Facebook API

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-Installing the Drupal content management system and CiviCRM
-Identifying and installing additional modules to meet client needs
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MySpace is apparently opening up their platform, creating the possibility for a Facebook-API-type module that lets people sign into Drupal sites with their MySpace account.

Info here: http://developer.myspace.com/Community/blogs/devteam/archive/2008/06/26/...

Is there a Group for MySpace just as there is for Facebook on groups.drupal.org? I searched, and couldn't find anything. Would anyone else here be interested in starting one?

Yesterday was Facebook's f8 developers conference here in San Francisco. They presented some great information about the new look (wider canvas pages, wider profile boxes, new feed options) and also Facebook Connect which will change the way Drupal sites share information with Facebook. They held a hackathon and honored several of the projects Facebook's engineers considered the best. And Drupal for Facebook was a winner (specifically, of a Sony PS3)!

Speaking of conferences, I've proposed a session about Facebook App development at the upcoming DrupalCon. It needs votes to make it into the schedule, so if you will attend the DrupalCon, please take a moment to vote for that session.

I'd also like feedback, and more votes, for my grant proposal. This grant could help fund Drupal for Facebook, thereby making it easier to use and up-to-date with Facebook's latest features. If you don't know about the Knight Drupal Initiative, you really should participate. All the proposed grants need review from within the Drupal community before being considered by the Knight Foundation. And if you have ideas that need funding, you really should submit your own proposal.

We need Drupal developers asap to help with adaptation with facebook functionality! Please send resume, cover letter, examples or samples of work and references to jkirsch@ihispano.com

We are a young, dynamic organization that is making a difference in people's lives by combining different technologies to create a one-of-a-kind online experience for the user. We are seeking a web developer to assist in the development of a series of new Sites as well as helping in maintenance of existing Sites.

What do you guys think about new API's launched by Facebook last week? It seems like it's going to make dataportability really easy. Here's the announcement on Facebook's site: http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=108

Are there any drupal apps that enable you to do this already? I know of the Authentication module.

I run a content-based website ( http://www.gradspot.com ) and have included facebook share icons/links at the bottom of each article. However, after clicking on the share icon/link, while I am forwarded to Facebook, it doesn't usually pick up anything from the article (i.e., there's no title, description or thumbnail). Sometimes it doesn't even pick up the link. All that being said, we've even included the meta tags Facebook suggests.

Anyone had this problem before and been able to fix it?

Thanks for any help you can give!

While Drupal already has many of the tools necessary to implement social networking techniques on a community site, I haven't found anything that works like the personalized central "News Feed" system in Facebook or Twitter.

I'm curious whether anyone has done any development work, planning or merely thinking about how this might be done in Drupal, and about the implications.

At the recent Bay Area Drupal Camp, I presented Drupal for Facebook. I built a small Facebook Application and walked through how I used Drupal to create it. Now the details of this presentation are available in two screencasts.

This is recommended viewing if you're curious what Drupal for Facebook is, or if you've downloaded it and are struggling to set it up. Read more: http://www.dave-cohen.com/node/2246

Or jump right to the videos:

http://blip.tv/file/492126?filename=Dcohen-DrupalForFacebookBADCampDemo2...
http://blip.tv/file/492102?filename=Dcohen-DrupalForFacebookBADCampDemo1...

(if the video doesnt play, select an alternate format on the bottom of the page. These links are to the higher resolution versions.)

Dave Cohen presented the Drupal for Facebook module this past weekend at the Bay Area Drupal Camp.
Here is the link to the audio: http://blip.tv/file/get/Kentbye_tech-SFDrupalCampDrupalForFacebook588.mp...
Audio from other sessions can be found here.

Breaking Open Facebook with Open Source Software (Part 2)

it’s important for socially aware software developers to begin thinking about how to provide alternative services to proprietary social networks. While I acknowledge this is a very high level description scarce on implementation details, I hope that it spurs some spirited discussions and future innovation.

http://www.idealog.us/2007/10/breaking-open-f.html

am looking for a drupal developer to work on social networking project centered on geo-spatial and interest data. I broke-down the project in several phases, phases 1 being very basic. So if you agree with this approach and you are an expert with drupal, php, google map's api, the gmap module, the categories module (CCK) and how it can apply to profiles, please do read on. Lastly, it would help tremendously if you would share with me any implementation examples similar to the specs below.

So here's a preview of the high-level functionality I need developed/implemented for Phase 1:

I've now added a secondary registration scheme to my facebook_auth module.
Some people have wanted to still have the email validation / welcome email, and it'll allow you to set it so admins have to approve the user account.

This can be tested at http://facebook-alt.dev.kodekoan.com

The basic one, where you almost automatically create and login can be tested at http://facebook.dev.kodekoan.com

The method can be quickly switched from the admin settings page (screenshot).

Before I commit any of the new changes, I was hoping I could get a bit of feedback on both the flow, and the wording.

Thanks,

So I started this module, Activity Module, in an attempt at recreating the Facebook functionality of being able to see what your friends are doing on a Drupal site. The friends are defined through the Buddylist Module so Activity is dependant upon Buddylist. The module still needs a lot of love, but it's an attempt.

A few technical notes for developers concerning how MySite interacts with non-Drupal data and application sources.

First, a little history. The core goal of the MySite module is to abstract content published to a Drupal site. So the MySie distribution supports content types native to Drupal. The reason for this is scope: I don't have time to solve every problem, so I focus on those.

