facebook-connect

Authentication without a username and a password

Hi, I'm working on an AIR application that connects to facebook. After the user connects to his facebook account he should be able to do stuff to the account linked to the facebook account he's logged into. Typically, you'd have a login() function that accepts a username and a password, authenticates them and sets a cookie. In my case,...

How does an IM service such as "digsby" works?

I would like to create an IM that includes Facebook chat, I've been looking around for sometime but I haven't been able to find out how can this be done. How do services such as "Digsby" manage to do this? I mean, since there's still no API for it (or none that I've found for that matter) and Facebook Connect, doesn't permits this functi...

Facebook: Application Menu points to Connect URL for Facebook application

I have an IFrame app, and I would like to use some Connect features using javascript. But when I set the Connect URL in the application settings, it then causes two problems. 1) The link for the app in the Application Menu now points to: http://mydomain.com/myapp/ instead of: http://apps.facebook.com/myapp/ 2) The request open...

How to add my Django application in Facebook?

I'm developing a Django application. I need to authenticate users using Facebook and get the user's friends list to invite them to my site. To do this my application has to be registered with Facebook to get the API key. In the process of doing so I'm struck with the list of settings. "http://localhost/login" --> this is the login page...

Need to display friends list from facebook on to my app ? Need help in FBML

hi, After authenticating the user i need to get the users friends list I got the user name and photo by below code <'fb:profile-pic uid='loggedinuser' facebook-logo='true'><'fb:profile-pic> "Welcome, <'fb:name uid='loggedinuser' useyou='false'><'/fb:name>. I need to display friends list here ,Please suggests how to do this with uid...

Problem with facebook friends_get function

The snippet below is supposed to get a friends list from a user's Facebook profile into my app: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php"&gt; </script> <script type="text/javascript"> FB_RequireFeatures( ["XFBML"], function() { FB.Facebook.init("xx...

Facebook Connect showFeedDialog

Hi, I would like to use FB.Connect.showFeedDialog(...), but without it being a popup, is that possible? ...

Facebook Connect - So how do I generate a user name?

We have a social site, and want to integrate facebook connect to save time on the user needing to select their gender, etc. etc. and also use FB Connect as a method to skip signing up with us. Each user on our site has a unique user name that they go by... One thing I can't wrap my head around, is if someone logs in with Facebook connec...

Facebook App maintenance considerations

If I write a Facebook App for a client (I'd probably be the "developer" working with a marketing agency, with one or more Facebook apps as market of a social media strategy), it's not just a fire and forget project, is it? From what I've read so far, the Facebook API is still in flux, and fixes and changes that Facebook makes can break ...

Can my website *safely* allow logins via Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, OpenID, *and* etc?

Is it possible for a website to allow users to log in via multiple different methods, like Facebook Connect, OpenID, etc? Not referring to simultaneous logins of the same user, but wondering if it's possible to have multiple "SSO" options. Is there a side-effect of a user with credentials at, say, OpenID and Facebook logging in as bot...

Dealing with multiple login systems (Facebook Connect, Google Account, and others)

If you want to allow your site users to be able to login with Facebook Connect, Google Account, etc, how do you design your database so that they are all integrated? ...

How to justify Facebook Connect/API application development

Hello! I'm currently working for a company that doesn't have any Facebook presence. I've been having thoughts about working a rogue project that involves Facebook connect and API integration with our current web application. My plan is to develop a working demo, then show at 80% completion and somehow justify its existence, but I have ...

FB Feed dialog not asking for user comments ?

Why FB Feed dialog below (iframe solution) is not asking for user comments on dialog, the dialog appears and post is sent function callback() { alert("Thank you"); } function showFeed() { FB_RequireFeatures(["XFBML"], function(){ FB.Facebook.init('kkkc', '/facebook/xd_receiver.htm', null); FB.ensureInit(f...

Facebook Chat API

Hi, How can I send/receive Facebook Chat messages from my application? its written in .Net, C#. ...

RPXnow Facebook Connect - Use and Level of support?

I am using RPXnow.com authentication solution for a rails app and am now at the point of wanting to develop Facebook integration features using Facebook Connect and the client api. What I am unclear on from RPXnow docs is the level of integration their solution provides. When a user connects via rpx using their FB creds, are they now usi...

Facebook session is expired even though I am logged in to facebook

Hi, I am using facebooker with rails and when I log in via facebook connect, for a new user registration ,I get a session expired when I retrieve details like first_name etc.. Note that when I browse to facebook.com I am logged in..But it seems like that my app has an old session. How do I fix this? ...

Facebook offline access step-by-step

After searchinge litteraly 1 day on fb and google for an up-to-date and working way to do something seemingly simple: I am looking for a step-by-step explanation to get offline_access for a user for a facebook app and then using this (session key) to retrieve offline & not within a browser friends & profile data. Preferrably doing this...

iPhone + Facebook API: how to detect when need to ask for "extended permissions"?

i just started using Facebook Connect for iPhone. I've been able to create a login/logout button, initiate and resume sessions, and update the Facebook status. However one thing I can't figure out how to do is detect when I need to ask for extended permission (such as is required for updating user status). Once this is done once for m...

Anyone have any knowledge on implementing Facebook Connect on an Asp.Net MVC app? (Or even a good tutorial to look at)

The only tutorial I've found so far is: http://my6solutions.com/post/2009/04/05/Integration-of-Facebook-Connect-on-ASP-NET-MVC.aspx I tried following it but it didn't get me anywhere because it kept saying there were missing methods (I'm guessing because the edited files he gives you is edited from an old copy of the facebook connect so...

Load raw image data using AJAX

I'm trying to do a bit of facebook integration with a website, and there's a particular call on the facebook api that post's a picture onto a users account. One of the parameters is the raw image data. The image is stored locally on the web server and I have a url to it. I was intending to load the image on the client using javascript un...