Comments on: Updating profile boxes with a facebook app

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 24 May 2009 23:03:05 +0000

I am so sorry for all of you asking me questions about this topic, because I really don’t have enough time to check out all your code and problems and answer all of you…

I will anser as soon as possible, if still needed.

Thomas

By: jason

jason — Sun, 24 May 2009 15:06:59 +0000

Ack, figured it out! Different question, though: would you happen to have a tutorial or know of one that would allow this to be added to either a profile or a page?

Thanks for the help.

By: jason

jason — Sun, 24 May 2009 04:16:31 +0000

Great help, thanks. I just have one hangup. I can’t get the HTML in fb_box to show up. I get a profile box but it says “no content to display”. Is it that $fb_box isn’t referenced anywhere in the file or is fb_box_handle supposed to render that?

Here’s what I’m using:

require_login();
$facebook->api_client->profile_setFBML($appapikey, $user_id, ‘profile’, NULL, ‘mobile_profile’, ‘profile_main’);

$fb_box = “”;
$fb_box .= “Hello World!”;
$fb_box .= “”;
$fb_box .= “I am “;
$fb_box .= “.”;
$fb_box .= “Nice you’re on my page.”;
$fb_box .= “Some more content in HTML or FBML…”;

$fb_box_handle = ‘pb_’ . $appid . ‘_’ . $user_id;

$facebook->api_client->call_method(‘facebook.profile.setFBML’,
array(
‘api_key’ => $appapikey,
‘v’ => ’1.0′,
‘uid’ => $user_id,
‘profile’ => ”,
‘profile_main’ => ”,
)
);

echo “”;
?>

By: alex

alex — Sat, 16 May 2009 11:35:59 +0000

I presume it is safe to say that for many people the buttons are not working becaues they have not updated to the latest facebook library
get it here:
http://developers.facebook.com/get_started.php
I was using the one that comes with smiley and it does not work with profile boxes.

By: Osku

Osku — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:37:26 +0000

I don’t really get it. You claim you send in the content for you’re profile box, but you really don’t. You merely create you’re content into $fb_box, but the code to be displayed on the profile box only contains the “handle”-code. You never really set the handle. Am I right?

By: Ankit

Ankit — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:38:03 +0000

I want to mention that I’ve used $fbml=fb:ref but it has been replaced with ’0′ in the post & second thing Im using page id instead of userid…so I think you can definately find the problem from all this…

By: Ankit

Ankit — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:28:47 +0000

require_once ‘facebook.php’;

$appapikey = ‘********************************’;
$appsecret = ‘********************************’;

$facebook = new Facebook($appapikey, $appsecret);

$fb_box_handle = ‘pb_’ . ***********(my application id) . ‘_’ . ***********(page id);

$facebook->api_client->call_method(‘facebook.profile.setFBML’,
array(
‘api_key’ => $appapikey,
‘v’ => ’1.0′,
‘uid’ => ***********,
‘profile’ => ”,
‘profile_main’ => ”,
)
);
$fbml = “”;

$facebook->api_client->profile_setFBML($appapikey, ***********(page id again), $fbml, NULL, NULL, ‘profile_main’);
?>

Since I am a neophyte to this I don’t know which code of above is significant & which one is redundant, so I did copy-paste everything you posted with fb:ref addded.It works with static text but not in case of url.Thanks for the quick reply.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:40:15 +0000

Ankit,

did you try the code exactely as I posted? Still not working? Please provide your code.

Thomas

By: Ankit

Ankit — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:24:33 +0000

Hi Thomas…Your code worked perfactly but it was just a static text ‘profile’ in profile box. Can you please give some more to let me know how to display the content from some url. I’ve already used fb:ref but it didn’t work. So can you just show some code with which I can compare mine.

Thanks.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:04:58 +0000

Never mind! I see it clearly on http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Profile.setFBML