I'm writing a Facebook iframe/Facebook Connect application and one of the pages includes a multi-friend-selector. It renders perfectly in every browser I tried (FF/Mac, Safari/Mac, IE8/Win) but does not render at all in IE7/Win. I waited and waited (in case it was just being slow) and it never appeared.
Here's my code.
<fb:serverfbml style="width:750px;height:700px">
<script type="text/fbml">
<fb:fbml>
<fb:request-form
action="<? echo $invite_href; ?>"
method="post"
type="<? echo $app_name; ?>"
content="<? echo htmlentities($content,ENT_COMPAT,'UTF-8'); ?>">
<div class="clearfix" style="padding-right:20px;" height="500" width="750">
<fb:multi-friend-selector
actiontext="Here are your friends who don't have <? echo $app_name; ?> yet. Invite your friends and let them help too - it's free!"
exclude_ids="<? echo $friends; ?>" />
</div>
</fb:request-form>
</fb:fbml>
</script>
</fb:serverfbml>
The other required things (FeatureLoader.js and all that) are (must be) properly included, since the friend selector and every other fb tag I use around the application works perfectly. The serverfbml tag is the ONLY thing giving me trouble in IE7. Most people seem to have a problem with the selector rendering at an annoying 150px tall - I can't seem to find anyone else who has a problem with it not rendering at all.
You do not need the closing tags because you're rendering FBML insdie the serverfbml tag, not xfbml. Another thing I noticed is you're passing PHP variables into it, whereas I'm pretty sure Facebook strips out all your php from within the server fbml, I may be wrong though.
Daniel
Another SO post, which solved my problem: Why does this XFBML markup embedded within an iframe'd facebook application not display anything?
Are you using IE Tester to test ie6? If so it fails to render, this is an IE Tester bug.
Facebook is encouraging developers to switch to Requests 2.0. FBML is being deprecated and so reliance on fb:serverFbml will likely by phased out at some point this year. Fortunately there is a MUCH easier way to do this using the JavaScript SDK and it even works on websites.
FB.ui({method:'apprequests',...});
Learn more about using this here: http://af-design.com/blog/2011/02/17/using-facebook-requests-to-promote-a-website/
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I am looking for a way to integrate several Facebook Comment Boxes on one page, but with different comments. i have an image grid view and inserted in the lightbox overlays the code from the Facebook comment box generator. With an random number at the end of the URL i tried to fix it, but there comes the error:
Warning: https://URL/#2087943573 can not be opened.
Any ideas?
You just have to add an anchor to the absolute URL, like it is explained in another thread:
Multiple facebook comment boxes on a single page?
You can even test this in the plugin generator:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments/
...try changing "http://example.com" to "http://example.com#test" and you will see that some other people already commented on that one too.
edit: After a small chat, we found out that the problem might be with the https. So, maybe it just doesn´t work with SSL, i´ve also tried with another server and it only works with the http link.
Try to make "fake" pages for each article that you have with GET variable. For the example:
example.com?fb_share=article1, example.com?fb_share=article2, etc.
Then here you must put the URL:
<div class="fb-comments" data-href="http://example.com?fb_share=article1" data-numposts="5" data-colorscheme="light"></div>
and
<div class="fb-comments" data-href="http://example.com?fb_share=article2" data-numposts="5" data-colorscheme="light"></div>
You don't need to use these pages, but you need it because when someone commenting, the FB comment will be posted on the wall with backlink to your article and for data-href attribute.
By doing these code, it works for my site. Using $_SESSION while looping and echoing data from MySQL database.
