I implemented facebook comments across a legacy, custom CMS. I used the XFBML implementation. Everything works as expected except when clicking the links back to the article page from a commenter's facebook feed the comment box does not show any comments. The link is of this form:
{Article URL}?fb_comment_id={comment_id_string}
And if I remove the comment parameter and only go to the article url the comment box renders correctly with the comment and all other comments on the article. So, it's some issue with the fb_comment_id parameter. One weird thing about how I had to implement the comments is, because of how the routing on the site works, I could not use server side code to set the the URL parameter in the <fb:comments> object. So I had to use this jquery code in the <head>:
<script>
// assign current page to comments url
$(document).ready(function() {
$('fb\\:comments').each(function(){
$(this).attr('href', window.location);
});
});
</script>
And used this for the actual <fb:comments> code:
<fb:comments href="{site's root URL}" num_posts="8" width="570"></fb:comments>
So, I figure doing this client side may be causing the issue. Not doing this server side is a hard constraint though, and everything else works so I'm hopeful there may be some way to make this work. If making the comment link work correctly is impossible, a reasonable hack would be to rewrite the link in the facebook feed so that it just points to the article url without adding the comment parameter. Any suggestions? Thanks!
NOTE: I've also tried using the html5 comments implementation and there is the same issue.;
Once facebook has rendered the iframe based upon your fb:comments tag, does it have the correct url? I am thinking it does not. You may have to call FB.XFBML.parse() after you inject the complete
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I try to share an URL that contains query parameter in FB.
Here is my share link
Sharing works but my custom query parameter is gone and replaced with facebook query parameters in the facebook timeline something like here
The same problem when FB.ui({ method: 'share',... is used.
It worked well on previous version of facebook sharing sharer.php but it's deprecated now and I have no idea how to make current share work.
We faced same problem. We instead used Feed Dialog that works fine. The irony is that if you read on facebook's developer's site Facebook is recommending us using Share Dialog in place of Feed dialog however, Share dialog does not work as expected.
Here is the link to get more information on Feed dialog
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/feed-dialog/v2.2
Personally i like Feed dialog more the share cause it gives you some additional properties to manage how dialog should appear
i assume you solved your problem in a different way already but i have found a solution for this. Just in case somebody else comes across this question.
Facebook strips the parameters only when it is more or less sure that the file is an php file.
So for http://example.com/?test=1
or http://example.com/index.php?test=1
the parameters are removed.
But if you make it look like a normal html file, it works:
http://example.com/whatever.htm?test=1
for example is posted with the parameters.
Of course you can use some simple mod_rewrite Rule to redirect the request to the original php file:
RewriteRule /whatever.htm(\?.*) /index.php%1
(rule is untested but should work hopefully)
I kindly ask you to advise why Facebook Comments sometimes do not appear on my site.
I use standard code generated from Facebook Developers site.
Please note that the Comments box is located under the colored frame. Usually, it appears after reloading the page. Real site examples:
http://wakemovies.com/?ND201206190204
http://wakemovies.com/?BL201206190157
If I recall correctly Facebook comments require a bit of customization to the dock-type they have special format.
You should add this line tou your dock type
xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml"
One more thing you are overloading your page with Facebook like buttons. I think one is more than enough considering most people have sharing plugins installed int they browsers.
I solved this by adding a setTimeout with a delay of 1 second
example:
setTimeout(function() {
// Your Facebook Comments JavaScript Code Here
}, 1000);
I'm looking to integrate the "like" button into a website, but I'm a little confused with the information available on the web. I read this article, which was in another stackoverflow article, but have some questions: http://www.saschakimmel.com/2010/05/how-to-capture-clicks-on-the-facebook-like-button/.
I've setup a "Page" already in facebook, and from what I understand in the link above, you need to setup an "App" to get an API key. What I don't understand though is that if I use this API Key, it's going to be pointing to my newly created "App", which has no fan base. How do I link this API Key, (or setup another key through the page admin), so I can have users "like" the real facebook page?
I want to run some javascript functions the moment a user likes the page, but I'm also a little confused on what API functions call, and whether these return a true/false value? I only really want to run these js functions if the user has not already liked the page..
Hope this all makes sense, would love any explanations you have to offer to point me in the right direction.
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after making a page and registering for it on face book, you will get a link, o trough the process again. Then just paste this link on your web site and you will get the like box. Paste it in a div tag.
You can also make a function in js which calls this like box and on its dependency you can call other js functions also.
//js code
function js()
{
create element div;
}
function other()
{
js();
}
If you just want an like button in your page , go to http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
paste your fb page url in "URL to Like (?)" text box
get the code
paste in the div box of ur web site source code where you want it to appear
I have a GWT app and Im trying to put fb social plugin comment in side of my page. However I have the folowing problem.
If I put the tag in my .html it works perfect, but If I put id dynamically (like with an HTML widjet), It does not work. It just does not display anything.
Can anyone help me? Im having this problem in general, not only with the fb:comment tag.
Note: If I use the iframe implementation of, for example, "fb:like", it works perfect.
My understanding of facebook's api is that it loads your content, and parses out the tags in the fb namespace, replacing them before the actual content is drawn for the user. In contrast, none of the GWT compiled code (or indeed any Javascript code) gets a chance to make changes to the dom until the page has loaded in the browser fully, after facebook has made the changes it needs to.
My advice: Put the fb namespaced tags on the initial page, but perhaps wrap them in a div and mark them as display:none. Then you can grab them from your GWT code and wrap them up in a widget, only to be displayed when you are ready.
Till yesterday everything was working fine.
In my website's head there was
<script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script>
and links like
<a name="fb_share" share_url="http://mysite.com/url"></a>
were transformed to facebook share plugins.
But now there is a problem - i can't see count of shares in plugin. I sniffed requests a little and the error is:
fb_sharepro_render({"error_code":104,"error_msg":"Requires valid signature","request_args":[{"key":"v","value":"1.0"}
I did not change anything on website and problem still occurs. Any hints?
Edit (probably an answer):
This bug is described here: http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=19471
Facebook team response:
Thanks for the report. We are looking into this.
We recommend to use the like button instead as we are going to deprecate the
share button soon. The like button provides you with the same functionality and
more ...
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
Also, works solution with request to http://graph.facebook.com/?ids=*.
For example, while issue is not fixed by facebook, you can use a little modified facebook share widget script, it use a graph.facebook.com instead of api.facebook.com/restserver.php.
You have to introduce access_token also as a parameter. Find what facebook says
GET /fql?q=SELECT+uid2+FROM+friend+WHERE+uid1=me()&access_token=...