Question

I develop small fb app (which will be available on separate domain and through app.facebook.com as well) and I would like to incorporate something like “Invite my friends to this app” button (don’t know exact name for this so I used quotes). How can I do this? I am using fb php sdk and don’t want to use fbml becuase as I saw it is depreciated. MANY THANKS

Answer 1

You can use the Javascript SDK to open the Requests Dialog.

With this dialog the user can select friends to which the requests will be sent.
It’s very easy, and the (basic) code should look something like this:

window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
    FB.init({
        appId: "YOUR_APP_ID",
        status: true,
        cookie: true
    });

    // Additional initialization code here
};

// Load the SDK Asynchronously
(function(d){
    var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk', ref = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
    if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
    js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;
    js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js";
    ref.parentNode.insertBefore(js, ref);
}(document));

function invite() {
    FB.ui({
        method: "apprequests",
        message: "Check out my great app"
    }, inviteCallback);
}

function inviteCallback(response) {
    console.log(response);
}