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How to make Joomla FaceBook connect to post Wall Entries?

I'm kinda stuck: Trying to make Joomla's JFBConnect post on the user's FB wall some of the user's actions on the website (forum posts, comments, favorites etc.) Any ideas? API references? Any related Joomla/FB documentation? Thank you! ...

How do I refresh content in the page and update the URL without doing a full page reload?

I thought that JavaScript didn't allow you to update the browser's URL (for bookmarking, etc) without doing a full page refresh. Facebook seems to accomplish this in their photos application, though. When I click "next" to see the next photo, the new photo loads and the URL updates, but the whole page doesn't refresh. Does anyone know...

Jquery parsing html unexpectedly and wrongly

So I have a non-jquery solution to this problem, but I would rather use jquery if there is a way, and also I am very curious as to why this is happening. What is going on is I have a facebook iframe application, and I am using facebox to dynamically load a some xfbml in an on page pop-up. Now the xfbml I have loading happens to be th...

FBJS textarea countdown

I have a textarea element in a Facebook application I want to limit, visually, to a certain number of characters. This is a code snippet I got from the web: <script> function textCounter(textarea, countdown, maxlimit) { textareaid = "ta1"; if (textareaid.value.length > maxlimit) textareaid.value = textareaid.value.s...

Can you change the order of friends in a Fb:multi-friend-selector?

I've noticed two different orderings of friends displayed by a Fb:multi-friend-selector in my app - by uid and alphabetically. There is no attribute for this in the api (http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Fb%3Amulti-friend-selector), but does anyone know if there is a way to control the order they're displayed? ...

fbopen, what does it mean to open source the platfrom?

As developers, will be able to build our facebook-like social applications with it? and giving them attribution is the only cost? Are there real examples who deployed their fbopen-based networks? ...

What information about the Facebook user does the Facebook API allow you?

Their wall and their posts to other friends? ...

Photo Storage Quandry

I have been contracted to store user-contributed photos for a contest run through Facebook. I'm currently having issues uploading files from Facebook to my server (I understand they strip out file variables in post requests, but all the answers I have seen simply say "use an iframe". My app is set up to be an iframe (vs. FBML, in applica...

In Facebook do I need to check permissions before I attempt an email?

Using the API call notifications.sendEmail you can send an email to a application user that has authorised your app and granted the "email" extended permission. Now lets pretend that I have 10 users I need to send an email to. 5 have given me this permission and 5 haven't. Is it necessary that I query FB to see if each user has given m...

How to display images inside the facebook display box

hi i want to display an image inside the facebook display box but it is not working it shows only 1.gif(in text) and image is not showing plz help [a] href="#" onclick="new Dialog().showMessage('Dialog', 'imagepath."1.gif"'); return false;"> display. ...

How to use sms.send and sms.Cansend to send sms from Facebook application

I am developing an ASP application for Facebook. In that I want to send SMS for mobile users who has registered their phone numbers with Facebook. Is there anyone knows how to use sms.send and sms.Cansend methods in ASP or C#? I am able to give the permission to enter the user his/her phone number in my application. I want to send sms to...

How to make Facebook Connect to stop log in authomatically

After I logged in with facebook first time and then log out on my site, it tries to log me in using facebook connect every time I open page with connect button. Is there any way to disable this feature? Maybe I need to create a specific callback function but I can't find this in docs. ...

Via-link on facebook stream box updates

The wiki page on fb live-stream says this: On the Connect tab, set the Connect URL to your server so Facebook can verify the call is coming from you. This is also the page where users are directed if they click the "via " link from their streams. (http://forum.developers.facebook.com/viewtopic.php?id=42983) I've done this for my a...

Facebooker Connect and Safari 4

Hi, Seems to be a known problem, but I didn't find the solution. When your facebook app tries to perform some JS call via loading fb:iframe with JS code, Safari blocks this saying "Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame with URL from frame with URL . Domain, names and protocols must match". Is there a way to solve this? ...

fb:serverfbml not rendering in ie7

I'm writing a Facebook iframe/Facebook Connect application and one of the pages includes a multi-friend-selector. It renders perfectly in every browser I tried (FF/Mac, Safari/Mac, IE8/Win) but does not render at all in IE7/Win. I waited and waited (in case it was just being slow) and it never appeared. Here's my code. <fb:serverfbml s...

Pushing facebook status updates to application server?

I'm developing a Facebook application that displays the user's friends and their status. To do so I'm looking for a way for Facebook to push status updates to my app server. In other words, an asynchronous status update notification mechanism. At present the application continuously polls the user's stream using a FBL request, which can ...

facebook feed template: right alignment for text

I'm trying to make my text right aligned in my feed template, but it seems that FBML does not support a div tag in feed body. how can I make my text right aligned? ...

Looking for a good book to learn How to program aspnet over facebook

Hi all, I don't know if any such book exists. I am an aspnet developer and I am now thinking of developing facebook applications. I'd seen many tutorials on the web explaining how an aspnet developer can write his own app, though what I am looking for is a tutorial book, so I can have a clean and logical studying course. Does any of you...

Integration of Facebook Group Wall in iPhone app

Hi all, Is it possible to integrate a wall of a specific Facebook group into an iPhone application. Is it possible to do using Facebook connect? or any other libraries? The task is to display the wall of a group. Can we bypass sign up and display the activity on the wall on the tab? Would it be possible for a registered FB user to mak...

Trouble logging out of a Facebook connect site and destroying sessions

I can't seem to get a facebook connect app that I am building to log the user out (sorry no url as it's still in dev). Each time the user clicks a link with the class "logout" the following JS runs which seems to work and even shows the FB modal stating the user has been logged out. $(document).ready(function(){ $('.logout').click(f...