Building an in-app request dialog - facebook

Is there a way of building a custom request dialog, and sending the selected userid(s), the app request. I don't want to be using the multi-friend selector form.

This function here should provide you the ability to send a request to a single person.
<script>
function sendFriendInvite(message,title,to,data){
FB.ui({method: 'apprequests',
to: to,
message: message,
title: title,
data: data
},
function(response) {
if (response && response.request_ids) {
//Sent!
} else {
//Not Sent
}
});
}
</script>
<a onclick="sendFriendInvite('Here is an invite','Send to Invite to Friend', 123456);">Send request to friend 123456</a>

Related

"Games Request only are available for games" - alternative .appInvite

Hello i always use the function() below to invite people to an app:
facebookConnectPlugin.showDialog(
{
method: 'apprequests',
message: 'Check out Givvia!'
},
function(response) {
log(JSON.stringify(response));
httpService.logAppRequest(response);
},
function() {
log('Could not send Message');
}
);
Unfortunately, this function not work anymore for normal App which is NOT A GAME.
I was looking around and i found the these code:
var fbOptions={
url: "URL LINK",
picture:"PICTURE LINK"
};
facebookConnectPlugin.appInvite(fbOptions,
function(postId){
console.log("success");
},
function(error){
console.log("failure");
console.log(error);
alert(JSON.stringify(error));
}
);
Now, i'm able to invite friends but i do not get the response i was get with 'aprrequest'. here i get the refer and the receiver ID of facebook. do anyone know how to get these information with appInvite?

Facebook API feed dialog - prevent unnecessary click

hi,
Using Facebook's API it's possible to prompt a user to post to his/her wall using the feed dialog. However, using the javascript SDK, this requires two clicks: one on the button which brings up the dialog, the other on the "Share" button within the dialog.
Is it possible to get rid of one of these clicks? I thought of two approaches:
Embedding the dialog within an iframe, as Facebook provides a URL for a full page dialog. That will require the user to click only on the "Share" button. Apparently Facebook blocks that option.
Using an access token and display=iframe, but I want to avoid the user having to authorize my application.
Any ideas?
i would suggest you to use fb.api instead.
function PostToMyWall(){
FB.login(function(response)
{
if (response.authResponse)
{
//Post to my wall
FB.api('/me/feed', 'post', {
message: lnk,link: lnk
},
function(response) {
if (!response || response.error) {
// //alert('Error occured');
} else {
// //alert("Successfully Posted to My Wall!");
}
});}else
{
alert('Not logged in');
}}, { scope : 'publish_stream' });
}
My application got a similar function, check it out at www.wootube.woolei.com - "Post to WooTube Page and Group"
or popup when the page using jquery
$(document).ready(function() { FB.ui({method: 'feed',
name: mdtxt,
link: lnk,
picture: hackImageUrl(img,fld),
caption: '<?php echo $clickme; ?>',
description: '<?php echo $app_desc; ?>'
},
function(response) {
if (!response || response.error) {
alert('Error occured');
} else {
alert("Successfully Posted to Group");
}
});});

Request dialog improvements

I want improve my request dialog multi selector.
This is the actual dialog request of my application:
But I have seen others request dialog here:
this request dialog select automaticly 50 friends.
How I can do it?
This is my actual dialog code:
<script>
FB.init({
appId : '290349771061160',
frictionlessRequests: true,
});
function sendRequestToRecipients() {
var user_ids = document.getElementsByName("user_ids")[0].value;
FB.ui({method: 'apprequests',
message: 'SELEZIONA 25 AMICI',
to: user_ids,
}, requestCallback);
}
function sendRequestViaMultiFriendSelector() {
FB.ui({method: 'apprequests',
message: 'SELEZIONA 25 AMICI'
}, requestCallback);
}
function requestCallback(response) {
// Handle callback here
}
function requestCallback(response) {
if((response != null) &&(response != false))
{
alert('ADESSO CLICCA IN ALTO A DESTRA SU MI PIACE');
}
// Handle callback here
}
</script>
Requests Dialog allow you to specify to which friends you want the request to be sent by specifying comma separated friends ids in to field (see direct request) (this is exactly what you can see on second picture).
The only difference between first and second is the to parameter which is empty for first one and filled for second.

