I have a facebook application that is published at facebook platform and i used facebook API to invite friends and i have succeeded in creating invitation form but the problem is that when u invite friend and send invitation and the invitation request sent to the user and the user accept it this friend appears again in the friend list that can be invited again
For example :
i have friend in my friend list named X and when i send invitation to him the invitation is sent and and X accept the invitation and when i try to send invitation again the friend X appears again in the list that i can select from to send invitation this means that may i send an invitation to this user (X) and he is already playing the game i need to know how to fix this problem so friends appear in the friend list (for invitation )only friends that not use the application.
My application at the following link
My Game application
visit it and see the problem exactly after inviting friends they will appear again is this normal in any game application?
thanks in advance for any reply
In FBML if you are using the friend-selector you can pass it an array exclude_ids. If you use the api to find the users' friends who are already using your app, you can exclude them this way.
This also works in the multi-friend-selector which sits inside an fb:request-form tag.
EDIT: the array of users to exclude can be obtained through the api call Friends.getAppUsers.
Following example uses the .NET Facebook Developer Toolkit. (mainly because that's how I've done it before!)
CODE BEHIND:
public string CURRENT_USER_FRIENDS = "";
//Call this function on pageload or where you like
private void PopulateFriendsData()
{
//exclude friends who already have the app from the inviter
string UsersToExclude = string.Empty;
IList<long> AppUserFriends = this.Master.API.friends.getAppUsers();
foreach (long L in AppUserFriends)
{
UsersToExclude += L.ToString() + ",";
}
CURRENT_USER_FRIENDS = UsersToExclude.TrimEnd(',');
}
PAGE:
<fb:multi-friend-selector
actiontext="Select the friends you want to invite"
rows="3"
exclude_ids="<%=CURRENT_USER_FRIENDS%>"/>
Related
I'm using the following Javascript for my users to send requests to "invitable friends" from my Facebook app:
FB.ui({
method: 'apprequests',
message: 'Come play with me etc.',
to: str_ids
},
requestCallback
);
function requestCallback(response){
if(response){
console.log(response);
}
else{
//show error to user
}
}
Where str_ids is a string containing the IDs returned by the invitable friends API. This all works fine.
When I invite a single user, let's say his Facebook ID is 1593894704165626, I get the following response:
request
"1399842883640198"
to
["1593894704165626"]
So here I have a unique request ID and the invited person's Facebook ID. I can now store this data in my database along with the inviter's ID, so I have all the necessary info.
However, now I want to reward the inviter after the invitee accepts the invitation and I'm running into a problem.
If user A and user B both invited user C, then when user C joins the game, how do I know whether to reward A or B?
I see from this question that it's possible to pass another parameter along with the invitation, which should help identify the inviter:
Facebook tracking who Invited whom
The first answer here suggests that you can pass such a custom parameter, but doesn't say how. Facebook's convoluted documentation is driving me insane.
Another thing - even if I send that additional parameter, I think there's a problem - for new users the app redirects to the Facebook page that checks whether they want to allow access to the app, and by the time they're redirected back to the app, the additional parameter will be lost.
Is there any solution to this?
The functionality that I need is to show a list of Facebook friends to the user on the website page with custom design, where the user can select some of them and send invites.
In API v2.0 it's possible to get a list of friends this way:
FB.api('/me/taggable_friends', function (response) {
...
});
But it doesn't return real users' ID that I need for invites with the next function call:
FB.ui({
method: 'apprequests',
message: invite_text,
to: 'user_id_1, user_id_2'
}, function (response) {
...
}
);
How can I get these real IDs?
Or how to resolve this functionality in another way? Because all the answers that I found were connected with games that don't fit me.
I need a full list of friends. Not just that already use my website (analog of the invitable_friends in-game section).
You are not allowed to use taggable_friends for inviting them, obviously it is for TAGGING friends and you only get a tagging token.
There is invitable_friends, but:
The invitable_friends API is only available for games that have a Facebook Canvas app implementation using version 2.0 of the Graph API.
(https://developers.facebook.com/docs/games/invitable-friends/v2.1)
I am afraid what you want to achieve is not possible. The proper way to invite friends to your website is to use the Send Dialog: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/send-dialog
You can include one User ID in the "to" parameter. Of course it must be a User who authorized your App too, you can get those with /me/friends. Or better: Just open the Dialog and let the User select on his own.
I'm trying to send an apprequest from my Windows Phone 7.5 application to a Facebook friend to invite that friend to play a gameround.
According to Facebooks official documentation, a request should be performed via dialogs:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/requests/
Unfortunately I cannot get this to work/show on Windows Phone.
Is there another way to send an apprequest to a known facebook user (I only need to send it to one user)?
I have tested to do it by invoking the following code:
FacebookClient fb = new FacebookClient(_appAccessTooken);
var arguments = new Dictionary<string, object>();
arguments["appId"] = Consts.FaceBookAppID;
arguments["title"] = "Play a gameround!";
arguments["message"] = "Would you like to play with me?";
fb.PostAsync("/user-id/apprequests", arguments);
This works, but:
1) The user will not get a proper notification, it will only be visible from the Applicationcenter notices.
2) The request will be sent from the application name, not from me (the user)
Does anybody know how to get this working?
II'm using the Facebook SDK for .NET (http://facebooksdk.net/)
Thanks in advance.
I am developing an ASP.NET application. I implemented Facebook JavaScript API in my application, for connect with Facebook and get FB friend list of user. I had done this successfully.
