I have a PHP based website which has a post/comment system. Can I add a checkbox to my post function so that if it is checked the post will be published to Facebook as well as my own website at the same time?
I have looked through the docs on facebook and I saw a comment plugin, but it's not really what I am looking for.
I would appreciate a tutorial, links, code, or just general help.
If you're looking for a way to replicate the auto-posting functionality in the fb:comments plugin, the only way to accomplish that is asking the users to install an app. By using the sandboxed fb:comments social plugin, Facebook controls the user experience, so users can post to their wall without an install. If you use your own method though, you'll need to require an install (and publish_stream permissions).
I'd recommend using fb:comments if at all possible, since that creates less friction for your users and will be a more familiar experience for them. If you wish to do something with the comment as it's added, you can subscribe to the comment.create event.
May be you can use the Feed Dialog have a look: http://bit.ly/rQWC36
You can launch the dialog if the checkbox is checked, after submit the comments form.
Or may be you can use the OpenGraph API versión of the feed dialog, look for the section: "Graph API Equivalent" documentation doesn't sais nothing about permission on using that dialog this way. I hope it helps.
I am still unsure of what you are looking for but still facebook api is a good place to start off. A part from that, the checkboxes and automatically going to facebook that you have referred will be done according to your language/framework which you have not illustrated.
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I'm trying to add a Share button to my website's various pages but I've found so many options I don't know which one is the most correct.
Official method:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/share-button
I can't get this to work. If you'd like to check out a live example on my website pls comment :-) The share button appears, I click it, it opens but when I click 'share' again in the dialog, nothing happens. (the fb account is fine, I checked using other website's share buttons)
SO answer using share.php which I heard was no longer officialy supported:
facebook Sharer popup window
Finally the facebook share dialog (official):
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/share-dialog
This method lists the use of 'app ID' which I'm having trouble with. It says to use a public ID and it IS required (not according to several SO questions), and I can't find how to do that.
Hence, I ask: What is one method that will surely work to implement normal share button (topic+image+small description) on my website?
Thank you.
I'd really need to see more of your implementation, but I have some thoughts.
As Facebook always requires the use of their Javascript SDK for their recent tools, you could check out that the SDK is loaded correctly.
Another thought: The SO answer with sharer.php seems a decent starting point. If you don't need everything to happen in a window/overlay, you can just create a simple link and point it to
https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?s=100&p%5Btitle%5D=Google&p%5Burl%5D=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com
with p[title] as the page title and p[url] as the url of the page you want to share. This has been a reliable solution for me for years, as it doesn't rely on any Javascript and works in virtually all environments.
If you like you can always make the link open in a window via Javascript you can add yourself, so it's easy to debug.
I'm trying to SUGGEST, or CREATE an app, and I don't have any knowledge of facebook app creation... I've looked up on tutorials, but facebook's API might change or has changed by the date of those tutorials...
So I thought I'll ask on here, after searching for a facebook developer's support, I was redirected to here.
My question: What is the best way to create a basic app, as per my requirements (below)..?
My Suggestion/Requirements: I wrote this tutorial on superuser, which lets you display your current playing track as an updated div on your html based website. I'm trying to create a facebook app that posts these track info updates to the right side of the facebook home panel (above the chat column). Like Spotify! Or SoundCloud...
My Problem: I don't know where to start? I don't have much knowledge of scripting and according to me, it should be quite simple in PHP/MYSQL/Javascript/ ... but don't know how facebook would handle the html file from where the <div> data could be collected. I think jquery would solve that, but this can also be done via PHP/MYSQL.
It should be simple, so I'm also suggesting this as an idea for anyone willing to create this app on facebook? And if you create it, please do keep it open source project or a tutorial for it, so that if at any time you close the app, it can still be replicated. I cannot create it but am willing to, but don't know how to...
I'm asking this here because facebook doesn't appear to have a forum based posts for this apart from the developers group. I've joined the facebook developers group, but haven't yet been allowed to post anything, as the join request is pending.
That's mostly all. Thanks for any help.
Start with registering your application on Facebook .It will give you some token and keys.
Now you can follow any tutorial online to create application on fb.
I am a PHP developer who was asked by a client to update their Facebook business page with changing statistics. Not by posting the information as status updates at an interval, but to update the Facebook page description like AJAX would update a page view counter. Is this possible? Can you point me in the right direction of how to implement this?
You're going to need to authenticate your application (this is also good reading here) and ask for extended_permissions, specifically the manage_pages permission.
This allows your application to login as a page.
Then you can modify certain parts of the page attributes.
There is a nice class available on phpclasses.org to aid in logging in with facebook, though their own PHP SDK is really nice when you get used to it.
Good luck!
I'm using Disqus basically as the "wall" for users on my website. Note I'm not using wordpress or anything similar, a "custom" so to speak disqus implementation.
http://disqus.com
When a user registers I'd like to be able to subscribe them to the disqus thread associated with their own profile page so they'll get email notifications. I imagined it would be something along the lines of SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL($user_email,$thread_id). I was not able to find any such function in the disqus documentation, or through internet searching.
Help?
If you're still confused what I mean feel free to take a look at the user profile pages on my website:
http://www.orderofprestige.com
You might be able to use the Disqus Web API, optionally with their own PHP implementation, for this. If they have no public API for it, you are most probably out of luck (that is, if you don't use client-side black hat JavaScript like Clickjacking).
As far as I can tell you can't add the Developer package to a Pages account - as in I haven't got a Facebook profile.
It's for business purposes and I'd really like to know if you can use the Facebook API to update a Pages status.
Thanks :)
Yes its possible although not officially documented.
Pageids behave in many function calls very similar to profileids.
You dont need to add the developer app to a page - remember: you neither need your users to add it.
I am pretty sure that the Stream API wont work. But you can do the approach described at http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/04/public-profile-twitter/
If you are not into Development and simply want to update your page you can use your twitter account and add a hashtag to sync it to your facebook page with Selective Twitter.
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=115463795461
Update: as pointed out below http://ping.fm is also a good service offering this feature