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Contents 1 New News 2 Multiple thumbnails 3 sharer.php and META / LINK tags not working 4 Ramses 5 Template deleted 6 Template for Example Return JSON 7 url encode bug 8 Added Return JSON to template 9 Fbml.refreshImgSrc deprecation 10 Cookies_(FQL) 11 .js.php or just .js? 12 another issue 13 screenshots for Facebook Styles 14 Pages.getInfo FQL Equivalent 15 fbPages and API calls 16 Info Tab FBML in Smileys i18n demo 17 formating attachments 18 iweb '09 19 DesignerNotes 20 smiley doesnt show fbml 21 #facebook 22 Can some1 help me how to do this for get poker chips? 23 Deprecated extended permissions in Wiki 24 Fan Box Widget

[edit] New News

Pete, kudos on the work with the new news on the feed. Things seem to be getting more organized and you seem to be part of the reason why. Nice work, dude. ~Rhys -- (pdameasap 19:28, 17 November 2009 (PST))

Thanks, Rhys. We're always trying to improve our communications with the community, and I'm glad you think it's getting better. Pete -- 563683308 07:23, 18 November 2009 (PST)

[edit] Multiple thumbnails

Hi, I'm not a contributor to this wiki, but I was glad to find it eventually. By advance, sorry for my english mistakes, I'm french... I read one of your remarks on the thread dedicated to Facebook Share Button, and it was about the same problem I encounter : I would like to add manually multiple thumbnails to the post on one's Facebook Wall. What I do currently (but it doesn't work) is putting three links [img_src] with random images in my header (only one random thumbnail appears in the post). I read that if you dont put such a link, Facebook randomly selects one of the images on your page, but there are plenty of them, and I would like to control which of them appear on my message :S Is there any solution you would suggest? --525861178 12:14, 13 August 2009 (PDT)

[edit] sharer.php and META / LINK tags not working

Hi Pete,

I'm noting the same problem. If you filed a bug on this, please send me its url so I can "me too" it. speno@macpeno.com is my address. Thanks!

[edit] Ramses

Hi Pete,

Thanks for the feedback. Yea, you're right.

Regards, Ramses

[edit] Template deleted

Hi Pete,

I think you deleted my template box-personal-info. Any special reason?

Regards, Ramses

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Hey, don't worry about the templates for now.

The wiki syntax is kinda difficult to get into and those templates are really crazy. I'm still working on fixing it up.

[edit] Template for Example Return JSON

Just felt like documenting the return JSON, but noticed there aren't any templates for it in the API wiki pages.

[edit] url encode bug

Hey there, I just edited Users.setStatus (diff) and had to enter %3D in place of the = in the url. AFAICT this is a bug in Template:FBAPI Documentation. Not really sure how to fix it, but we shouldn't have to urlencode certain characters ourselves. --66200220 14:14, 24 November 2007 (PST)

Heya, we're still working on the templates here, but mediawiki seems to take exception to using = inline, unless it's wrapped in <nowiki> tags, which is fine until you want to have a live URL.

[edit] Added Return JSON to template

Thanks for the request. I added a section for Example Return JSON to the template. Use the following in API articles:

| example1_json=[example1_json]

where [example1_json] is the sample code you want to add.

[edit] Fbml.refreshImgSrc deprecation

You suggested in the discussion refreshing the cached image url with a new random variable periodically (within a GET parameter) .. can you please specify the period after which the cached image expires since i will need to refresh the swfphoto for each user individually which is hectic and very time consuming .. i dont wanna do this frequently.

[edit] Cookies_(FQL)

Cookies_(FQL) currently says:

"The FQL cookies table. Query this table to return information about a photo tag."

IE it's first paragraph is a copy from Photo_tag_(FQL).

1061012727 10:52, 2 May 2008 (PDT)

[edit] .js.php or just .js?

Hey Pete,

You changed .js to .js.php in Creating a Popup Dialog in an IFrame (diff) but the .js.php URL seems to be a 404 right now, while the URL with .php removed seems OK. Is the wiki incorrect or is this a bug? --Phillip Pearson 18:35, 20 July 2008 (PDT)

[edit] another issue

Thanks, the .js.php URL now loads. However it tries to load http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/08072021/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureMap.js.php , which is empty, so nothing loads. I can load it from http://www.new.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureMap.js.php but I still get errors whenever I use any of the 0.4 features. Is there a working example for Creating a Popup Dialog in an IFrame somewhere?

This is a known issue that was supposed to have been fixed last night. I told the engineer about it, so hopefully it'll get fixed soon. I'll try to get a good working example up here soon. Sorry. -- Pete

[edit] screenshots for Facebook Styles

Hello,

I have recently updated Facebook Styles article. Can you please upload screenshots for an article. Its useless without them.

--1112078217 alvin 09:41, 20 September 2008 (PDT)

Thanks! --1112078217 alvin 12:40, 22 September 2008 (PDT)

Here it is: Blockquotes image --alvin 06:31, 30 September 2008 (PDT)

[edit] Pages.getInfo FQL Equivalent

Thanks for fixing the Pages.getInfo FQL Equivalent!. On the talk page I mentioned that it might be good to include the FQL query structure statement to help explain what the FQL Equivalent is doing. I also think that the FQL Equivalent should be written to return the same information the API call returns; That way the FQL Equivalent is a true Equivalent. Thanks again for the help. (on another side note the other pages.isfan, pages.isadmin, and pages.isAppAdded are also in need of FQL Equivalents that match the API example return XML)1181029451 15:47, 28 October 2008 (PDT)