Now, I want to count how many friends are invited by user. Is it possible with facebook API. User can select multiple friends and i want to count how many friends selected and invited by user, Invited friends Id is bonus if We can get.
Please don't forget that facebook changed its Oauth settings for security reasons.
I'm also trying to get ids values after Send Invitation button clicked and page post back to
if (Request.Form["ids"] != null)
{
span1.InnerHtml = "ids";
//put success code here..
}
else
{
span1.InnerHtml = "oops no id";
}
if (Page.PreviousPage != null)
{
span1.InnerHtml = "ids";
//put success code here..
}
else
{
span1.InnerHtml = "oops no id";
}
but in this case program control always goes to else condition it means after page is post back form return null value.
Is there any way to get ids of invited friends.
Thanks.
If you using Facebook Requests to send invites (you really should, it's intended for this), the only way to get invited friends is via Facebook Requests Dialog callback:
FB.ui({method: 'apprequests', message: 'Whoa!'}, callback);
function callback(response){
// response.to now contain array of invited users ids
console.log('Invited friends ids', response.to);
if (response.request) {
console.log('Efficient Request id', response.request);
} else {
console.log('Requests Ids', response.request_ids);
}
}
There is no way to get request sent by user via Graph API or FQL, you only can get requests received by user. You may save all requests sent by your users and rely on this data if you need aggregated count of invitation sent...
Ok finally I resolve this issue and get invited friends ids..
As we know we use javascript sdk for FB connect so my solution is in concern of Java script:
Just make on change in your .js file where you put your facebook connect javascript code. Use Get or Request Method instead of Post Method in fb:request-form tag.
<script type="text/javascript>
var fbhtml = "<fb:serverFbml width=\"" + width_of_invitation_div + "\">
<script type=\"text/fbml\"><fb:fbml><fb:request-form action=" + window.location + " method="REQUEST" invite="true" type="" + type_of_fb_request_form + "" hold=" /><br mode="></fb:request-form></fb:fbml></script></fb:serverfbml>"
</script>
After invitation send to users selected friends you get ids[] in url.
you can get these ids through query string and split ids by comma(,) and store in array.
Hope this will help for other devs.
I'm developing a website with the following requirement:
Users may invite their facebook friends to visit the website
Invited friends receive a personalized URL that points back to the website (either a message, notification, request...doesn't matter)
Example flow:
1. John visits http://www.mysite.com
2. John clicks the Facebook connect button and logs in with his facebook credentials
3. John clicks 'invite friends' button. The friend selector dialog appears
4. John selects Mary and submits the invitation/request/message
5. Mary receives a link like: http://www.mysite.com?name=Mary
6. Mary clicks the link from within facebook and is redirected to the URL above
7. My site displays: "Hello Mary!", taking the name from the URL parameter
I already managed to make steps 1-4.
I'm asking about step 5. Is that possible at all? I know I can get the facebook IDs of the people selected in the multi-friend selector, and that I can make a FBQL query to retrieve the names of the people selected, but how to customize the URL sent?
Cheers,
Nacho
Well, if the user will be sending invitations for a bulk of friends then these invitations won't be "invitee unique" (As mentioned by #Jimmy). BUT you can still capture the unique "friend id" and (I suppose) name from the request itself!
What you need to do is the following:
When a friend clicks on the invitation, he/she will get redirected to the canvas page (or the bookmark page if it has been sit).
Along with the redirection you'll receive the invitation number (request id) here you can read this request and extract the "To" field from it and then redirect the friend to your website.
Something like:
<?php
if( isset($_REQUEST['request_ids']) ) {
// Requesting an application token
$APPLICATION_ID = "APP_D";
$APPLICATION_SECRET = "APP_SECRET";
$token_url = "https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?" .
"client_id=" . $APPLICATION_ID .
"&client_secret=" . $APPLICATION_SECRET .
"&grant_type=client_credentials";
$app_token = file_get_contents($token_url);
// You may have more than one request, so it's better to loop
$requests = explode(',',$_REQUEST['request_ids']);
foreach($requests as $request_id) {
// Get the request details using Graph API
$request_content = json_decode(file_get_contents("https://graph.facebook.com/$request_id?$app_token"), TRUE);
// An example of how to get info from the previous call
$to_name = $request_content['to']['name'];
// When all is done, delete the requests because Facebook will not do it for you!
$deleted = file_get_contents("https://graph.facebook.com/$request_id?$app_token&method=delete"); // Should return true on success
echo "<script>top.location.href='http://www.mysite.com?name=" . urlencode($to_name) . "'</script>";
}
}
?>
For more read the following:
Facebook Documentation
How To: Handle Application Requests Using The Facebook Graph API
When the referred user lands on your site, you either need to know their Facebook User ID or all the information you plan to show them. It's going to be easier and more extensible to use the User ID, and to get that you'll need to get that user to install your app before you can identify them, look up their name, and say "Hello Mary!"
What I'd do here is let the referring user share a link customized for him. So if I'm A, and I'm sharing with my friends, my link would look like http://www.somedomain.com/?ref=A. I share this, my friend B clicks the link. When B gets to the install screen, he installs, and now we know B's name, and since we have the ref parameter, we know he clicked my link. (This is how Groupon and Dropbox handle referral links.)
And to answer your question more clearly, no, invite links need to be the same for each invitation you send using the multi-friend selector, so per-invitee links are not an option.