Cakephp Facebook Plugin - Sharing through an action

I am using Nick Baker's (webtechnick) CakePHP / Facebook plugin which is awesome and works great, however I have a question that I can't seem to even come close to answer for.
How would I bypass the use of a share button and share directly through an action?
For instance, I make a post through my site and the post adds to the DB as it should, it also shoots a post to the logged in users Twitter account through the action. How can I also have this action handle sharing it to my FB account (connection has already been made).? I tried the first thing I think anyone would obviously try $this->Facebook->share() directly in the action, too no avail...
Any thoughts or solutions would be of great help...
UPDATE AFTER ANSWER
Thx for the help spooney. I voted your answer up because you are 100% spot on from what I can tell. I am loading the JS SDK.
function init($options = null, $reload = true) {
if (empty($options)) {
$options = array();
}
if ($appId = FacebookInfo::getConfig('appId')) {
$session = json_encode($this->Session->read('FB.Session'));
if ($reload) {
$callback = "FB.Event.subscribe('auth.login',function(){window.location.reload()});";
} else {
$callback = "if(typeof(facebookReady)=='function'){facebookReady()}";
}
$callback .= "FB.Event.subscribe('auth.logout',function() {window.location = '/bastards/users/logout'});";
$init = '<div id="fb-root"></div>';
$init .= $this->Html->scriptBlock(
<<<JS
window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
FB.init({
appId : '{$appId}',
status : true, // check login status
cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session
xfbml : true, // parse XFBML
oauth : true // use Oauth
});
{$callback}
};
(function() {
var e = document.createElement('script');
e.src = document.location.protocol + '//connect.facebook.net/{$this->locale}/all.js';
e.async = true;
document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e);
}());
JS
, $options);
return $init;
} else {
return "<span class='error'>No Facebook configuration detected. Please add the facebook configuration file to your config folder.</span>";
}
}
I have no problem pulling in the user information and working with all that. I have accomplished posting to FB from my site, but it was only through a link, using FB.ui...
<br><font style="color:#FFF; text-decoration:none;padding-left:27px;">post to wall</font><br>
<script>
function publishStory() {
FB.ui({
method: 'feed',
name: 'message name',
caption: 'message caption ',
description: 'description goes here',
link: 'the url current page',
picture: 'if you want to add an image'
},
function(response) {
console.log('publishStory response: ', response);
});
return false;
}
</script>
I have tried replacing the code above with...
<br><font style="color:#FFF; text-decoration:none;padding-left:27px;">post to wall</font><br>
<script>
function publishStory() {
var body = 'Reading JS SDK documentation';
FB.api('/me/feed', 'post', { message: body }, function(response) {
if (!response || response.error) {
alert('Error occured');
} else {
alert('Post ID: ' + response.id);
}
});
}
</script>
But it errors everytime.
I should also throw in there that the post on the users FB wall isn't really coming from the site persay, it's a post from the user on their own wall basically stating, "I made a post on ladala.com, you should go check it out at ."
So now I'm at the point that I need to figure out how to run FB.ui through the action that submits the post.
Based on our conversation, I figured I would just put a more complete description in an answer.
You can fire a share call using the JavaScript SDK.
First, you would need to load the JavaScript SDK as described in the Loading section of https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/.
Once loaded into your page, the two calls you want to look at are FB.getLoginStatus, and FB.api. FB.getLoginStatus will give you back a response telling you if the user is logged in to facebook, and if they have approved your application. This link will describe the functionality of getLoginStatus, but in short, you need to check for response.connected(and then possibly do another call to confirm a user's permissions, if required).
If the user is logged in and has approved your app, you can then attempt to make an API call using FB.api. Keep in mind to do this, you will likely need the user to have allowed the publish_stream permission.
Your code would look something like this:
//Do FB initialization
FB.getLoginStatus(function(response) {
if (response.status === 'connected') {
FB.api('/me/feed', 'post', { message: body }, function(response) {
if (!response || response.error) {
//Post was successful
}
});
}
});
This can be triggered any way you want. On page load, on click, on completion of some other event, etc.
Keep in mind this is just one way to implement this. Also, if you are trying to share something with your FB application, and it is not working, you should confirm that you have all the permissions required to do so.

Sencha Touch and Facebook button

I need to create a button to submit a comment on Face Book wall.
I am using MVC in Sencha touch and in my controller I use a function as
facebookComment: function()
{
--------
}
This function is to be called when a button is pressed.
Can any body please throw some light on how to go about this?
i am using following code to post on friends wall see if it is useful to you or not
var postParams = {
method: 'stream.publish'
, target_id: friend_id
, display: 'popup'
, message: message
, user_message_prompt: "Post message!"
}
FB.api(postParams, function(response) {
if(response.error_code || !response) {
to handle error
}
});
or refer this link https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/rest/stream.publish/
Well, first you should already be using the Javascript SDK. Then just issue a HTTP POST request to the feed connection of the current user using the FB.api() method with the message field set to your comment:
var body = comment_var;
FB.api('/me/feed', 'post', { message: body }, function(response) {
if (!response || response.error) {
alert('Error occured');
} else {
alert('Post ID: ' + response.id);
}
});
Obviously, should be taking care of the user login status (maybe using the method FB.getLoginStatus()).