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redirect error and recursive login screen/auth screen problems with facebooker iframe

i am using the facebooker gem from http://github.com/mmangino/facebooker for developing a rails 2 facebook application (iframe). i am wondering if this is a bug from facebooker: when i am using ensure_application_is_installed_by_facebook_user in the application controller, the iframe gets rendered in an infinite loop. i found out tha...

PHP open source script for a specific website

Hi, Does anyone of you ever heard about a PHP open source solution that would have these features: Users login/registration (ideally connect via Facebook) Upload photos: users can upload photos and exchange them with administrators. No photo will be shown publicly (only to users and admin) Rich backend administration with different rol...

¿Facebook application published on a Facebook fan page... not facebook profile?

Hello. The situation is this one. I have a Facebook profile of my own, and asociated to this Facebook profile I have a Facebook fan page,,, and I developed a Facebook application that now days is published on Facebook. What I want is to asociate this Facebook App not to my profile but to my fan page... I mean,,, I know that so I can c...

Sending application invites programmatically

In my application I want users to be able to challenge other users, and since facebook has take away my ability to issue notifications, I would like to be able to send either invites or emails. If the user already is playing the game, I'll send them an email. If they are not, I want to send them an invite from the challenging player. Ho...

Facebook Connect / Graph - problems in Internet Explorer with fb:login dialog (not closing)

Hi there, I am trying to get the facebook connect stuff working on my localhost. In FireFox and Chrome it works perfectly. In Internet Explorer: an error appears in the connect dialog. This is: Invalid Argument The Facebook Connect cross-domain receiver URL (http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect/xd_proxy.php#?=&cb=f1e33405f2824e9...

Android/Java -- Post simple text to Facebook wall?

Hello all, I'm trying to integrate posting to one's wall from within my app. I already have an area where the user can save his/her username and password (encrypted). I would like my program to recall the saved username and password, pass that to Facebook for authentication, and then allow the app to post simple text (maybe a link too) ...

Where can I find statistics about Facebook applications?

I'm trying to find a source for Facebook Application statistics. I'm most interested in getting a comprehensive list of the applications in the system, and how many monthly active users each app has. I know this information is available on each application's page, but aside from crawling Facebook, is this information available somewher...

How to make a Facebook "Like" button that is just a link, not an iFrame?

I'd like to put a "Like" button into an email message that it going out to our e-newsletter subscribers. The usual way of embedding a Like button, which uses, an iframe technique, is not going to work. What I'd like to do is to have a static hyperlink, where clicking on the button image will just go to a particular URL that is our corre...

facebook javascript sdk fb_xd_fragment??

Hi guys, I am using the facebook javascript sdk to embed a like button in my page. What is fb_xd_fragment??? I see it appends to the end of my url like http://www.mysite.com/controller/?fb_xd_fragment, and this is causing some nasty recursive reload of the page. Cheers James ...

How to learn to make a social game in facebook like happy aquarium, farmville.

I want to learn how to make a social game in facebook. How to go about it. I think you would need a team of devs. What languages are used to make social games like farmville, happy aquarium, etc. Are any tuts available or any book? ...

Facebook Application Development

First of all I am using ASP.NET with C# for Facebook Application Developement My Qestion is ::: How to use Notification.SendRequest.. or i want to send Request that is A gift from my application to friend then what is the process.. and how to do it. ...

Why do Facebook followers not shown in Safari & IE8?

Hello Everybody We integrated facebook in our web application [Java GWT]. Facebook page followers shown in Mozila firefox 3.07 and Google :) but not shown in Safari and IE8 :( we used following script in our Java coding to show facebook page followers[Like]: <script type='text/javascript' src='http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/j...

Facebook Graph API - likes returns me an empty set...

When I try to get all my "likes" (formerly fan pages) on Facebook Graph API, sometimes it returns me an empty set: { "data": [ ] } I tried with https://graph.facebook.com/me/likes?access_token=MY_ACCESS_TOKEN and with graph.facebook.com/vinch/likes?access_token=MY_ACCESS_TOKEN but the result is exactly the same (empty). Any id...

is OAuth required in Facebook Graph API ?

Hello i have a problem .. i want to get all the feeds from a facebook page using fb graph API without OAuth but i have a problem https://graph.facebook.com/[page ID]/feed i get the following response { "error": { "type": "OAuthAccessTokenException", "message": "An access token is required to request this resource." ...

Unable to publish on Facebook wall offline using FB.Connect.streamPublish

Hi, I was trying for last two days to post into facebook user's wall offline using FB.Connect.streamPublish but it fails. The user has granted both publish_stream and offline_access permission. When I try to publish content it asks for login again [with the message saying 'You must log in to share content from other websites with your ...

Facebook's new Javascript SDK stream.publish broken?

Using FB.ui({ method: 'stream.publish' ...}) It fails to accept my attachment media complaining it should be an array (while it is). The old API (FB.Connect.streamPublish) accepted the format just fine, and all the other options seem to be valid. I find the Facebook documentation to be a mess, somebody got this working with the new vers...

Facebook like button showing in Firefox but not showing in IE

Hello all, I have a Facebook like button on my page using the XBFML tag. I think the code is working, because it works in Firefox without a problem. But in IE 8 (running in IE 7 compliant mode), the button does not show at all. If I switch it all to the iFrame version of the like button it all works. But when I go with the XBFML ta...

FB permissions, fb tags vs. javascript

Is my understanding correct, that in FaceBook development I can request application permissions (for user data, posting to his wall etc.) in 2 ways by using some static permission-requesting fb-tags in html code or by using facebook JavaScript libraries/objects for dealing with permissions? If so, are these ways serving the same purp...

Application tab using using graph api.

Hello. I have an flash application (iframe) that communicates with Facebook trough the new graph api trough HTTP Request. I been trying to figured out how do i put an fb:add-profile-tab in my application canvas page whit no success. I thing that this is easy to do if you have developed the page in fbml but for iframe application i do...

Facebook like on demand meta content scraper

you guys ever saw that FB scrapes the link you post on facebook (status, message etc.) live right after you paste it in the link field and displays various metadata, a thumb of the image, various images from the a page link or a video thumb from a video related link (like youtube). any ideas how one would copy this function? i'm thinkin...