Facebook has provided ‘Send Button’ social widget to be placed on websites. It is a great social plugin that allows users of your website to send message to their Facebook friends. But most of the time, this widget does not work correctly. Problem occurs when any div with the overflow css property is exists above…
If you have annoying scrollbars on your Facebook iFrame App page, here’s how to remove them. First of all, make sure that you have setup your app canvas height correctly here https://developers.facebook.com/apps. You can select fixed or fluid width though. see following screenshot. Now add following code after the body tag in your page. Don;t…
Facebook Graph API allows you to do amazing things with lot much code and hassle. For a Facebook app I was developing recently, I needed the list of mutual friends of two app users, to rank those higher who had higher mutual friends count, I wrote following function and worked like a charm. Just create…
While developing a Facebook Dating app recently, I needed to return records for a date range between minimum and maximum age from users table but the data was in the date format (birthday). Following select command will calculate the age from the `birthday` column value for you for each record: SELECT EXTRACT(YEAR FROM (FROM_DAYS(DATEDIFF(NOW(),`birthday`))))+0 AS…
While developing an iFrame Canvas Facebook app recently, I found out that FB iFrame app’s session did not work quite expectantly in IE8. Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera all worked as expected but IE8 block access to cookies. After spending some minutes Googling, I found out that IE8 restricts the access to cookies, known as 3rd…
These days, every business wants more and more ‘Likes’ for their Facebook pages if their Facebook application supports its own custom tab. And this is kinda becoming the basic requirement for every such Facebook app these days so here’s how you can achieve that using Graph API PHP SDK. This helps us choosing the content…
All new Facebook applications are now iFrame apps. But when you check your app using iFrame inside Facebook, horizontal and vertical scroll bars may appear in the iFrame if the content exceeds height and width of the canvas. Luckily, Facebook provides a ready to use method to dynamically re-sizing of iFrame inside it. Step 1…
Facebook Graph API $me object does not provide user’s network info. To access FB user’s networks/affiliations information, you need to use FQL like this: $fql = ‘SELECT affiliations, name FROM user WHERE uid = ‘.$me[‘id’]; //or use this query for standard_user_info table //$fql = ‘SELECT affiliations, name FROM standard_user_info WHERE uid = ‘.$me[‘id’]; $param =…
With Facebook user base reaching 1 Billion connected people mark and integration of more than 7 million websites, Facebook is the number one social networking platform. While every developer wants to be on this bandwagon to create applications and games, there are numerous tutorial websites sharing the tips and tricks on Facebook evolving API. For…
If you are looking to set up a store on your Facebook Fan page quickly and most importantly freely, Payvment is the way to go. Payvment store provides tools for Social Sharing, Analytics, Product Management, Orders and Payment and of course front end Store set up in your Facebook Fan page. There are premium versions…
As I write this post on 12 Oct, The FBML apps I manage are all working fine even without SSL certificate. Facebook’s Secure Page URL requirement by Oct 1, 2011 mentioned on this Facebook Platform road map page had created some anxious moments for many developers earlier. On the the above road map for developers…
While working on legacy Facebook applications recently migrating them to the latest Graph API, I fixed the data types of Facebook ID columns in several apps. Some had used the varchar data type and others had simple ‘Text’ type. Since Facebook assigns the IDs to users, and we are just storing them in our apps,…
Facebook has added the app’s permissions to the user object, which can easily be accessed using Facebook Graph API and any specific permission is missing, you can request for it by redirecting user to the Facebook: $app_id =’App ID here’; $app_secret =’App Secret here’; $app_url =’App URL here’; // Create our Application instance. $facebook =…
To get the Facebook Third Party ID for your app Facebook user, try the following code using Graph API: $fbid = $facebook->api(‘/me?fields=third_party_id&access_token=’.$access_token); echo “THIRD PARTY ID: “.$fbid[‘third_party_id’]; What is Third Party ID? Facebook expressly prohibit Platform developers from passing any data from Facebook to data brokers. But sometimes there are practical reasons that developers will…
If you are getting “App temporarily unavailable” FBJS errors like following on your Facebook apps pages: App temporarily unavailable Runtime errors: URLExceptionInvalid scheme for url (javascript:) URLExceptionInvalid scheme for url (javascript:void(null)) Solution Search in your html code any reference to javascript in a href=”javascript:” tags. Just remove them and use onClick event instead. Hope that…