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Facebook share displaying weird characters

I just added a facebook share icon to my website, when I hit the button the facebook popup displays weird special characters the character won't display here but it's a square with 00 over 97 for example instead of a single quote I tried changing the quote to a the special character ’ but this doesnt' work either also tried mes...

One PHP Library for many social networking sites' authorization?

I know there are many libraries out there for OAuth and for specific sites' authentication and authorization. I'm wondering, is there any one-stop-shopping library that easily, robustly and perhaps modularly integrates with many popular social networking sites? It would be nice to have a single library, which, given a set of IDs (FB, tw...

Facebook Architecture

I have been scrounging for articles/info about the architecture at Facebook, the challenges & ways they tackle them. What they use & why they use. How do they scale & what are the design decisions for what they do etc. Main underpinning being to learn. Knowing about sites which handles such massive traffic gives lots of pointers for arch...

JSON. How many elements are acceptable?

I am running a Facebook application that asks users questions. When they complete one question they move onto another. What I thought about is when they first hit the application the script pulls 300 questions from the database and loads them into either and array or JSON in Javascript. In either case (Array or JSON), how many elements...

Add site icons to links using Jquery

Hi, I have just tested this Jquery script with my site http://cool-javascripts.com/jquery/add-icons-to-your-links-automatically-using-jquery-css.html At present the script creates a default icon for external sites. It would be great to have custom icons for different external sites like Twitter, facebook, and youtube, but I am struglin...

Get Facebook real profile image URL

Hello According to Facebook graph API we can request a user profile picture with this (example): https://graph.facebook.com/1489686594/picture We don't need any Token since it's a public information. But the real image URL of the previous link is: http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/hs356.snc4/41721_1489686594_527_q.jpg If ...

Facebook Stream Publish Issue: Modal stuck "loading..."

I have been experiencing intermittent issues with facebook stream publishes. When a stream publish is called, the modal placeholder pops up with "Loading..." but often never loads. Since the issue comes and goes, I had always assumed facebook itself was the problem. There is no modal error message as would be expected if an invalid param...

Post on a friend's wall on behalf of a user

Hello, I am writing a Facebook application that needs to post on a friend's wall on behalf of a user, but out of the scope of a canvas application. I have the following: App ID App secret publish_stream permissions for the poster This should theoretically be enough to do what I want to. What I am currently doing: Use app ID and app s...

Twitter's new official Tweet Button : who's tested it?

I'm working on a website where a 'Tweet This' type button is essential (as is a facebook 'like'). About a week ago Twitter launched their own official Tweet button. I'm curious to hear anyone's experiences with using it, particularly in comparison to TweetMeme and John Resig's ReTweet script. I'm interested in any performance issues, a...

How can I like a Facebook photo via the Open Graph API?

I have several photos in an album for my Facebook fan page. I wrote a small script that shows the latest image uploaded to that album on the homepage of my blog. I'd like to include a small "like" button next to it. Using the Facebook Graph API, I can specify a URL to like. But when I specify the URL to the image page on Facebook, it...

Ruby on Rails: Adding Facebook login to existing Authlogic login

I have an existing site that is working well with Authlogic login. I'm trying to add Facebook login as an option, using the authlogic_facebook_connect plugin, but it's not working properly. I'm following the instructions located here: http://github.com/jbasdf/authlogic_facebook_connect On my registration form, I added the Facebook con...

Limiting the number of thumbnails on facebook share

So I want users to be able to share this link on facebook but I want only a specific picture to be the thumbnail for this sharing picture and no other images that appear on my web site I read the documentation about facebook share and I got this http://developers.facebook.com/docs/share Basically what I understand is that <link rel=...

Facebook iFrame App. getSession -login- problem

Hello people. I have a problem on FB iFrame app; My php code is below $session = $facebook->getSession(); if ($session) { $params = array('access_token' => $session['access_token']); try { $uid = $facebook->getUser(); $me = $facebook->api('/me', $params); } catch (FacebookApiException $e) { error_...

Session Key & Access Token in Facebook-API

Can someone please explain to me once and for good what are Session Key & Access Token? How do I catch those two? Why and when do I need them? When is it one-time and when is it not? Also, what are the differences between them either the application already installed or not. Please do it in Java. I'm a new-to-facebook-api Java developer...

Facebook API login page in iPhone displays huge webpage.

HI Guys, I tried using facebook API but once i tried integrating it. I noticed that the login form which displays the login form of facebook is so huge that causes it not to fit the whole login window of iPhone. Anyone have an idea how fix this one? Thanks ZaldzBugz ...

Facebook Work History Unavailable

Dear all, I am relatively new to FB development, but I have managed to do what I wanted, which was to get a list of friends, and from each of them, get their work history. I accomplished this by using Facebook's own C# SDK, and using the Get method on each of my friends, basically doing: _fa.Get("/"). This worked perfectly up until a c...

Libraries for Social network integration features with ASP.Net MVC 2.0

I am developing a public website on ASP.Net MVC2.0 and I am looking for open source libraries for Social Network Integration that give me following functionality. User can share a page to their facebook, twitter, linkedin and other accounts Retrieving tweets from an account Facebook "like this" ...

Creating a leaderboard using Facebook APIs and the PHP SDK

Hi All, I'm a new Facebook developer. I'm creating a game and want to include a leader board. I'd like to build a fairly detailed leader board including the following information: 1) Name 2) Pic_Square or profile_pic 3) A general location (UK, USA or LONDON, NY) 4) Score I'm aware of how to get a current users basic information from ...

RoR - How to obtain an access token for the facebook user using OAuth ?

i want create something like "link_to" which can link to "request for permission" in facebook, so if user click "allow" then redirect to my site and i can get their data. my question is how to create a "link" like that? so i can get access token from facebook user. (i had register my app) thx.. ...

facebook application FBML: error code 405 when changing app from Iframe to FBML

Hello. I'm trying to write a simple facebook application using FBML. when I configure my application to work as an IFrame and I view the source i see the following: <html> <head> </head> <body> <fb:swf swfbgcolor="000000" imgstyle="border-width:3px; border-color:white;" swfsrc='http://url/file.swf' width='340' height='270' /> ...