I've been trying to find an answer to this but having trouble so here goes.
I have made some REST APIs.
My platform allows users to sync their Mailchimp subscribers to their account. I'm trying to let this run in the background (hence the decision to create APIs to talk to Mailchimp and suck in their user data).
At present when they log in and hit the first page, I run an ajax call to a file on our server, eg mailchimp.php
This file then calls our own API (on a different subdomain), which then does all the talking with Mailchimp and updates the users data in the database accordingly.
Everything works fine, except when the user moves to a new page.
How can I get the REST API on our sub domain to keep running until it finishes, without the user needing to wait?
One thing to note is if they leave the original page open and goto a new page in a new tab, it keeps running fine.
So I feel like it has something to do with the ajax call being terminated when they change pages? But I didn't think that would stop the REST API from finishing
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First time posting, long time reading.
I want to perform a silent authentication against Azure AD but I can't seem to get it to work.
Please find image below which outlines steps and overall solution approach.
This is the current approach I have set up and it is working quite well:
User logs in and is authenticated against a SaaS solution via Azure AD.
On the front page within the SaaS solution, user clicks on a widget which opens up a modal window.
Ajax call (POST) (bootstrap-table) is made which calls a php-script from another domain.
PHP script receives ajax request (CORS settings are ok). Here is where I would like the script to perform a silent user authentication against Azure AD and return user's email. It should not in any way display any login-screens or account selection screens. If the authentication fails it should just exit... perhaps with a error message.
Once authenticated, php-script performs API call(s)
On successfull call, JSON data is returned
And JSON returned from PHP-script is displayed on front page (bootstrap-table).
I've been trying with various examples/libraries (thephpleague/oauth2-client, magium/active-directory, ...) and I'm able to authenticate fine via Azure AD App but there is always a login-screen present or select account screen is displayed.
The reason for this approach is that I believe CORS are not secure or perhaps should not be used as a security measure. And also, because some browser does not seem to return Origin I am experiencing some issues...
Now, I'm more of a hobby-developer and perhaps this is in no way possible to achieve but I would like to believe it is and would appreciate any tips/hints on how to perform this silent activity/authentication.
Thank you!
I'm relatively certain after reading the facebook Open Graph documentation that I can't have a web site 'subscripe' to a public page, unless that page installs my app. Let me know if that is wrong.
What I am trying to make is a photo gallery, pretty simple, but it grabs photos from a public 'page' such as a college or university.
I would like it to update itself anytime there is a change. I was hoping I could do it through the API, possibly using API updates/subscription
Facebook App Subscriptions -
but I don't think that will work. I'm using PHP, are there other ways to listen and see if there has been a change? Other than just firing off a function every now and then, using CRON or some other such server tool. I would think that facebook would probably also not like that behavior, though I'm not sure.
As of right now, I am able to grab JSON from a public page's photo gallery using the API and the photo gallery works just fine, I'm mostly just wondering what the optimal of having it update itself automatically is.
You are correct in assuming that real-time updates for pages require admin access to the page to work. You need a page access token to be able to subscribe to updates for a specific page, and such a page access token you can only get from users that have admin privileges for that page. (The page does not need to install your app as a tab any more, they changed the subscription process in that regard; but the page access token is still necessary. Basically you can say, you can not subscribe to updates for just any arbitrary page, it has to be “your” page.)
Apart from that, all you can do is check for new content by requesting the current data in a sensible interval.
you need to get page access token, which is granted when the user is one of the Page Admin, check the documentation on Facebook
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/page
look for this line
"access_token": "The access token you can use to act as the Page. Only visible to Page Admins"
I'm building a product that involves clients adding their FB app data into my product's dashboard.
In this case each client would have to go to developers.facebook.com/apps and create an app first.
I would want to have a button which says "Create App" in my website that when clicked, would create the app instantly for the client.
So is it possible to create a FB App from my website (with script, not manually) ??
Thanks in advance,
Altin.
It was possible couple of years ago, and now it's been removed.
First of all, I’d think about the question, “does every client really need their own app?”
Maybe it’d also be possible to have all of the stuff you’re planning to do (no details on that) under one app, and have it decide on what data to show based on the fact which client’s Facebook page it gets added to (if it’ll run as page tab app), or by some additional parameter passed to it when calling it. You could f.e. example automatically redirect to a sub-folder on your webspace based on this criteria, that displays individual pages for that client.
If that’s not an option, then yes, your clients will have to set up the basic app themselves (and therefor they’ll need a verified account) – and afterwards tell app id and secret to you. Many of the “advanced” app settings can then be set by you via script – look at what properties are marked as “(Editable via API)” here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/application/
(Although some of the basic settings, like category, description, logo etc. will still have to be set by your client themselves. But other, more “technical” stuff, that the client maybe doesn’t know about and doesn’t even want to be bothered with, like canvas/page tab URLs etc. can be set by you. I’d say that’s as good a compromise as you can get for such a scenario.)
Please read the question carefully before you answer as it is a bit confusing.
I recently saw that Pagemodo gives the option to have multiple tabs on a single page as many times as you want which they call as "UNLIMITED TABS" in their plan options. So this means that if we want multiple welcome tabs on a page that can be done. Technically you can create only one page tab with one application. To have multiple tabs you will need multiple apps.
Now the question is how is it possible?
Even if i have multiple apps, while showing the page tab i can fetch the data about the tab from a db using "page id" as this is the only thing i have in the signed request. How do they get to know which page it is (ok we can get it from signed request) and which app it is out of those multiple apps that were created so that they render data accordingly?
Be careful your not falling for marketing speak.
Pagemodo likely manages a defined number of apps (which may be a very large number) and is allowing you to install them onto any page you manage giving you in essence unlimited uses.
The backend is all managed via end points for each of the apps and the signed request.
I found how it may be possible.
This is a nice place to get an idea of the problem i came up with:
http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=90792
After thinking about it i came up with the following solution that though you do not have a way to get the application id till you are not authenticated using signed request or any other data provided by facebook. But you can still get it via the page tab url.
So if i have an app with tab url as: http://www.example.com/tab.php, we can pass the app id via http://www.example.com/tab.php?id=APPID
Solves the purpose pretty well.
Hi i am trying to use Realtime updates in facebook application,
My application basically backs up the user's photos, messages and friendlist, i want when a user adds a new friend data on server should also be updated, when a user adds a new album the most recent album should be downloaded automatically to my server
I got this code from github-php , but dont know what next?
Please help if anyone has done with real time updates
you need to query the code after certain interval which you can use AJAX to update the page without refresh.
There is no automatic updates without query the information every time.
You have to subscribe using one module and you specify a callback url during the subscription... you only subscribe once and you get updates for everyone who has authorized your app. The updates come to you via the callback url and its very crappy info that basically tells you that you have to go back and query fb to get the full details.