Comments for Vestor Logic

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webguru — Fri, 25 May 2012 07:44:00 +0000

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Comment on Facebook: Convert your Static FMBL to iFrame – It’s not as painful as you think! by Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:34:00 +0000

Thanks Jessica

Comment on Facebook: Convert your Static FMBL to iFrame – It’s not as painful as you think! by Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:56:00 +0000

Actually, only “non fans” see the “default landing page”. Once someone “Likes” your page, they will always land on your wall. Facebook needs to change this.

Comment on Facebook: Convert your Static FMBL to iFrame – It’s not as painful as you think! by Jessica Ziegler

Jessica Ziegler — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:41:00 +0000

Submitted on 2011/03/10 at 5:40 pm | In reply to Anonymous.

As the admin to the page you personally will always see the wall as the landing page (which is super fun for testing!), but others will see the app if you select it in your settings..

On your FB fan page go to edit page>manage permissions>select your app name as the default landing tab.

Comment on Facebook: Convert your Static FMBL to iFrame – It’s not as painful as you think! by Jessica Ziegler

Jessica Ziegler — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:40:30 +0000

As the admin to the page you personally will always see the wall as the landing page (which is super fun for testing!), but others will see the app if you select it in your settings..

On your FB fan page go to edit page>manage permissions>select your app name as the default landing tab.

Comment on Facebook: Convert your Static FMBL to iFrame – It’s not as painful as you think! by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:43:00 +0000

Great post

How did you turn your app page into your FB “home page”?

For example, my default home page is the wall – I simply cannot figure our how to change this…

Comment on Facebook: Convert your Static FMBL to iFrame – It’s not as painful as you think! by Jessica Ziegler

Jessica Ziegler — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:23:00 +0000

Very nice, thanks!

I tried the top.location.href, which does redirect to the facebook canvas, BUT then the iframe tries to load over and over. I’m going to have to hunt around for a trick!

Comment on Facebook: Convert your Static FMBL to iFrame – It’s not as painful as you think! by Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:13:00 +0000

Well, after several hours of banging my head on my keyboard (a normal activity while fb programming), this is what I’ve come up with…

In order to get permission from a user (to do things like get a friends list, post on the their wall, etc), you need to redirect the user to the Request for Permissions page (“getLoginUrl()” in PHP). When you do this, you also tell Facebook what page the user should return to after accepting. Unfortunately fb won’t take the tab’s URL (because that URL isn’t ‘owned by the app’), so you need to give it your canvas URL. BUT, on the Canvas, you can redirect the user back to the tab URL. BTW Jessica, for your app’s canvas page, you could put a line of js (top.location.href) to redirect users to your Welcome tab.

Anyhow, the above is kind of hacky, but it seems to work. Also, Facebook might not like this because I don’t think there’s a way for a user to “remove an app” without being able to land on the app canvas page.

If you want to check out my test, click the the “test” tab/link on the left side of this page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Label-Interactive/131941363541204

Comment on Facebook: Convert your Static FMBL to iFrame – It’s not as painful as you think! by Jessica Ziegler

Jessica Ziegler — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:47:00 +0000

Thanks! I think that any user auths that have worked previously with iFrames will continue to work the same way, iFrames have been around for quite some time, there should be good documentation out there (I hope!)

I agree, that canvas page is messy! Also some of the language should change in the process; like mentions of tabs.The “tabs” as they exist now are totally disappearing.

Comment on Facebook: Convert your Static FMBL to iFrame – It’s not as painful as you think! by Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:29:00 +0000

This is great info, thanks Jessica! I wasn’t aware that Facebook now allows iFrames in tabs (let alone will require it!). I write many Flash apps in tabs which, because of FBML, were limited (they weren’t allow to run javascript, contact other servers, etc.). Any idea how apps that require user authorization will work (for example, an app that needs the user’s list of friends) ? Time to test it out..

BTW – It seems a little messy to still have a Canvas URL hanging around which you’ll never use if you’re only creating a tab. It could confuse people if they should ever happen to find it: http://apps.facebook.com/vestorlogic/