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How do you remove the "box head" in a Facebook application?

I'm currently developing a Facebook application which will eventually end up on a Facebook Page. The problem is that I don't know how to remove the box header (handle?) with the application name and the close-button. I've seen other applications on Pages being able to remove the header. Look at Apples Page here: http://www.facebook.com/...

Successful sites using Asp.NET and the Facebook API

Are there any sites out there that have been built with asp.net and facebook api? I am looking for some ideas and inspiration for doing some social networking web programming. I did find some asp.net/facebook blog entries but still could not find any site that has successfuly done some work in this area. ...

My Facebook application's Javascript doesn't work in Google Chrome

My Facebook application contains Javascript that works in Firefox and IE, but aborts in Chrome. In the Javascript console it gives several errors.including: Uncaught TypeError: Object onloadhooks has no method 'replace' There are similar errors complaining about a missing method for 'toLowerCase'. Stop Press Problem no longer occurs...

Hosting a Facebook Application?

I have looked on FaceBook Developer page and found that it's possible to create a FaceBook application, however this application must be hosted by you! I'm new, does any one have an experience on that? ...

Does the Facebook REST API allow you to get a friend's phone number?

Hi, Using the Facebook API, is there a way of getting a friend's phone/cell number? I'm sure I saw an app a while ago that could sync Facebook with your Mac Address Book, but I haven't found anything in the API documentation that allows you to get a friend's number. Is this possible? Thanks in advance. ...

What's the good way to get messages from a specific facebook wall?

There is a groupwall of which i wanna download and store all messages in a db. In the documentation I cannot find a good way to do it. Did I miss something? What's the good way to do this? ...

Facebook Connect and ASP.NET

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...

Is it possible / how to get number of a particular Facebook Group members (even if number of them is 500+)?

I need to monitor number of the facebook group users and display it on the website. I know that it is possible to get User IDs using their API, but they are limited to 500 only (if the total number of members is 500+). What would be the easiest way to get total number of members that signed up to a Facebook Group that I'd set up? Is th...

How to identify if a webpage is being loaded inside an iframe or directly into the browser window?

I am writing an iframe based facebook app. Now I want to use the same html page to render the normal website as well as the canvas page within facebook. I want to know if I can determine whether the page has been loaded inside the iframe or directly in the browser? ...

What is the fate of OpenID?

Google has announced Google Friend Connect, and Facebook has announced Facebook Connect. Both services seek to solve the Single Sign On problem. Since OpenID was created to solve this issue, will it fail against the twin heavyweights of Facebook and Google? ...

Facebook sharer, pass in a comment?

Is it possible to post a description/comment variable to the facebook sharer url? It's only possible for url and title as far as I can figure out. ...

Posting feeds in facebook, can't use the API.

I'm getting a "Call to undefined method" when I try to use feed API functions like registerBundleTemplates and feed_publishUserAction. Google has led me to believe that I need to call a function called useBetaApiServer, but I can't find any example on how to call it with PHP. Any help? ...

Facebook Bookmark

Hi there How to post required text instead of meta description using Facebook bookmark ...

What is a good resources to add content snippets (widgets) to many sites like iGoogle, Facebook and MySpace, etc

I have found services like ClearSpring and Widgetbox for putting content snippets onto a widget range of social networking web sites, but I would like to build my own widgets without a third party dependency. I have been looking but I have not yet found a good resource to learn how to create widgets/gadgets for multiple sites. It was eas...

Link to Application Tab from Profile box (Facebook app)

I would like to place a link from my application's narrow profile box to it's application tab on the same profile. I have combed through the FBML documentation to no avail. I have posted this question on the Facebook dev forums. I have experimented with pasting the URL of the tab into the profile box link without success (ajax may be g...

Is there a "share this" for Facebook which isn't a pop-up?

I want to add "share this on Facebook" to a page. I've got this working just fine using this URL format: http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=my.url.here but the problem is, that's designed specifically to be a popup window, so the page looks weird at full browser size the buttons are a long way from the fields after submission, the ...

PHP function to get Facebook status?

I'm looking for a good, simple PHP function to get my latest Facebook status updates. Anyone know of one? Thanks! EDIT: I've added a half-solution below. Or if anyone knows a good way to read in the RSS feed and spit out the recent status update? ...

What are the Facebook app FBML 'profile.setFBML' arguments?

Okay so I've read the documenation: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Profile.setFBML And I'm not quite sure what the arguments being passed are. I'm looking at the the listed example request: $facebook->api_client->profile_setFBML(NULL, 128009, 'profile', NULL, 'mobile_profile', 'profile_main'); and thinking, where are th...

Facebook Style API Design

I am working on designing an api/application structure to mimick facebook's for a project of mine. I am wondering what the best way of going about authenticating users is. For an app how do I give them the nessecaru credentials and how do I authenticate those credentials? ...

Facebook default profile box fbml

Updated an application on Facebook, and was trying to provide a new image to show up as a box on a user's profile when they add it. I added fbml to the default fbml box on the User Profile tab for the app, but it's still showing the old fbml from the previous app. googling tells me that this is probably a 'feature' of the facebook cach...