No Problem, I'll tag what I can, Where I didn't find an FQL equivalent I have suggested one. Check the talk pages for the pages.x API calls for some FQL suggestions. 1181029451 07:01, 31 October 2008 (PDT)

[edit] fbPages and API calls

Thanks Pete, I hope the Bug with the Photo uploads not working with the Pages will be fixed soon or a work around will be implemented. I look forward to learning which API call do work with fbPages or if the page_id can be substituted for the uid. 1181029451 06:25, 11 November 2008 (PST)

[edit] Info Tab FBML in Smileys i18n demo

Pete,

In July last year you posted that the Smileys application had been modified to demonstrate internationalisation. The latest SVN version certainly does this, but in doing so it makes calls with FBML in to profile.setInfo. The New Design Application Info Sections article also suggests that this should be possible, however testing the app, none of the FBML passed to profile.setInfo is parsed. Was this functionality ever actually implemented? Was the app ever tested? Is this a Facebook bug?

Cheers, Will 07:00, 31 March 2009 (PDT)

Bump! Are you still repsonsible for the i18n version of the Smileys app? Will 18:52, 19 April 2009 (PDT)

No problem. For the record, here's the bug. Cheers, Will 16:29, 22 April 2009 (PDT)

[edit] formating attachments

hey there, can u help me out here?

im trying to automatically post something on my fan page, but it doesnt work as id like it to :( I cant use the publishUserAction, because that wont post to the fan page .. but the stream.publish action cant be formated .. at least i didnt find how yet.

Also fb.stream.publish( 'test', attachment, None, fanpage_id) will post to the fan page, BUT as the admin of the fan page and not 'the fan page user itself' .. so the posting appears to be from some fan and wont be visible to other fan who are not my friends.

When i try to use that call: fb.stream.publish( 'test', attachment, None, fanpage_id, fanpage_id) i get the following error: Error 200: Posts to a page cannot also include a target_id...

And when i try to ommit the target_id like this: fb.stream.publish( , attachment, None, None, fb_uid) i get a Error 200: Permissions error

so how am i supposed to post to my fan page? and how (if at all) can i format the posting?

cheers kakulukia

[edit] iweb '09

I can't seem to use the fan box html code with iweb '09. Nothing comes up. Help!

[edit] DesignerNotes

Thanks for the corrections on the page. I'll be adding more details to the page, I would appreciate your feedback.

[edit] smiley doesnt show fbml

Hey there,

I can't get your sample app Smiley to display the FBML on the canvas page. It just shows the HTML text. Here is a link to my application and to the page that is hosting it:

• http://apps.facebook.com/smiletesting
• http://sharonfeingold.com/smiley/

Thanks in advance. --6858277 21:19, 9 September 2009 (PDT)

I'm not I understand what you mean here. The FBML gets converted to HTML. So when I auth'd your Smiley, on the home page, I see the Add to Profile and Add to Info buttons, which are both rendered by the fb:add-section-button FBML tag. Can you give me a specific example of what's not rendering? Thanks!

Solution: in the application settings, under "canvas" subsection, choose "FBML" rather than "IFrame" and it should do the trick

cheers, Solo

[edit] #facebook

Hi Pete! Are you on IRC? What nickname are you using there? You find me via irc://irc.freenode.net/gangleri,isnick . Best regards
לערי ריינהארט  ^{Goylem גולם  wiki} 04:41, 11 September 2009 (PDT)

Not really, just internally here at Facebook. It's been so long, I'm not even sure I remember my real world IRC credentials and would likely have to create a new account. If you want, you can send me a message on my Facebook account: facebook.com/pete. Thanks!

IRC doesn't need account creation. 763967318 17:51, 14 September 2009 (PDT)

Thanks for the answer Pete! How should I contact you at http://www.facebook.com/pete without the « Send Pete a Message » link? Maybe you message me first at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=634189704 . Thanks in advance! Best regards
« לערי ריינהארט » at facebook  ^{this wiki}  « Goylem גולם » at facebook  ^{this wiki} 15:57, 11 September 2009 (PDT)

Sorry, I turned that off because whenever I write on the Devloper blog, I get a lot of unsolicited messages. I turned it back on so that you can message me directly now. Pete

Done! Thanks!
« לערי ריינהארט » at facebook  ^{this wiki}  « Goylem גולם » at facebook  ^{this wiki} 18:29, 14 September 2009 (PDT)

I hope you received the messages. When can I expect some answers? Best regards

« לערי ריינהארט » at facebook  ^{this wiki}  « Goylem גולם » at facebook  ^{this wiki} 07:37, 21 September 2009 (PDT)

Yes, I received your messages and will attend to them when I can. Pete

[edit] Can some1 help me how to do this for get poker chips?

help me plzz

[edit] Deprecated extended permissions in Wiki

Hi Pete!

You removed two entries from extended permissions table I added last week [1] saying they were deprecated long time ago. I believe they still should be documented since Facebook actually *is* sending them to unsuspecting applications :) Are you OK with bringing them back to the Wiki, possibly in special 'Deprecated' section?

Cheers, Max

[1] http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php?title=Extended_permissions&oldid=35478

[edit] Fan Box Widget

Hi Pete, I wrote a message on the fan box widget discussion page a while back, and you responded, but after my response to that, I'm not sure if you saw it. I'm trying to integrate the Facebook Fan Box, the code is at the bottom of this page: http://redwall.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js I'm implementing it here: http://redwall.wikia.com/wiki/Sandbox However this is only working in Firefox for some reason, and not IE8 or Chrome (evidenced here: http://browsershots.org/http://redwall.wikia.com/wiki/Sandbox ) Advice would be helpful. -- 584731031 20:34, 21 October 2009 (PDT)