I hope someone can answer my question here, it would be really appreciated.
I'm working on a project where Facebook users should be able to login with their Facebookaccount (username or e-mail and password) and then be able to pick their businesspage in order to see their statistics (things as likes, maybe other statistics if possible).
My question is, does every single user that would like to use this service have to get an Facebook App ID, Secret etc. or does only the service needs his own App ID/Secret etc?
Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Robin
even after letting user logged in, you need app id to use Facebook Graph api for page insights, and for that, you need to manually create app id in Facebook developer section
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I may be messing up with some ethics of asking here, and I apologize for that but I have a project in mind and to target new users I have an approach. Please read below, and allow my amateurity some leeway.
Suppose user1 gets on my site and enters the facebook profile URL of user2. Now user2, who has never visited my site, doesnt know of it, doesnt have an accoutn on it or anything, gets a notificatoin on his facebook that user1 has entered his profile url or has involved user2 in osme activity.
Does the faceabook API allows this? I've a friend who has used facebook GRAPH but he's unsure about this. Can any of you please direct me?
Secondly, if that requires me to create** a facebook app of the website(the app will grab the notification first and then forward it to target's facebook notifications), do facebook apps/developer cert. cost something?
I need to learn how to implement login into a website but I've heard that I shouldn't make a custom script unless I really know what I'm doing.
A better alternative I've hard is to just use Facebook login. I've looked over the docs but I'm still confused on something. I want to store additional information about the user (not just their facebook profile information) and I need to use that information to generate unique pages when they're logged in.
I am also wondering if the additional information I save about them will be just as secure as their facebook information or if it will be more vunerable.
If someone could guide me in the right direction with direct answers or useful articles I would very much appreciate it.
Read through the docs for login with Facebook and try out the sample code provided. That will give you a clear idea how to integrate Facebook login in your website.
In order to integrate login with Facebook you will first require an app id which is quite simple to create. Once you have the FB app id, you can integrate the login bit. Once the user successfully logs in, you should get back an app-scoped user id and as suggested by Lix use that as the primary key. Also, after user logs in, you can may be present a form where you collect additional data and save that against the user id in the database.
Regarding the security of the information, it really depends how and where you store it.
I was wondering if its possible to get one's facebook profile (to be exact,'profile url') through their API?
I need an api to get fb profile link using a matching email address. I dont want to login to facebook though.I was trying to search for this but it seems you need to log in to facebook to get that.
Any idea or is it feasible?
You need ID of the concerned user which can't be achieved without using the Facebook Login, since Facebook login is the starting point to get the current user info (/me).
Search API could have helped you since you have the email ids of users, but unfortunately this api doesn't support user search with email!
So, answer is simple- NO, you cannot get the ID (profile link) of the user without using the facebook login.
Not that I can think of. Facebook's Graph API gives you some public info but that info given depends on the users Facebook's settings on what is public or not. You could maybe get some users profile picture but not others, making it not a very viable option for practical use. Hope that helps
I have the task to integrate some commercial sharing stuff into a website.
The idea is that the user a) logs in/registers in the website, b) the user connects his user account with his facebook account - by adding and accepting the website application.
Here comes the interesting part - is there a way of linking the facebook account with my website's account so that I can send them updates and promotions directly to their walls programatically?
In the application dialog, it's clearly noted that the user allows the application to write to the user wall so they accept and agree this. Then, for example, if I want to send them a promotion or update directly on their wall using the fb application api, how can I achieve this? All the tutorials I've read consider the user using the Facebook Login
The concrete idea is something like weekly promotion feed that my clients want to allow customers to allow being posted directly on their walls. As I don't have any experience with facebook development, I'd appreciate knowing how, if at all possible, this can be achieved?
Most of what you're suggesting is against policy, and isnt' technically possible either as users need to come back to the app once every 60 days for you to have a valid access_token for them.
The Authentication docs explain how to get access to a user's information with their permission, and the Permission documentation explains which permissions grant access to which functions or fields.
I need the following, any help would be much appreciated.
I Have a registration form.
It inputs the data Name | ID | DOB | TWITTER | FBID
When the user registers it asks for the above values.
Twitter is easy as users can just put in their Twitter ID.
But I Need to get the users Facebook ID in the form.
What would be the best way to do this?
Could i use the 'Connect To Facebook" Feature.
All i need is the Facebook user ID so that i can use it when retiring graph data later on.
I have set up a Facebook Application and am using PHP with a MySQL database.
Thanks
Alex
Well, they have specific APIs for different functions. In your case none of their simple solutions work. You will probably need to use Facebook's Graph API. You should take a look in their PHP SDK. It is a very useful tool. I used it once and it worked perfectly.
You will need to know much, before you get the users is. Also if you want to make that automatically, they will have to be logged in and they will have to confirm access to their personal data from your facebook app.
Good luck!
For any user data you wll need to get permission from user.
You can use Facebook connect.
Make the user log in and get access token, this access token is the key to all user data.
You can use this access token with graph API also.
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