I have just implemented FB login and status updates in my app following the sample app in the IOS SDK.
I know it is common practice to have a like button for a page but is it also true for an app?
I mean is it possible to have a like button in my app that when tapped makes an entry on my FB page stating I like the app?
I can't seem to track the like feature down in the docs :-(
Thanks
basically you can add UIWebView and put your html tags inside it
check this and this sample they may help you
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I have an issue with the FB like button.
In a web view inside our iOS and Android apps, when the FB like button is pressed and you are not logged in, instead of displaying a login modal as it has previously it just disappears.
This happens for the iframe and XFBML versions.
I can also reproduce this when clicking the like button in the mobile browser when viewing https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/.
I've logged this with FB Dev but thought I'd try here as well.
I had the same problem....
You have to use this tool: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
Enter the url you want to add like button, this will clear facebook cache,
and the like button will work properly.
It's possible a like button is blocked if the page it links to has a restriction. This article has some more information about this problem: Ttp://www.andreavahl.com/facebook/why-your-facebook-like-box-is-not-showing-up.php
This is my app page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/When-Biebs-Attack/402350233140999
As you can see, it's an actual "App Page", created from my app control panel. So you would assume it would be linked with the app.
Now here is the (only) site that uses the App ID for a like button: http://cosmati.net/biebsattack/
Not only is the discrepancy weird, but as soon as I added the like button to the page it had 22 likes. I have double checked my App ID in my code. It does line up with my app control panel. I tried both the HTML5 and the XFBML methods.
okay, I don't know why it's doing what it's doing, but I figured out you can link them directly by adding an href tag to the like button and pointing it to the url of your facebook page. For instance, my like button now looks like this:
<fb:like href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/When-Biebs-Attack/402350233140999" send="false" width="450" show_faces="true" font="arial"></fb:like>
And now when I visit my site (http://cosmati.net/biebsattack/), not only do I only see 1 like (mine), but I see links to administer my page and view insights. Kind of neat. Not sure why it doesn't do this by default when I use the App ID, but whatever.
Has anyone succeeded embedding Facebook Like button in metro app page? I tried both flavors HTML5 and iframe and none of them seem to be working fully.
What works:
Both flavors can render the not-logged-in version of Like button with total like count correctly.
What does not work:
Clicking on “Like” button takes user to metro IE for sign-in but its unable to return to the metro app page. User stays in metro IE blank page and even if you forcefully come back to metro app and restart, it still does not recognize that you are logged in to facebook.
Has anyone successfully able to add fully functional like button in metro app? Any pointers on what else to try?
No you can't. You can't integrate js from the outside like you would do on a normal webpage.
Instead you can login to Facebook from a Windows 8 application using OAuth. Once you have a valid access token you can perform any action using Facebook's Graph API, but liking a page is not supported (though the documentation is misleading).
Take a look at the Web Authentication sample SDK app.
I just created a Facebook page for my blog and am working on adding the like button. I suppose my first question is, is there already a like button added to a Facebook fan page itself and the code for the like button is so you can create a like button on a whole different page, like my Blogspot blog page? Since I'm the admin I'm not sure if I'm seeing whatever else is. If not, I'd like to add a like button to my Facebook page for people to like, but for the life of my cannot figure out where to paste the code. I know it says behind the tag, but that doesn't mean anything to me. Please help.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
On the Facebook page is a like button of course already integrated, on that page you can get code for your Blog or website.
Specifically, you're looking for this plugin:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
Specify the URL you want the like button to like, whether that be your blog post or your facebook page.
You are looking for the facebook Like Box.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/
I´m building a website to post my own videos using JW Player running my own ads as overlay.
www.planetsnowmobile.com
All my videos will be
Instead of register my own users, having my own forum etc etc I want to use facebook to interact with my visitors:
Individual discussions/comments on individual films instead of my own comment/forum-function
facebook-like-button for individual films (so induvidual like buttons for individual films)
Share induvidual films
Grab location from every unique visitor
Where do I start?
Do I need to create an application or should I use a Facebook "page"?
Maybe both?
I see that i can add an application to a "page" but what does that really do? How do I use that?
What would be the best way for me to do this?
I already have a Facebook "page" for my website and I just created an App as well.
Which one should I use?
Do I need both?
What is the difference?
I know that I can create a like button for a website address on http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
But can I monitor that like button from example an application if I can connect them somehow?
Is that something I want to do?
My Facebook-page already have a user-base where my Facebook-application does not.. is my best option to delete my "page" and start all over with my "application"?
App is their encompassing term for any application that uses their API, this could be on Facebook or on your own personal website - these require an API key to make authenticated calls for users. Pages are FB's own in-Facebook content that users have created, like page for a business located at facebook.com/mybusiness. It sounds like you already have a website and want to add Facebook functionality to it, so you don't want to make another Page. You may not even need to create an App. Things like comment boxes and like buttons can be dropped in as stand-alone copy-and-paste widgets. You can track the like button by enabling FB insights for your website.
So like you noticed you can add a like button to your page using the social plugin from http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ - similar to the like button you can add comment boxes with the plugin at http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments/
You can track the results from these plugins by adding your website to Facebook's analytics (Insights) at http://www.facebook.com/insights/
Most of these things are powered by the opengraph metadata in the headers of your website's pages. You can read up on what tags FB uses here http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/
Everything at http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/ can be used without an application or page ID, and is very good about being responsive to the page they are hosted on: you can add a like button to your video view template without a defined URL in the like button's parameters, and it will automatically direct any likes to the url of the currently viewed video.
You could also direct a like button to point to your existing FB Page, in which case any likes collected from it would be added to the Page's total. Most companies that have a home-page like button do this, so their likes all accumulate to a single total for their business.
Hope that helps.