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Prompting the user for permission - facebook developer toolkit

Hello all, I am building a small facebook application in c#. I want to prompt the user for permission to post short story feeds to his profile. When I try using the facebook developer toolkit with the following command (in order to see if the permission is already in place): API.permissions.checkAvailableApiAccess(API.ApplicationKey) ...

Facebook Connect help.

According to the Facebook API documentation, most of the work is handled through javascript. That means that all the processing is done, and then the front end checks if the user is connected to Facebook/authorized. right? My question is: Suppose a user goes to my site for the first time ever. He clicks on "facebook connect". The ja...

Open id and facebook implementation in php?

I am using Open ID on my website using Dope Openid library but I would like to add facebook as an open id provider to the list since facebook also supports OpenID...Can anyone help me out with an explanation or link me to a tutorial (staga.net is using it flawlessly on their site) *if someone can also explain to me how Staga is using but...

Security question: Is this a valid way to hack into Facebook applications? (and possibly Facebook)?

Your friend connects to Facebook and checks "remember me". Facebook creates a cookie on the browser. Your friends goes to the bathroom. You steal your friend's cookies from his browser and its data. You go home and make these cookies with that data. Assuming Facebook does not associate cookies + IP, you can gain access to the Facebook...

A text based Facebook game in ASP.NET MVC

Hi All, We have got a project in its very early stage where we need to build a text based game for Facebook. The platforms and technologies have not yet been finalized but here is what we think we will be doing. Just wanted to ask for your opinion if that is the best way to go. We are thinking to build the game in ASP.NET MVC using Fac...

How to post 1 line story to user's wall.

I've been looking but can't seem to find an answer for this. What I want to do is this: on mywebsite.com a user clicks a button this button sends a message to facebook ("Soandso has clicked the button") I want facebook to then post a 1 line story to that user's wall "* So and so clicked a button!" Now, I've tried using stream.publish...

Facebook Connect/App Implementation Overview

I am just starting to design a Facebook 'app' that I would like to see work similar to the Netflix Facebook app. I have looked high and low on the Facebook developer site for details how how such an app might be implemented, but most of the documentation seems geared twords websites where a user is already logged into Facebook. Are ther...

Easiest way to share on facebook, twitter and via email?

On a news-site, the client wants me to implement a way to share a story (just a link, really) via Email, facebook and twitter. I could write some code for each sharing-method, but it seems very likely, that some sort of service or library would exist, that shares the current url to different services. Maybe even with some tracking on wh...

How to know whether the facebook application has been connected

I am trying to implement a facebook application, but i am trying to use the prompt-permission tag but the link not appear and only show the text. The text change to link when I clicked the facebook's CONNECT button. So when a user login through the facebook (not from Connect button), the link won't appear... Is it because the user does...

Is it possible to do a Facebook status update programatically in .NET?

Hi folks, I'm using Twitter's OAuth API to updates a user's twitter account (twitter status update) provided they give permission / authorise my site with their twitter account. works great. Can the same be done with Facebook? I was told Facebook connect does this, but all I can find are pages talking about how to make Facebook embedd...

facebook connect problem

how can i get firstname and last name of facebook user while using f-connect? i can login using api. but i couldnt get firstname and lastname of logged in user. ...

facebook api query string problem

Hi, I develop a facebook api with asp.net , I have to send query string but this querystring may include special characters like ( ı, ç ö, ş, ğ ). When I send query string with special characters, facebook returns me an error. the error is : The URL http://apps.facebook.com/sportsfanarena/Results.aspx?s=13&co=3&ci=Bal%c4%b1kes...

Facebook Fan Box on Fan Page

Is there any way to add a fan box widget to a application tab on a facebook fan page? ...

Recommended architecture for a .NET Facebook Game

What is a good architecture for implementing a real-time, multi-player Silverlight-based game that is intended to integrate and run from Facebook? The idea is to build a Silverlight-based game that uses social network information from Facebook as part of its play environment. Specifically, Where should the game rules be implemented,...

Prompt-Permission on facebook?

I am having trouble of understanding how the fb:prompt-permission work. I can have a link appear when the user click the fb:login-button either the user already logged in from facebook to our application or through our website. On the other hand, without clicking the login-button, the link or the permission dialog doesn't render if the u...

referencing my facebook application with a querystring

Hi all, I've created a small facebook application that posts a link to the user's profile. I want the link to reference my application with a certain querystring for me to know what data to present him. Is it possible? how can it be done? Thanks! ...

Facebook API: How do I get the 'Allow Access?' page to display?

I want users to add my Facebook Canvas application to their profile. I can create my own page with a 'connect' button to do this, but how do I do this within the canvas page? What do I mean? Go to any typical application, usually the first screen you see is an 'Allow Access?' screen with a button for 'Allow' or cancel (link). How do I...

generate session key for facebook connect

i m developing a blackberry app in which i need to send a mssg to the wall of all my facebook friends, for this i need to have a session key. i have api key, secret key and obviously userid and password. how do i get the session key. i want to know about the api to do this.Any one please help me. thanks in advance. ...

Facebook-IFrame

I am developing a facebook application using IFrame. how to add share option in my application. ...

Facebook Share Link not posting the right URL

I am using code found in http://www.facebook.com/share_partners.php/ It says to replace with the URL I want to share. The page where the share icon is placed is NOT the URL I want to share. The URL I want to share I enter as However, first it worked, but now it is pulling the meta value AND the URL from the actual page! My concern...