I'm using FBConnect to post messages on facebook. I'm able to let the user log in and post on his wall. The thing I don't know is how to share the app. I tried to put the itunes link of the app in the message, but it post a link to itunes as I wrote. Is it possible to add the app icon etc ... as it is when you put the link directly on facebook ?
I'm not sure Facebook would let you post URLs with a different scheme than http. Otherwise, people could be sharing all kinds of nasty stuff on Facebook. Best bet would be to link to a site that has a redirect to the iTunes link, but make sure you redirect using JavaScript. Facebook can follow meta refresh tags.
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I need a code for inviting friends to a fanpage.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/requests/
This is linking to the website. Is it possible to link to my fb fanpage?
Actually if you read the whole documents, that Request feature is for Facebook Application only. But here's a work around :
Create a Facebook Application
Have a great content where everyone wants to have
Put a Like Gate before they can access your great content
You can still use the App Request for your app while the user likes your page
I created a FB App to facilitate FB Connect authentication on my website.
Users can share content from my site to Facebook via the same FB app.
We also created a FB Fan Page to grow our community reach.
However a FB App is a separate entity than a Fan Page, whatever content is shared via our website to FB the App link sends the users to an empty App page while all the fuzz is in our Fan page.
I did an extensive research for this issue and only came up with this useful post here in stackoverflow: "Fan page vs Application Page".
Ideally i'd want the App link ("... via appName") on every shared item to point to our fan page.
I need to know if this is an issue that FB needs to address, if i am missing something and what do you do to solve this situation
Some apps are able to do this :
http://mediafeedia.com/pro/
http://www.postplanner.com/white-label-facebook-app/
I also would be interested to know how they do this.
I've checked all app settings...
No, the App attribution on posts made via the API returns the user to that app's profile page - you'd need to have information there directing them back to your brand page if that's where you want them to go after they end up there.
I think in most cases people would click the name of the page or one of the links in the post rather than that small link at the bottom, no?
I have a few questions about Facebook PHP SDK I haven't found the answers to yet, hope someone here can help.
I have made a page where users connect to Facebook to be able to share things via my site on their wall. I don't want to use the offline_permission. But I need to be able to delay post, cause sometimes we need to confirm choices they use. I read that YOU CAN post at any time with stream_publish, but you need to post as THE APP and not THE USER. Right now I think I post as the user. How do I post as the app?
Thanks!
Read the Facebook Authentication documentation, specifically the section titled "App Login" where it tells you how to authenticate as the application. Basically you navigate to this url: https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token? client_id=YOUR_APP_ID&client_secret=YOUR_APP_SECRET&grant_type=client_credentials and that will give you a session token to act as your page.
My aim is to make a facebook fanpage for a client who wants his blogposts to automatically show up on his fanpage.
I've already read several posts here in the forums. I've tried several methods to auto-publish wordpress posts to a fanpage in facebook.(notes, ...) The last method I used was making an app and using the "Simple Facebook Connect" plugin for wp.
I got quite confusing with this. I have an app called "myClient" and a fanpage called "myClient". If I publish a blogpost, it automatically shows up on the fanpage but "via myClient". Is there a way on get rid of the facebook app? I don't want to show up the via-sentences because the app is just the connection between wp and fb and has no content at all (the content is on the fanpage)
Hopefully you can help me with that!
Thanks in advance.
Whenever you want to publish something on Facebook, you need a Facebook Application as it's the "trusted" connection between your source and Facebook (this is why you have the App Secret and all the authentication/authorization process..etc).
So, How to auto-publish wordpress post to facebook fanpage without a facebook app?
You can't! But what you can do is changing the App name to something the Client would agree on (and not being "already taken", of course!).
You can use the notes facility available. It is updated when the RSS address you provide updates.
Actually there is a way to get rid of the Facebook App - by using third parties automatic Facebook publishing tools like ZapRobot - in that way you actually lean on someone else's FB API APP. Note that then you give "manage_pages" permission to the third party. The process should be:
1) Register with ZapRobot - this is a Facebook login, you give them posting rights to your page
2) Define a job that posts A LINK (ignore their categories) while the link is pointing to the RECENT wordpress item on your blog
Good luck :-)
From my iPhone app I would like to share a link on Facebook. I know that this can be done by creating an app in the facebook and use the id/key of that Facebook app.
Is there any other way for sharing a link in FB, like the AddThis library for webapps. So that I neednot create an app in the facebook
AddThis has iOS Sdk now : http://www.addthis.com/help/ios-overview
Not that I know of. AFAIK, the best & easiest way to do this is w a Facebook app. User authentication (through a Facebook app) is required in order to post anything to a wall; anonymous wall posts are not allowed. It's really easy to create a Facebook app. Then, check out the facebook-ios-sdk.
Unfortunately you cannot have anonymous wall posts to facebook, so I would recommend using the sdk, if you only need to post to walls, take a look at www.getsharekit.com which will make this trivial to do