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Facebook Share - Logo images not showing up as thumbnails

Hi folks, I know this has been asked many times, yet I have not found an answer that seems to work. I am currently sharing a page with one or more images on it on Facebook. The link is shortened using bit.ly (not sure if this is important, but I thought i'd mention it anyway). All the images show up as thumbnails on Facebook, except th...

Request user to post on their facebook wall

I have a merchandising web site that allows user to buy stuff on my web site. I want to integrate this feature with facebook and enable users to allow my site to post on their wall a message showing that they have purchased an item from my web site. How should I got about doing this. Do I need to create a facebook app to do this? Basic...

Problem in adding Facebook Like Button

Hi, My URL is something like www.example.com/product/?mid=1&pid=B0019DVLN2 If I add this url to the like button it takes only www.example.com/product/?mid=1 and leaves the rest part of the URL. I tried using the facebook lint tool. The problem still didnt get solved. I tried replacing & with & also, but still the problem remains. Tha...

Porting PHP function to Ruby

So as you all probably know already, there is no facebook API for Rails 3 (not well-supported/documented anyway). I am wondering whether porting these PHP API to ruby is a good idea or not. What I mean by porting is writing my own php function that uses FB API and use the output as the ruby input. Is this a good idea? Impossible? ...

facebook connect is working only if re-permitting permissions

Hey! I have a web page with Facebook connect. Today i've checked it after a few days it was working, and i found out that if i connect using a username that didnt have permissions to my app, and he authorize them - he gets authorized. if he connected again (with permissions already added) - i can't recognize his had authorized my app!!...

Using Facebook Single Sign-On

Hi i want to built single sign on using with facebook api and secret key. i am using below code in the index.php: <?php define('FACEBOOK_APP_ID', 'myapikey'); define('FACEBOOK_SECRET', 'secretkey'); function get_facebook_cookie($app_id, $application_secret) { $args = array(); parse_str(trim($_COOKIE['fbs_' . $app_id], '\\"'), ...

XML facebook feed

Can I get an XML feed of my personal facebook news? Is there any existing Perl CPAN modules for parsing the XML feed? ...

Render FBML in Facebook Dialog Popup

I'm working on a facebook page where there is a table of profile images. Onclick for each of these images, I'm using a facebook dialog to show the name, a picture and a description in a popup. The name is stored in the <img> name attribute. The description is stored in the <img> title attribute. The img src is stored in the <img> src at...

Facebook FBML popup dialog with youtube video

I am trying to put a youtube video inside of a pop dialog with fbml. The dialog works and the video plays the first time. The video does not play after the dialog has been closed. Any suggestions? <fb:dialog id="my_dialog"> <fb:dialog-title>Video</fb:dialog-title> <fb:dialog-content><fb:swf swfsrc='http://www.youtube.com/v...

Posting to Friends Wall

In the new PHP SDK is there any way to post to a friends wall? I have seen several apps do it. Like apps that say "your friend asked you a question", and I'm not even a user of that app. Is there any way to do it? I am using an FBML canvas. I already have all the users friends, just need to figure out how to post to the friends they se...

Share Text on Facebook from Android App via ACTION_SEND

Hey everybody, i have an Android app and it supports sending text via other apps. It therefore uses the ACTION_SEND intent and the EXTRA_TEXT field. The chooser presents me with all apps that can handle such an intent. Those are Twitter, EMail, ... and Facebook. But when i select Facebook it opens the browser and goes to the following pa...

Facebook Oauth authorize redirect fails in Internet Explorer for extended permissions

I am using facebook oauth with web authentication and extended permissions My resulting authorization URL ends up like https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/authorize?client_id={myAppId}&amp;redirect_uri={my_redirect_uri}&amp;scope=offline_access,read_stream,friends_activities,user_activities,user_photos,friends_photos,user_location,user_a...

Get count of Facebook status messages WITHOUT reading them all?

I want a simple thing with Facebook API, but I don't know if it's possible. I am building a PHP app (with the official facebook PHP api), that does something with user's status updates. What I would like to know is their total count. However, as I found out, reading ALL status messages by something like $facebook->api('/me/statuses?...

Using a Widgetbox widget in Facebook

I'm trying to take a javascript widget hosted on widgetbox and use it in a standard FBML page. Is there a way this can be done using flash? I've tried to use fb:swf and replace the widget ID in flashvars but it's not pulling in the widget once i do it. <fb:swf imgsrc='http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/2045/playbuttonm.jpg' swfsrc='...

Is PHP still a viable choice to build a massive app like Facebook?

Much has changed since 2003/2004 when Wordpress and Facebook were started. If you were starting Facebook today, knowing in hindsight the functionality and scale required, would you choose PHP (today)? Why or why not? If not, what would you choose as the basis for a massive, interactive, multi-facetted application like Facebook? I know t...

facebook OpanGraph API on Rails (FBGraph)

I am trying to use FBGraph to let my app publish messages on the users wall. However, all of the APIs are kind of foreign to me and I am just trying to change things and see what happens. Right now, I am getting this error message { "error": { "type": "OAuthException", "message": "Invalid redirect_uri: Given URL is not a...

Is an Isometric engine used for social games like farmville, happy island, etc.

1) Is an isometric engine used to render the world in social games. If yes, can you guide me somewhere where I can learn how to use it. 2) Also, how are the houses, buildings, farms and other objects placed via drag and drop. Is there any tutorial for that? Thank you. ...

Facebook fanpage crawler

I would like to write a Facebook fanpage crawler which crawl following information 1) Fan page name 2) Fan count 3) Feeds. I know i can use open graph API to get this, but i want to write some script which will run once in a day and get all these data and dump in my sql db. Is there any better way to do this? Any help is appreciable ...

Facebook like button disable the count.

I added face book like button on my site is there any way to disabled the count which is display next to the button. http://www.knowledgenotebook.com/FB/notShow.png ...

facebook search api

Does anyone know if the facebook search api http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api#search allow us to perform OR queries? ...