Hello fellow community members,
I was unable to find a helpful answer, so I will give this a try: I recently developed a website that has a FB "Recommend" (same as "Like") button implemented. I have never dealt with this before, hence my complete lack of knowledge.
Now, I implemented the code the FB developer's Like page (--> http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/) creates correctly into the website (both the script and the DIV-tag, yet something that is not automatically generated seems to be missing and needs to be added for the button to work correctly. It currently does not post to the FB wall.
Upon doing a debugging check, I received the following results: [...]
Unfortunately, I have no clue what to do with that data. How and where exactly in the HTML code do I implement those missing TAGS and PROPERTIES? Any help would be highly appreciated...
Kind regards & many thanks in advance, :-)
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It looks like you're missing the Open Graph meta tags. Those go into the head of your page.
Facebook has a generator to help you create the tags, but you'll need to add them into your markup.
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I'm working on a site for a client. The site is built in Joomla and is using a Facebook like button on each page. When a user clicks a like button it unclicks itself after a second or two.
I've seen several similar problems here but none have provided enough insight to help me figure out what to do to fix this problem.
I ran the page through the Facebook debugger:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theartoflove.net%2Findex.php%2F9-blog%2Fmen%2F27-go-ahead-and-ask-her-out
but I don't have a clue how to figure out what that result is telling me. The URL I used as a test in the debugger is:
http://www.theartoflove.net/index.php/9-blog/men/27-go-ahead-and-ask-her-out
Anyone know what I need to do to fix this problem? It seems to happen regardless of what like box I put on the site (I've tried three different ones so far).
My sincere thanks for any help!
When I clicked the like button, a small 'CONFIRM' link appeared under the "Like" widget, i had to click the 'CONFIRM' link (which brought up a dialog box asking me to confirm that I liked the page) in order to get the "Like" to stick.
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Facebook sometimes makes the arbitrary determination that your page is 'spammy' and adds extra precautions like 'CONFIRM'. That may be part of what is going on.
The code is reentrant and the developer is flipping the bit instead of verifying the current state with a conditional before setting the value. (This is a common coding mistake. Too common.)
I am having a go at trying to get the Facebook API SDK for ColdFusion working.
https://github.com/affinitiz/facebook-cf-sdk
I have followed all the steps and it seems to work well (using only server-side login).
However, if I leave the page for say, an hour, when I return and refresh the page (which was showing my profile name and friends list) it shows up with an error that I am unable to get rid of, unless I clear the cookies.
Is there something I am missing with this FB login? Am I meant to be checking against something manually in order to persist the session?
Looking at my cookies, I have the following stored:
fbm_155030275875
fbsr_155030275875
CFID
CFTOKEN
It's all new to me, so I'm a bit lost. I can't see anything in the docs for the SDK about this and Googling the error brings nothing.
I have attached a screenshot of the error.
I'd appreciate any help you can offer!
Thanks,
Michael.
I'm not familiar enough with that particular project, but in general, your code should be requesting the various Graph API calls, and requesting the token as necessary. If the token has expired, you request a new one. I'd expect the facebook-cf-sdk product to do this, but again, I'm unfamiliar with it.
Good news is, the Facebook Graph API is just a series of HTTP calls. See my talk at NC DevCon for an example of logging in and making some graph calls: (a bit long; go to about the 1:42:00 mark)
http://textiles.online.ncsu.edu/online/Play/61d0900d63fd4c1cb862622d1c8e13521d?catalog=35211b84-031b-4a18-8875-506f09b9b3a7
GitHub repo:
https://github.com/bdcravens/ncdevcon2012-handson-auth (note the branches - check out the step4 branch)
These don't answer your question 100%, but they may be a good starting point for you.
Ok, I figured out how to solve this issue using a solution someone provided on Github. I just wanted to post this here in case someone else encountered the issue and wasn't sure how to solve it. In my case however, after I applied the solution from that post was I need to do a page refresh. Link below.
https://github.com/affinitiz/facebook-cf-sdk/issues/31
So, same Problem like the Guy before and alot more people on the web, but this time i try to make a good discription. My english is not perfect, but please realise that i really try to tell you the details here.
There is a Function in the Famous Phoca Gallery Plugin for Joomla to integrate whole Facebook-Albums into the Gallery-System and show them next to the local ablums and pictures of the website in the same style and css.
here the detailed description by the deveopener of phoca gallery, how this integration normaly works, please look here:
http://www.phoca.cz/documents/2-phoca-gallery-component/443-displaying-facebook-albums
So, easy to tell: U have to create an facebook-application, give phoca galery the usernamem & pw, App-ID and secret-nr and it gets the rest of the needed data automatically via facebook.
Then, you have to create an new category inside of the phoca galerysystem and define the Facebook-Album you want as source. this is finally the step, that doesnt work with my page. U have to select the choosen facebook user, this is working, but if I try to select an fb-album of this user, i just get following error:
Facebook API Failure: Unknown method (3)
Normaly, on most Systems its working, but there are a few systems, where its just not working. Have a look on this forum, a lot of people have the same error like me.
http://www.phoca.cz/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23126
Developeners of Phoca tried to fix, but finally they started to tell the people, they should ask the developeners of facebook, because since now nobody was sucessfull to fix or just find the error.
So, this is now the try to tell u about this problem, maybe there is a way
Hopefully u are not just closing this, if anybody knows the problem and and have a fix, PLEASE tell
Not sure about phoca gallery, but I've developed a plugin for showing your Facebook albums (fanpage only) into your Joomla site. Thousands of people are using it successfully on their sites. It also has a WordPress version.
BTW, It's not free.
JFBAlbum
JFBAlbum Demo
I am working on an online store.
It's made with Prestashop 1.3.6
I am trying to embed a like and send button in the product page.
I have set up my og tags,and tested it with the debugger.
My problem is that the tags only get read by facebook if I hardcode them in the header.tpl.
If I pass smarty variables the tags appear as empty.
It's kind of driving me crazy because I can not find someone with the same problem.
The tags appear in the browser source code in both cases (hard-coded and variable).
But facebook reads them only when I hardcode them.
Here is the link to my site,maybe you can figure it out.
The thing that I don't understand is that before putting og:tags,facebook was taking the default title and description tags off my page.
And those tags were passed by variable.
So I really don't understand why it doesn't work.
Any ideas ?
Thanx a lot in advance!
I have a website with a link that says "Click here to claim your prize" and that link goes to a Sales Force catch all web-to-lead form (that multiple sites use and it has a site ID that I append to the URL so the data goes to the right account)
When a user clicks that link and goes to the form page a string (in this case it's the promo code "my prize") needs to be passed to that form page and placed in the comments form field.
My questions are how is this done, are there any tutorials you could point me to, and is there a better method for accomplishing this?
What I'm trying to avoid is having the link say "Click here to win a free prize! Must enter "My Prize" in the comments" and having the user manually enter the promo code.
Thanks muchly in advance for your help!
I've used a handy jQuery script in the past called preset.js, although the instructions are not that great it's fairly simple to implement, you may have to pick through his source code though.
This question may be better on stack overflow but I found this blog post which shows example code using php and cURL to post to the web-to-lead form
http://www.paulwest.co.uk/article.php/salesforce-form-integration-with-php
This is another post about pushing leads to salesforce with php
http://sim.plified.com/2009/02/13/pushing-leads-to-salesforce-with-php/
And one more for good luck
http://www.seobywebmechanix.com/salesforce-php-form-processor-curl-tutorial
Hope these help