<div id= "area_post">
<?php
$query= mysql_query("select * from promo_diskon");
$url_id=0;
while($data= mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){
$textpromo = nl2br($data['deskripsi']);
$_SESSION["url_id"]="http://localhost/xampp/kerjapraktik/promo_diskon.php?posting=".$url_id."";
echo
"<div id='posting'>
<div id='layer'><div class='judul'>".$data['judul']."</div><div class='tanggal'>".$data['tanggal']."</div>
<br/ ><br /><p id= 'deskripsi1' class='deskripsi1'>".$textpromo."</p></div>
<a href=''><img class= 'img-thumbnail' src= ".$data['url_foto']." width= '440px' alt=''></a>
</div>";
//echo '<div class="fb-comments" data-href="http://localhost/xampp/kerjapraktik/promo_diskon.php?posting="'.$url_id.'"" data-width="956" data-numposts="5" data-colorscheme="dark"></div>';
echo '<div class="fb-comments" data-href="'.$_SESSION["url_id"].'" data-width="956" data-numposts="5" data-colorscheme="dark"></div>';
$url_id++;
}
?>
</div>
I am trying out serving DFP ads in email. I'm following the guidelines here.
I have an ad unit set up just for email
I have a line item targeting that ad unit with just an image creative
The line item doesn't have any targeting restrictions or anything like that
The ad will show up in the email, at least the first time. The strange thing that I'm seeing is, after the first click, clicking on the ad again will often bring me to a blank page rather than the click-through page of the creative. Also, when I reopen the message, occasionally the image will not load. The code in the email looks like this:
<a href="https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?iu=/{my_pub_id}/300x250_email&sz=300x250&c={cachebuster}&tile=1">
<img src="https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ad?iu=/{my_pub_id}/300x250_email&sz=300x250&c={cachebuster}&tile=1" />
</a>
We've solved this by turning off cookies in the standard tag using the co= option; adding co=1 to the tag.
<a href="https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/{my_pub_id}/300x250_email&sz=300x250&c={cachebuster}&tile=1">
<img src="https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ad?co=1&iu=/{my_pub_id}/300x250_email&sz=300x250&c={cachebuster}&tile=1" />
</a>
The only problem (for us) that this creates is that we're unable to serve 3rd party tags, even ones that resolve directly to .gifs, using the standard tag.
Had the same problem and I solved it by using script to redirect click via script on my web server where ad is shown again so that all the cookies can be set.
Link looks like this:
http://www.mysite.com/dfpclick.php?adunit=mailing&cbuster=1369608725
Script dfpclick.php:
<?php
/* Google DFP url redirect*/
if ($_REQUEST['adunit']) {
$sUrl = 'http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?iu=/%mygoogleid%/'.$_REQUEST['adunit'].'&sz=1x1&c='.$_REQUEST['cbuster'];
}
?>
<html>
<head>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=<?=$sUrl?>">
</head>
<body>
<?php
if ($_REQUEST['adunit']) {
echo '<img src="http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ad?iu=/%mygoogleid%/'.$_REQUEST['adunit'].'&sz=1x1&c='.$_REQUEST['cbuster'].'" width="0" height="0" border="0" style="width:0px; height:0px;" alt=""/>';
}
?>
</body>
</html>
It turns out that DFP for small business requires cookie support to work, even when using the non-JavaScript method of calling ads. So it works fine in web-based clients like Gmail, but it doesn't work in Outlook and the like. DFP Premium can supposedly serve ads in email without requiring cookies.
Using the co= option doesn't work for DFP Small Business. My workaround is:
Use the same code for img <img src="https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ad?iu=/{my_pub_id}/300x250_email&sz=300x250&c={cachebuster}" />
And build a redirect link on your website <a href="http://yourwebsite.com/adunit/300x250_email">. This page reads and filters the response from http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/adx?iu=/{my_pub_id}/300x250_email&sz=300x250&c={cachebuster} in order to get the click-tracking link using javascript link=$(xmlDoc).find('a').attr('href'); and redirect.
This workaround doesn't work for rotation (more than one creative/line item is competing for the same ad unit at the same time).
I'd like to know how to serve email ads in rotation using DFP SB
I have a fairly simple jQuery mobile app, which works fine as a web app (tested in browsers on desktops/smartphones) but when porting it to android using phonegap, I have one major issue. It occurs both on a real phone and in an AVD.
there's a form in the app, like:
<div data-theme="a" data-role="dialog" id="a-form">
<div data-role="content">
<h3>...</h3>
<form action="http://a-live-site.com/a-form.php" method="post">
...
