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Problem with jQuery load() and Facebook XFBML

Hi, The situation I open a layer (jQueryUI) like this. $("#dialog").load('userinfo.html #layer').dialog('open'); userinfo.html displays the photo and the name of a facebook user. <html xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml"&gt; <...some code...> <div id="layer"> <script type="text/javascript"> $(functi...

Looking for FB.XFBML.parse callback function?

Hi, is there a callback function (e.g. onComplete) for this? I would like to display a loader. FB.XFBML.parse() ...

Howto use xfbml on facebook pages?

I've created a facebook page and added an fbml box to it. But fbml seems to be very limited, in many cases, I would like to use xfbml instead (or even better: both together). Is it possible to use xfbml in Facebook pages? ...

Getting a Visitor's Facebook Info Without "App Permission" -- How Does Yelp Do It?

Okay. I've spent hours poring over the scattered FB documentation concerning xFBML, Open Graph, etc. -- most of it deprecated it seems. Anyways, I'm trying to get a visitor's Facebook userid (or name or pic or anything) when they visit my site (assuming they are logged into FB already) without them having to "connect" and give my websit...

Showing FBML using new Facebook js lib

I'm using the new facebook js lib for a facebook connect site. (The one that uses FB.getLoginStatus instead of FB.Connect.get_status ) And suddenly all of my fbml has dissapeared... The documentation says nothing of the new js lib, only the old one. my html tag has the attributes ' xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"xmlns:fb="http:...

change color schema of facebook fb:login-button

I am using facebook social plugin fb:login (new version) and here is my code. <fb:login-button show-faces="true" perms="email,user_birthday,status_update,publish_stream"></fb:login-button> I have a dark back ground in my page, so when user is logged on I can’t see user name as text is dark. So how do i set text color to be white? Tha...

Problem with Facebook XFBML and IE8 asynchronous loading

I'm trying to implement an XFBML comment box on a page. It works in FF and Chrome, but only sporadically in IE8. I get an 'FB' is undefined error when the page hits the FB.XFBML.parse('fb-stuff'); Do I need to check if the FB Connect script has finished loading before I try to parse the XFBML? <script type="text/javascript"> window....

On the Facebook roadmap? xfbml-share via private message

this roadmap wiki describes the ability to share via private message. is that still on the roadmap? http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Roadmap_Share i understand that the user can select "send as a message instead". but user's easily overlook this option. is there a parameter to force as private message? Tim ...

Facebook Like Button using xfbml in Blogger - Cannot make individual like buttons for each post

I'm trying to put the Facebook Like button using xfbml in my Blogger blog. I want it to display a different button for each post, not the same for all the blog. I've followed the guidelines in this link, among others: http://hitech-tips.blogspot.com/2010/05/facebook-like-button-xfbml-tutorial.html What's happening is that the like butt...

Facebook application with video uploading capabilities

I need to upload video files through Facebook application and later visualize all uploaded videos so that people can vote for a video they like. I searched and read some articles, but I still have questions that are not completely clear for me: Is it better to use iframe or FBML If I use iframe is it possible to use input type="file" a...

facebook like: liking a page that redirects via 301 or 302 throws error "page could not be reached"

Hi Stackies, since a couple of days the Like-Button on our site is not working anymore. When I press the like button it shows "error: The page at * could not be reached.". When I remove the redirect it works, but I don't want to remove it because doing so the URL to like will be changed and I loose all "likes" that were connected with t...

Add iframe to facebook fan page without onClick method

Is there a way to add an iframe to a facebook page without having to do the onClick functionality? Right now I am using this code and it works fine except you have to click the link to make it show the iframe? <!-- Start iframe CODE --> Like me to show the iFrame link! <fb:visible-to-connection> <a onClick=...

Facebook Multi Friend Selector Doesn't Render (iFrame application)

I have an iframe Facebook application (using Facebook's new JavaScript API) that needs to allow the user to invite their friends to the app after entering a contest. I have the following markup in a div on the page (application name and Canvas Url redacted): <fb:serverFbml> <fb:request-form method="POST" invite="tru...

Facebook Login/Like Fail on IE8

I've recently implemented Facebook Login button and a Facebook "Like" button using XFBML. You can see the site on http://colnect.com Everything works well with FireFox, Chrome, Opera & Safari. However, IE doesn't show neither "login" or "like" buttons and no error message is available as well. Any ideas? ...

FBML fb:tabs problems

I got a problem while developing my first facebook api, I am using fb:tabs in my api. But I got some problems. <div> <fb:serverfbml style="width: 650px;"> <script type="text/fbml"> <fb:fbml> <fb:tabs> <fb:tab-item href="http://apps.facebook.com/myapi/invite...

Facebook API get user local time without FBML

Hello, I'm writing a Facebook Iframe canvas application using the Facebook Toolkit. There is a certain action where I need to store the date and time for the action, and in the future I want to render it for the user as a date and time like (10:05 AM 20 September 2010). The problem here is that each facebook user has his own local date...

og:image won't show up in my Facebook feed, when I like stuff at my site

Ok, I just launched a site: http://www.haavekuva.fi/ yesterday and on that site I've implemented Facebook's social plugin "fb:like", so it's possible to like a photo. Everything else works fine ("Like" gets published to my feed with correct title, link, etc.), but for some reason the og:image does not show up? When I hover over the the"...

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. ...

what is the validity of the facebook javascript sdk access token that is stored in the cookie

If I use the facebook javascript and xfbml to get a user to login to my app and grant me offline permissions. Can I then at the server read the cookie set by facebook, get the access token store it in a db and use it over time or is this access token valid only during the active session "even though I've requested and obtained us...

how can i get the functionality of fb:chat-invite using facebooks javascript sdk or xfbml

From this forum entry it appears that fb:chat-invite is not a valid xfbml tag, so to use it one needs to use serverfbml. However testing out <fb:serverfbml> <script type="text/fbml"> <fb:date t="1216170865" format="long_numeric" /> hello again </script> </fb:serverfbml> results in <fb:serverfbml> requires the "fbml" attribute...