Integration to Facebook Connect

[Harvey Kane]

Hi All,

Has anyone here successfully done an integration with Facebook Connect?

I'm putting together a quote for someone to add some level of Facebook
integration to their site. The site offers free flash-based educational
courses and it would be nice to have at a minimum a Facebook popup at
the end saying "Post this to your wall: Harvey has just completed bla
bla course on blabla.com and got 7/10" to drive some extra traffic.

I have tinkered with Facebook app development but not yet with Facebook
connect, though it's been on my 'must do' list for some time.

Can anyone offer any general advice for how much time I should set aside
for integrating Facebook into the site? (yeah, I realise this is a
fairly open-ended question).

I'm thinking 1-2 days should be sufficient for a compentent PHP
programmer to add some cool Facebook stuff to the site. Sound about
right or am I way off?

Thanks,

Harvey.

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[Aaron Cooper]

If I am understanding what you want correctly, would the share widget do the
trick?

http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/share.php

10 mins. If that.

Regards
Aaron Cooper

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[Harvey Kane]

Hmm, I thought there was a bit more to it than that, but maybe I'm wrong.

I came across an example of what I'm after on www.livemocha.com the
other day after completing a German language module. I was logged into
Facebook at the time. After I finished the language module, an inline
popup appears automatically with my Facebook photo in there all good to
go. I guess they could have programatically actioned the share button
for me rather than wait for me to click it.

I need to do some more reading of course, but I got the feeling what I
wanted required more than copy-pasting a bit of HTML code. Maybe I'm
wrong and it is that easy.

This is why I hate giving quotes.

Harvey.

[Aaron Cooper]

Just in case you missed it, the preview button on that page is actually
live. I'm logged in and clicking it gave me just a wall dialog with my
profile pic. One click on the share button in that popup publishes a link to
that page on my wall.

The only other method I can think of is using the Stream.Publish API. But
then you'll have a custom app and the user will have to approve it in your
popup prior to any action.

I've never actually utilized FB Connect. I've always assumed it was more of
a global login setup like OpenID.

Aaron

 

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[vincenz2004]

2 hrs to research find out how, and implement