one question.
I've a facebook page that represents a product.
I've added some tabs in the page, beside About, Likes, Photos, Videos, Notes... to explain better my product functionalities.
I would like to have a tab with a photo uploader, to let any user who liked my page to add photos to a specific Photo Album in my Photos section.
I was using the application Static HTML Plus to add static HTML into my tab. But for the tab that upload photos, this application is not what i need. Is there a way to make a tab refer to another script, that could be easily reached throuhg an URL in my server. Or are there any outher solutions?
Thanks in advance
Users can only post photos to the page feed, but not in albums. You need a page token to do this.
Create a long living token with the needed permissions and let your app upload the photo. You can link the user in the photo-message by using his id.
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On my website there is possible post image from computer. But I would like also provide user to post image from facebook user album. I can imagine some dialog like "Facebook login" which will open faceook images and provide user to send image from facebook to my application. Does something like that possible? Many thanks
Yes, it is possible.
I assume you have a little experience with facebook api.
trigger login FB login window and request user_photos permission
make a query to facebook to get (all/random/a few) user albums like so me/albums?fields=id,count
If a key count is set, there are photos
(I would collect all IDs of albums containing photos and make a query to facebook with ech one ID)
Then again, query to facebook like so /%album-id%?fields=photos.fields(images)
Now you have an array of URLs of images which, for example you show to a user and after he selects, you download it and upload to your server
Since you did not request a solid code, I will provide you with at least with a little snippet, or show an illustration how to do that. http://paste2.org/hvGkngIL. (a metod index) (Might not work properly, since I cut it from a PHP framework I work with)
How can I make all shares from my facebook page to be shown in users timeline as shared
'via my_app_name' ?
That will be done when the shares are actually done by your real app. You cannot add 'via my_app_name' on your own.
For example:
If you play a level on Angry Birds, and get a new high score. It will be saved there and the app name will be saved, or when you upload or post a new content on Twitter or Tumblr, you will see that there is the name of app too. Otherwise facebook just lets you edit your 'feeling...' 'in...' 'with...' but not 'via...'.
Create an app:
You can create the app, and then use it to share content! You can check out there developer documents to let your app share content from web or facebook on your timeline! This way, users will see your content being shared 'via my_app_name'.
Bravo!
Once done! It will automatically do the job for you to show the 'via...' thing. Else facebook won't allow you to edit that and every post will not have the 'via...' object saved in it!
I'm designing a photo-oriented Facebook app that would let users tell stories in the app-specific way and advertise such stories by posting a single, preferably large, "cover" photo. Photo posting is done by the app and people that would like to see the story need an easy and obvious way of being redirected to the corresponding app-generated page. So hence is the question.
Is it possible for a Facebook app to post a maximally large (column-wide) photo on the user's behalf, so that when others (non-users included) click on the photo, it takes them to a specific page that is related to the app instead of zooming into the photo by default? If not, what would be the best workaround?
To get the maximum large photo on news feed, you should look into user generated photos, which requires two additional parameters you add to your open graph action to indicate that the user-generated photo should have maximum photo display on news feed and ticker.
Example OG POST:
https://graph.facebook.com/me/nyccookbook:cook?
recipe=http://www.yourdomain.com/pizza.html&
image[0][url]=http://www.yourdomain.com/images/my_camera_pizza_pic.jpg&
image[0][user_generated]=true&
access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN
If the photo is not user-generated, then explicit sharing is an alternative to get maximum display size on news feed and ticker provided that you follow all the requirements and guidelines for explicit sharing.
when others (non-users included) click on the photo, it takes them to a specific page that is related to the app instead of zooming into the photo by default
This is not possible because FB users expect the behavior to zoom the photo in when clicking on it. If clicking on a photo launches an URL, it is a bad user experience because that is not what anyone expects when clicking on a photo on FB.
The best workaround I can think of is to edit the description of the image with a link to your specific page on your app, such that when a FB user sees the picture, they can click the link in the description to go where you want.
I don't see the answer I'm looking for, so hopefully someone can help.
I have a PHP script, which displays data from an SQL database. The dynamic elements are pulled in, essentially showing details of a job listing. On this page, I have a Facebook share URL.
Example:
<a title="Post on Facebook"
href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://www.mywebsite.com/joblisting/details.php?job_id=1345488636.3750">
POST ON FACEBOOK
</a>
When the user clicks that link, they get the Facebook page to post this to their Facebook page. The page they are on pre-populates with my page title, page description, etc.
And if I have an image on my page, that becomes the default thumbnail image for the FB post. I also set a defualt Facebook image in my metatag, and that works too. I also added up to 10 other images on my page, so that the user could choose from 1 of 10 images as the default thumbnail. But...
I wanted to be able to let the user choose a thumbnail image from their desktop. Is this possible?
The image that's used in the Share dialog needs to exist somewhere on the web before the dialog is invoked, so you'd need to allow the user to upload it somewhere before popping the dialog in order to do what you're suggesting.
I have a Facebook application in which a user can upload photos to a facebook fanpage. I am having trouble figuring out how to upload the photo as the user that is using the application. Currently I can have the fanpage upload the photo as itself, so the fanpage loses the author of the photo.
To do this I am grabbing the fan page's auth token(which I am assuming is the reason the app is posting as the fan page) and using that to pass to the "photos" method of the api. I am using the AS3 api, but I am sure the concept is the same no matter which api I am using.
var values:Object = {message:"message here", name:"title here"};
values.access_token = fanPageAccessToken;
values.image = file;
Facebook.api('fanPageId/photos/', handleUploadComplete, values,'POST');
When I change to the user's access token the image is uploaded to the user's photos. Even though I am specifying the fanPageId, it gets uploaded to the user's photos.
I am struggling here. Does anyone have an idea I can try, or some insight to share?
Thank you so much, I appreciate your time!
I've tried every possible API combination to post a photo to a page from the user, but it's no use. A user cannot post a photo to a page. Even creating an album on the page and then posting to that doesn't work.