted. Can anyone help me out by providi...
Hello, I'm at step 8 of the authentication overview found here: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/How_Connect_Authentication_Works In particular, the user has logged into facebook via Facebook Connect and their web session has been created. How do I use the facebook developer toolkit v2.0 (from clarity) to retrieve informa...
I'm trying to build a page on my personal website that both used jQuery and implements Facebook Connect. Unfortunately, the Facebook client API uses the $ token, which means I have to call jQuery.noConflict() Double-unfortunately, I've found out that for some crazy reason and as Rick Strahl points out, jQuery UI doesn't respect noConli...
Does anyone have a simple and successful demo implementation of facebook connect in an asp.net application. I am developing an asp.net web application and want facebook connect to be the primary method for logging in. ...
Background info: I would like to implement a simple commenting mechanism, where people use Facebook Connect to login. I am only saving the uid of users, a date, and some text for every record. Problem: How can I display the names of users, from the server side, not using Javascript, when the visitor is not logged in?? Is there a way to ...
I am developing facebook application in fb:iframe. I do not want to use "feed_publishUserAction" as it requires a session key. Hence trying to use FB.Connect.showFeedDialog. Is it ok to use the latter? Can any one suggest example to use it as I am getting an error saying "Call to undefined function showfeeddialog()". Shud I update my li...
I am building a Facebook Connect application that runs inside a Google gadget. Being a gadget means that the application runs inside an iframe. Inside the application, there is a form that allows registered users to post comments. The submission is made using AJAX, but I get the same results with a normal form. The problem is that I need...
I am trying to display a Facebook user's profile picture using XFBML. I am using the following code: var container = document.getElementById("profilePicture"); var profilePic = new FB.XFBML.ProfilePic(container); //profilePic.setAttribute("uid", userId); FB.XFBML.Host.addElement(profilePic); How do I set the uid attribute of the eleme...
I'm trying to do what is supposed to be fairly simple with facebook connect, but having no luck. When a user logs in, I want to show that users details (refreshed without reloading the page), and when the user logs out, I need to go back to a logged in state. The code I have is function update_user_box(){ jQuery('span#logge...
I have followed the instructions in this great Stackoverflow question but i am not sure about this verify signature thing. Is this provided in some way in the Facebook Toolkit or do i have to do something myself? The documentation is not superclear on how to do this and if it is already baked in the facebook toolkit i don't want to spend...
I'm trying to get my Facebook Connect code to validate, but it won't. I think the problem is that their xmlns page isn't loading. I have the code: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> But http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml isn't found. Does anyone have a cop...
What is the best way to keep the user logged in when something like "third-party" cookies are disabled. I currently have a Facebook connect app (in only PHP) that works great when I have that checked in Firefox, but redirects to my login page when it's unchecked. Even Facebook's own sample application (therunaround) has the same problem ...
I've got a bit of a problem with a Facebook integration. When my users click a link, a function checks if a user is logged into Facebook. If they are not logged in, I set a piece of data, and then run the Facebook login stuff. When Facebook returns that they login, I go check the piece of data that was stored and run the original funct...
Hi, I've been following Stuart's tutorial at http://www.madebymany.co.uk/tutorial-for-restful_authentication-on-rails-with-facebook-connect-in-15-minutes-00523 and have been having a problem: I get a NoMethodError in UsersController#link_user_accounts; Rails doesn’t seem to recognize “facebook_session”. I have facebooker installed an...
Is it possible to use a combination of authentication systems in a web app? I want to use OpenId, however I think my potential customers are actually more likely to have a Facebook ID. Therefore I wonder if it is possible to offer both types of authentication? ...
Are there any best practices or examples of how to best integrate Facebook connect with an existing ASP.NET Application using the Membership provider (or something similar). I'm sure I can get something going, but, it would be great if there was some information and best practices on this to mitigate any security concerns. Currently I...
How can I log a user out from my facebook connect website, without using the fb-login button? I would like to do it from codebehind (c#)? ...
Is stack overflow uisng https://rpxnow.com/ for login in using different services. If so is it good, and does it have good (preferable free, preferable with PHP api) alternatives. What I'm looking for is a login page wich would allow users to login using major web open-id providers + facebook connect. ...
Hi, I have followed this tutorial. I don't want him to be autologgedin if he has logged into facebook, only if he logged into my website. Is there a way to distinguise between the cookie/session if it is set at facebooks own site, or my own? Right now it returns a user if he just logged into facebook, even if he has never logged into my...
I have been looking into using facebook connect for a new web site I am building, however the facebook api seems to be a little flaky. Th code I have been using is basic, however the example application 'therunaround' suffers from similar issues. E.g. friends list does not always load, logged in fb user not always detected. Are these ...