<div data-role="fieldcontain">
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
Its response content loads perfectly in the browser (the action is a relative link there), but within phonegap I just get a white screen and the hardware back button exits the app instead of the usual step back in history. The puzzling thing is that the request actually gets through. The server side code triggers an email, so I know the server is getting the request. I have added the appropriate <access /> rules in the phonegap.xml file, but I'm not sure that's enough.
EDIT: the form is in static content so, in phonegap, it's loaded by file:// and shouldn't have cross-domain issues.
The problem was due to data-role="dialog" in the result. Using page fixed it. It only broke in phonegap and phonegap's logs made it look like it was something else. A real PITA.
The fbml below generates an invite form using a multi-friend-selector. Everything works, except the Skip button. No matter what url I place in the action attribute, the action in the rendered form is always blank. This of course causes the Skip button to 404.
<div class="invite">
<fb:serverFbml width="626">
<script type="text/fbml">
<fb:request-form
action="default.asp"
target="_top"
method="POST"
invite="true"
type="My Application"
content="<fb:req-choice url='facebook.com/somepage' label='Authorize my Application'/>">
<fb:multi-friend-selector showborder="true" email_invite="false" cols="4" rows="1" actiontext="Invite your friends to use My Application!">
</fb:multi-friend-selector>
</fb:request-form>
</script>
</fb:serverFbml>
</div>
Edit: On closer inspection, it looks like the 404 it goes to is http://www.facebook.com/plugins/serverfbml.php?. Found this as the only 404 response when tracking in Fiddler.
had the same problem and it was driving me crazy but i managed to fix it.
Try this : <fb:req-choice url='facebook.com/somepage' '
just add another ' right after that, make sure you use space between them. It's funny how I spent 2 hours trying to figure that out. If you wish I'll just copy and paste the whole code. Hope this helps, I'm pretty sure it will since I had the exact same issue. Cheers.
I had the same issue!!!
The fix was the following in my case:
action="http://YOURDOMAINNAME/APP/welcome.htm?${query_string}"
YOURDOMAINNAME must be the same as in your Canvas URL!
Update
Official response from Facebook on my bug report; they've closed it. Only took five months :).
Thanks for the report.
As we are in the process of
deprecating FBML/FBJS, we will not be
adding additional features or fixing
current bugs. If you are creating an
application on facebook.com, please
implement your application using our
supported APIs, SDKs and Social
Plugins. Using these you can embed
many of the same social features
available in FBML.
Please see more at our roadmap:
http://developers.facebook.com/roadmap
Hey guys, I have developed a small site that i would like to embed into a tab on a facebook page.
Previously I used this code to load in an iframe, it worked great:
<a onClick="outside_location.setInnerFBML(link_1);" style="cursor: pointer;">Link 1</a> | <a class="red" onClick="outside_location.setInnerFBML(link_2);" style="cursor: pointer;">Link 2</a>
<div id="outside_location"></div>
<fb:js-string var="link_1"><fb:iframe width="760" height="1280" frameborder='0' src='http://www.WebWhispers.in' /></fb:js-string>
<fb:js-string var="link_2"><fb:iframe width="760" height="1280" frameborder='0' src='http://google.com/' /></fb:js-string>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
var outside_location = d
document.getElementById('outside_location');
</script>
However, it has stopped working. I dont think facebook allows iframe inside of pages, only applications.
How can I load this page in without learning FBML? The site uses Jquery so I cant use FBML anyway.
I know applications can use iFrames, can I make it an application and then embed the application into a page tab somehow?
No. Tab pages can not contain iFrames. They must be written using FBML and FBJS.
One reason for this is that Facebook does not want to enable Tab pages to detect who looks at them. All requests (including images) on tab pages are proxied through Facebook for this reason. If iframes were allowed then the application would be able to detect who looked at it, which would present a privacy issue for Facebook users.
This is either a policy change by Facebook or, more likely, a bug. I say it's unlikely to be a policy change as it throws a script error, whereas a policy change would more likely strip the code out before it's rendered.
There's a bug report you can add votes to and follow here.