Question

I am migrating my Facebook canvas application to using the new PHP SDK. However, I am having a problem getting the JavaScript SDK to work too.

I’m wanting to take advantage of methods such as stream.publish in the JavaScript SDK. Unfortunately I’ve not been able to get anything to work thus far. I have the following in the header of my application’s index.php file:

<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_GB/all.js"></script>
<script>
    FB.init({appId: *);
    FB.ui({
        method: 'stream.publish',
        message: 'Check out this great app!'
    });
</script>

My application ID has been removed for obvious reasons.

Where I’d expect the above to give the user a prompt to publish a message to their stream, it’s not. Can I even use the new JavaScript SDK in Facebook canvas applications? Or is it reserved for iFrame applications and utilizing Facebook Connect on websites only?

Answer 1

I’ve solved it using the following:

<?php
$attachment = array(
    'name' => 'Attachment name here',
    'href' => 'Attachment URL here',
    'media' => array(array(
        'type' => 'image',
        'src'  => 'Image URL here',
        'href' => 'Link URL here',
    )),
    'caption' => 'Caption here',
);
$action_links = array(array(
    'text' => 'Action link text',
    'href' => 'Action link href',
));
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var message = "Your status update here...";
var attachment = <?php echo json_encode($attachment); ?>;
var action_links = <?php echo json_encode($action_links); ?>;
Facebook.streamPublish(message, attachment, action_links);
//-->
</script>

Thanks to all that answered.