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Is it possible to put an iframe inside a Facebook page tab?

According to the Facebook developer roadmap, it will soon be possible to put iframes inside page tabs but it's not yet available. I came across this Store Locator on Coach page which uses an iframe to display a Google map inside a tab : http://www.facebook.com/Coach?v=app_168904438199&ref=ts Looking at the source code, I see the ma...

Facebook invite friends in a lightbox

We are trying to have the Facebook invite friends dialog open in a lightbox in our application. Here is the FBML that goes inside the lightbox: <fb:serverFbml width="760px"> <script type="text/fbml"> <fb:request-form method="POST" action="<%: Url.Action("InviteFacebookFriends", "Friends", null, "http...

Display .txt file in html (without php or javascript) (UPDATE)

Hi, I want to display the context of a .txt file in an html file. I know this would be very easy with PHP or javascript, but, to put you in context, I am building a content administrator for a Facebook page (Not app). Facebook FBML is static and doest allow php and VERY limited javascript. The first question would be if this is even...

How to use FBML outside canvas and iframe ?

I want to render the on my website. I have already registered my website for Application ID and Application Secret, and have successfully implemented the single-signon using the Facebook PHP SDK and javascript SDK. Since it has been written the javascript library must be intialized for xfbml and fbml to work, hence I have already done t...

facebook roadmap ????

at facebook road map you can see this link Old REST API methods will be deprecated at the end of 2010, so what about existing facebook apis that are using Rest api. Also it says, it won't allow any more fbml applications, does that mean fbml itself will be deprcated (I mean the fbml scripts itself), or they just force us to use Iframe...

What good and up to date Facebook API tutorials are available?

I invested quite some time searching for good and up to date tutorials on using the Facebook API. I can't seem to find anything. Even the Facebook developer documentation doesn't contain good examples. What good tutorials are available? I'm particularly interested in creating feed posts via the Facebook API. ...

Unable to run javascript in Facebook app

I'm trying to convert my once fully functional app from using the ancient feed templates to the new publisher stuff. However, when trying to init the new API I got the javascript error a28251737459_FB is not defined. Unable to debug or pinpoint the location of the error, I tried taking out everything on the app's main page except for <sc...

FBML Comments box

I have created a FBML page and added a comments box. People have started making comments, however some i need to delete. How can i do this? Last week I changed candelete parameter to true, which gave me a delete button for each comment. Strangely this week, it doesn't work? Its like the function of the candelte parameter has changed? ...

How to obtain this facebook user id for the like button?

Referring to this document, I must implement this strange tag to my website in order to add a like-button for it. <meta property="fb:admins" content="USER_ID"/> USER_ID is supposed to be replaced by my actual user id at facebook. How do I safely obtain the correct user id? ...

Display photos hosted on facebook in tab app

Hi all, I'm pulling photos from albums on a facebook business page through the api and displaying them on a tabbed app on the same page - everything works as expected, I get urls to the photos that look like this: http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs689.snc4/ 62916_492131547984_50574932984_6933281_3552549_a.jpg Now if I tr...

From validation problem on Facebook tab

I am using static FBML but I am having trouble debugging a form validation problem. I get the dialogue which to me seems like it should return false, but the form submits anyway. I am using Firebug and I see a brief message in Red that I have no chance to read. I appreciate the help :-) var txt ='Enter Zipcode'; //... function setErr...

Cant add FBML App to Fan Page Tab

Last week we were able to install an FBML app to a Fan Page Tab. Now the Tab will not show up. See screenshot here: http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/attachment.cgi?id=3075 FBML App: http://apps.facebook.com/alice-storefront/ Fan Page Test: http://www.facebook.com/pages/manage/#!/pages/Alice-Sandbox/150177181689663 The FBML app is i...

Comments on facebook fan page: "Post comment to my Facebook profile" doesn't work

Hi there, I'd like to add a comment box on my facebook fan page. So I added on my StaticFBML page: <fb:comments xid="159887744022306"> <fb:title>Leave a comment</fb:title> </fb:comments> Where "159887744022306" is my page ID. Now it actually posts comments on the page but: The feature "Post comment to my Facebook profile" doesn't w...

Does Cufon work in FBML static pages?

Just as the title says, does Cufon work in FBML static pages? If not, what works to replace the fonts? ...

Facebook like button title on page

Hello I have a like button set up on my app. The link to one of the pages in the app is http://apps.facebook.com/heyulike/post3.php?id=4 If you click on the like button and then check your profile, you will see something like : Name likes Cool Pos on heyulike Everything is fine about this except in my php code, after Cool Po...

Trouble opening a new window from an FBML facebook tab

Hey all, working on a client who needs a coupon to open in a new window when clicked, I think this code is just fine (the Ajax is working and returning a URL), but, I get nothing when I click: <a href="#" onclick="do_ajax(); return false;"> <img src="http://www.blah.com/fb/getcouponimage.jpg" alt="" width="169" height="47" border="0"> <...

Use FBML to embed a custom video player / video on facebook walls?

I'm trying to get a video (flv) or an swf video player to work on Facebook walls, however no matter what I do - facebook posts the raw fbml and ignores the code. What am I doing wrong? <fb:swf swfsrc='http://www.domain.com/flv_player/Main.swf' imgsrc='http://www.domain.com/large1.jpg' allowscriptaccess=”all” flashvar...

Can Facebook's fb:comments notify me when a new comment is posted?

I'm using fb:comments as described here. Comments work fine but I can't find a way to be notified when a new comment is added. Is there a way to easily find new comments (without visiting my 3000 articles each time)? I know FB did some changes to the way notifications work but I hope they left a way to do this. ...

Sending gift to facebook friend from external website

I tried to use XFBML: <fb:serverfbml style="width: 755px;"> <script type="text/fbml"> <fb:fbml> <fb:request-form action="http://example.com/user/handleFacebookGiftSend" method="POST" invite="false" type="gifts" <fb:multi-friend-selector .................... on a webpage on my website to send virtual gift (consisting of ...

FBJS setStyle( {backgroundImage}) not working?

Hi, i am trying to add some images to my facebook tab-app via FBJS. The Problem: I can't see the images and I don't know why. The FBJS code url = "http://www.domain.de/image.gif"; myImg = document.createElement('img'); myImg.setStyle( {backgroundImage: 'url('+url+')' }); document.getElementById('wrapper').appendChild(myImg); The r...