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Facebook PHP API - sudden problem with users_isAppUser()

Hello, we have an iframe facebookapp which worked fine till yesterday. Although we didn't change anything our app suddenly stopped working. We could identify users_isAppUser() as a problem. The method returns that the user has not added the app though he definitely has installed the app and is logged in. We could delete the try/catch p...

Facebook API quit working. why?

I have an Facebook API that connects to Facebook, pulls the users name, and updates their status. Up until at least Monday afternoon, it was working properly, but as of Tuesday afternoon, it hasn't worked. I have tracked it down to the fql_query call in the api file, that is not returning the user info. When I do a login, I get the us...

Unable to use facebook connect application on IE8: xd_receiver popup does not close.

In both Opera and Firefox, my facebook connect application successfully loads xd_receiver and everything works. In IE8, it loads xd_receiver in the popup as expected, but the popup does not close and the data is not transmitted to my app. The url the popup is visiting is the correct xd_receiver page, as is hinted by the fact that every...

Possible to fetch Facebook application API secret?

I'm using FB.Connect.createApplication (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/?u=facebook.jslib.FB.Connect.createApplication) to create applications on the fly. The problem is that the method doesn't return the API secret (only the app ID and api key). This is a big problem. Does anyone know if it's possible to fetch this data provided you...

How to syn form action in Facebook iframe canvas?

When I submit a form using method "POST" and full canvas callback Url action inside Facebook iframe canvas, I cannot get the form elements in the request. Can anyone give me some help on this? page code: <form action="http://apps.facebook.com/myapp" method="post" target="_top"> <input type="hidden" name="myvar" value="v" /> <input typ...

Basic Facebooker plugin usage

Can anyone direct me to a resource for getting up and running with the Facebooker plugin? The tutorial linked at the docs barely covers getting an app running, not actually using the API, the docs themselves are basically empty, and I can't find any references to basic API methods around the web, and those that I do find seem already ou...

Underlying connection was closed when I try to get information as xml from Facebook using Asp.net..

hi all, I have developed a web application which helps to reterive persons name, picture, profile_url from facebook. To get the information from facebook i have added two dll named called "facebook.dll" and facebook.Linq.dll". I have added "application key" and "secret key also". After I developed , the application was able to get info...

Send Facebook Notifications

Hi Friends, I am working on "courses 2.0" application development team.This is one of the best application in facebook. I want to send facebook notification to all our application user at once. I have all user id's as a string format separated by commas. I am able to send the notifications to these users but some times some notifi...

Redirecting Facebook 'offline_access' permission page

I am trying to get users' permission for 'offline_access' in an iFrame Facebook application coded with the Facebook Java API. I understand that I need to obtain an 'indefinite session key' after the users approves my application. Currently, I can accomplish what I want, but in a very awkward way that is probably not correct. There must b...

how to write where condition in fql facebook using asp.net?

Hi all, I need to execute a fql using facebook dll in asp.net. The fql is ="select name, profile_url from user where name = 'suresh'". When I execute this i could not get the response . I am getting only empty string. string response = fbService.fql.query("select name, profile_url from user where name = 'suresh'"); but if i search by...

How can I remove posts from a Facebook Fan page?

I've really few experience with Facebook development, just made few things... I'd like to know how to programatically modify a fan page, the particular requirement that I've right now is to control posts from users, I'd like to be notified for a new post and also have the ability to delete posts. Could you guide me to accomplish this ...

How can I disable Tomcat caching completly?

I'm having trouble with a site im currently working on. We are trying to make facebook connect comments widget. The widget loads every time we make a new request that responds with a 200 OK status. But when it returns with a 304 Not Modified the widget wont load. It all points out to a caching issue. I tryed changin the context.xml <C...

fql.query method returns empty string in asp.net

Hi, I have developed a web application 3 months ago to show facebook users by searching username. To access facebook, I have downloaded facebook dll and got application key, and secret key from facebook. My web application was working fine and displaying records from facebook. yesterday onwards, my application is not working fine. I c...

facebook addfriend.php redirects to an error page.

I need to provide "Add Friend" link in my facebook connect application. If I open the following file directly or if I type URL directly in a browser then I am able to achieve the same. But when I open it in locahost (using apache server), it gets redirected to an error page on facebook with the message "You are sending friends requests...

Embedding RSS and Twitter onto Static FBML??

Hi guys, I've been asked to build a facebook fan page, that displays the latest RSS from a blog and the latest tweets from an user. Something just like this: http://www.facebook.com/ibmargentina?v=app_223277347226&amp;ref=ts I already know the basics for working with FBML, but I can't figure how can I display external data... Any tips...

Facebook canvas page in Java - optional app authorization?

I have canvas FBML app for facebook in Java. I am trying to get current user id using facebook java api in a controller, but without forcing every user to grand app access through facebook.com/login.php. The trouble is that I don't understand a facebook app workflow. In order to get userid I need to provide fb sessionid. In order to ge...

Facebook Application Development: Are there Tutorials, Screencasts, etc. that are Architecture Centric

Are there any good tutorials that outline proven Architecture patterns for Facebooks applications? Most of the resources I've found in their development documentation are hello world oriented. I'm looking for something (article, book, screencast, etc) that outlines common things that a Facebook application will do, and common, proven ,...

Can access AppEngine SDK sites via local ip-address when localhost works just fine and a MacOSX

Can access AppEngine SDK sites via local ip-address when localhost works just fine and a MacOSX using the GoogleAppEngineLauncher. I'm trying to setup facebook development site (using a dyndns.org hostname pointing at my firewall which redirects the call to my mac book). It seems like GoogleAppEngineLauncher defaults to localhost and b...

fbjs: get uid of current loggedinuser

i have to use fbjs for my current app. i was using the api.requireLogin function earlier but then i looked over at the docs and found the function has been deprecated and suggested to use FB.Connect.requireSession() instead. I wanted to know how do i get the uid of the current user? ...

Facebook API recently updated status messages

Is there any method in the Facebook API that will return the status messages of the most recently updated accounts (similar to the GetPublicTimeline method from Twitter's API)? To be a little more specific, I'm planning on using Python to do the data retrieval, and I was wondering if there was a way to get the Public Timeline using PyFac...