Plugin Contributor
B.
(@bandonrandon)
Sounds like it’s having trouble switching to FBML for the invite section. What’s you’re app url? Is your invite friend url somthing like “http://apps.facebook.com/APPNAME/index.php?is_invite=true&fb_force_mode=fbml”?
The app requires a login?
Not sure how WPBook will work with any blog that requires a login.
I suspect that for some reason the invite link is failing because that link can’t be reached by Facebook.
Or it may be the extra “/” between gpnetworks and index.php in your invite link, which is usually caused by an extra trailing slash on your application name in your wpbook settings.
I think its the login issue – I removed the extra slash and no joy.
Will have to live without the invite friends link in the app
shame cause its loses some its viral nature without this
thanks v much
Joe
So, the call to the invite throws an error and this produces the extra body tag error ?
But I am already logged in to the app to make this invite ?
There might be a workaround for this
my canvas URL is this:
http://www.gpnetworks.co.uk/app/index.php?signed_request=1
Can I use this appended variable in the invite call ?
joe
Plugin Contributor
B.
(@bandonrandon)
My guess it’s not actually adding a body tag. the fb_force_mode=fbml is telling Facebook to load your app in Facebook Markup Language (FBML) which is getting angry when seeing the body tag from the login from.
But I am already logged in to the app to make this invite ?
Are you saying that if the user is logged in to your site the invite link works? If so you might hack the invite link (see theme/index.php) to redirect to the login if the user isn’t logged in else show the invite link. (or just hide the invite link unless they are logged in)
no, i’m saying a user doe snot see the invite link unless they are logged in to the app
so why would the invite link redirect to a login form ?
joe
I don’t have any way to test this without creating an account in your app, which I’ve really no interest in doing. Do you have a test login of some kind?
The “invite friends” link should get translated into this call to your server:
http://www.gpnetworks.co.uk/app/index.php?signed_request=1&is_invite=true&fb_force_mode=fbml
The “signed_request” bit triggers the WPBook plugin (lets us know we’re inside FB), the is_invite bit tells WPBook to load the invite form, and the fb_force_mode bit tells FB this is an FBML page inside an app that is otherwise iFrame based.
I think the problem is that to draw and FBML page, Facebook itself is interacting with your blog – not the logged in user’s browser, but Facebook’s HTTP agent, which has no account on your site.
In short, I don’t think the current invite page will work for blogs requiring a login.
That said, Facebook is deprecating the FBML method and now encourages use of the Requests Dialog – http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/requests/ – so we may soon revisit the whole flow and that might work better for your use case.
Looks like we might be able to use
http://www.facebook.com/multi_friend_selector.php?
which we can pass in a bunch of variables (api_key, content, type, action, actiontext, and sig) and let FB draw the invite page itself.
But this will take some time and testing – so not coming anytime too soon.
I can wait for a total solution. What I have right now is a huge bit of progress from where I was.
Will donate too
Rgds
joe
