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 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…
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…
Starting June 30, 2010, your Facebook application will only be able to read the publically available information of a user’s profile by default, the way data read permissions are granted in the platform. While the changes are broad in scope, none of them impact backwards compatibility: all of your existing code will continue to work.…
Facebook has recently introduced Graph API and simplified many things. The new Graph API attempts to drastically simplify the way developers read and write data to Facebook.The Graph API uses OAuth 2.0 for authorization. OAuth 2.0 is a simpler version of OAuth that developers used earlier for authorization as $facebook->require_login(). (by the way, old token…