I started watching the video of Dave Cohen's Facebook talk at DrupalCon...
http://www.archive.org/details/Drupal_for_Facebook

But it would be handy to follow along the slides separately. Does anybody know if they are available somewhere? My google-fu is failing me.

Also, is there video and/or slides available for the other two Facebook related talks?
http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/node/325
http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/node/568

I've been mucking around on FaceBook for the last week. It's cool, and the apps are nice.

And the dirty little secret is that MySite supports this type of "app" functionality through its plugin API -- it might even be made to read Facebook apps.

So where's the developer love?

/me stops whining

[UPDATE: I have stopped reading this thread.] 23-OCT-2007.

James Andres has been working on Drupal modules for integration of the Facebook API client and a module that would allow easy creation of Facebook apps using Drupal. My name is Séamus
O'Connor and I am working with James to get these properly released onto Drupal.org.

Here is a short list (in no particular order) of what we would like
to accomplish, and help in doing so would be greatly appreciated.

1) Right now the current codebase is in James' sandbox CVS area. We
would like to get a 'Facebook' project created that could house the
modules that James created.

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p>What if a Drupal developer could easily develop Facebook apps the "Drupal way" without having to learn the "Facebook way"? What if Drupal site admins could easily integrate their Drupal sites into Facebook?

Below is a list of various Facebook modules that are currently available. Each provide a partial attempt at integrating Drupal with the Facebook API, but none of them address the most critical issue - application integration and user/session management.

My goal is to create a module that allows a single Drupal site to be related to a single Facebook application. This will also relate a Drupal user to their Facebook user ID, as well as their application session key if they have installed the associated Facebook application. (Note, session keys allow you to asynchronously writing to profiles, feed actions and more.)

In addition, it would be nice to have a way to mange profile writing and feeding using themes, roles, actions and other existing modules.

Is anyone else interested in taking these modules to the next level?
Logging in and providing a Facebook API wrapper is nice, but it is only a fraction of the power.

I think it would be great if Drupal had a "Share on " feature like Facebook's share.php. Many sites have a "Share on Facebook" button, but there is also a link you can bookmark so you can share any page you visit on the web.

Drupal's aggregator module already has the ability to blog any individual news item that you subscribe to on your Drupal site by clicking "Blog It". But how would a similar button work that you can use on external sites, and also bookmark in your browser?

Any thoughts or work already being done on this?

We're a small, flexible, and energetic company - Gradspot dot com - that recently launched our website and services, and we're looking for a PHP hacker who isn't afraid to get drunk on drupal and join our team.

If anyone was not interested in Facebook development before, this should whet their appetite somewhat...

http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=90d7839c3df03d3858171b361584dc3chttp://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=90d7839c3df03d3858171b361584dc3c

Get coding! :)

Edit: That link is dead now, this one is better: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/a0txcUgfYeSXm5/Facebook-to-Offer-Big...

Hello Facebook Developers,

To speed the development of a Facebook App we've been working on our team has developed a Facebook "Development Framework" (I use the term very loosely) for Drupal. We're guessing this module would be useful for some Drupal developers, so we've been trying to keep it general.

Before we go any further it would be very helpful to get some feedback from the community. Here's a few questions we've got...

Noticed that the other one .. well doesn't support the new platform in the slightest, therefore doesn't work.

Whipped up a new version using the standard library.

I have yet to decide if i'm going to try and push to get this to replace the current code, or setup a new module, but in the mean time, i have a early release up @ http://www.kodekoan.com/files/facebook_auth.tgz which someone might be interested in.

Added its own new project. http://drupal.org/project/facebook_auth

See https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180636&package_id...

NewsCloud made a very interesting little Facebook app, and they released the source of the Facebook part of their application. Looks easy enough, perhaps a starting point to look at for some ideas.

See http://apps.facebook.com/npwidget/

Just shows stories that are posted, and I think that's a really simple functionality that could definitely be part of a generic API -- different RSS feeds / views.

I think ChipIn.Com might be next....

There's alot of uncited things in this article. I'll come back later w/ the proper links. Also, I'm not 100% up-to-speed with the newer features of the FB Platform, like FBML. Most of what I state about the Platform is from previous knowledge of the API.

Once a base module that implements the Facebook API is completed, what are some potential modules that could be built? Here's a starting list. I'm not going to consider whether it should be an .inc or .module, since that is a design consideration to be taken into account after we have a solid base to build off of.

I've already talked to at least half a dozen people that want to "integrate Drupal with Facebook". In some ways, that is a meaningless statement, since integration will be very specific to your site or service that happens to be built with Drupal.

But, I think we can join forces and at least have a solid module that can be extended.

Right now, I'm thinking along the lines of the pathauto module: it has a series of *.inc files (e.g. pathauto_node.inc) that allow it to work

Here are some ideas:
* facebookapi_event.inc (for event and date) -- post an event in Drupal, have it post to Facebook as well
* facebookapi_node.inc -- post a node, have it post as a Note to Facebook

What about "social networking"? Can we show Facebook information embedded directly in / extended from a Drupal user profile?

Update: it has been pointed out to me that I wasn't clear on the value for "Facebook Applications". If you make FunkyService.com and build it with Drupal, you'll still have to do some custom work for your special FunkyService. But, ideally, utilizing this kind of an API module, it would be as simple as a hook_facebookapi or a facebookapi_funkyservice.inc in order to work with FB.

Let's make Drupal a great platform for making Facebook Apps with....