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onion_soup (onion_soup) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:58:09 +0000

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By: Boogieboa

Boogieboa — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:59:32 +0000

That’s a good idea, John. It would be worthwhile to see how others have managed to get the plugin working as you have.

Since a few of us here can’t, and it doesn’t seem as if anyone can pinpoint what’s going wrong, I’ll just have to try something else and look elsewhere.

Thanks for your time.

By: John

John — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:36:19 +0000

WPBook controls the width by providing its own custom theme, located in wpbook/theme/index.php, and using built in WordPress “hooks” to recognize when it is inside Facebook and substitute its own theme for the blog’s current theme.

I’m partial to my own: http://apps.facebook.com/openparenthesis/

Maybe I should start a new blog post or page and ask folks using WPBook to share their urls?

By: Boogieboa

Boogieboa — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:26:48 +0000

I see now that the javascript will only affects the height and not the width here (FB.CanvasClient.setCanvasHeight).

Your plugin allowed the same Canvas Page to fit inside the iFrame, adjusting the width automatically. How is that done?

Are there examples of Wpbook in action that I can see? I’d like to know what it should look like when working successfully.

By: John

John — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:11:21 +0000

@Boogieboa Also, the xd_receiver.html – shouldn’t be a php file – is there for the cross-domain javascript – it enables the javascripts called from Facebook to impact your page.

For example, to add the “Add to Profile” button, or to resize the iFrame to the contents.

It doesn’t impact the width at all, and also should have no impact on the ability to post comments.

By: John

John — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:09:22 +0000

@Boogieboa – not sure what issues are preventing the plugin from working for you – have you tried limiting plugins? It’s ultimately either plugin conflicts or misconfiguration in my experience that prevents a plugin from working.

Fitting the content to width in the iframe is a theming issue – you’d have to have your wordpress theme be “fluid” and able to show well in a skinnier window. This is what wpbook does, in fact, substituting it’s own theme when called inside the facebook context.

By: Boogieboa

Boogieboa — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:03:05 +0000

I wish it were that simple. This is a general question not a Wpbook-related one.

I can’t get your plugin to work: to either post comments, invite friends or add a profile box. It does fit very neatly into the iFrame content area, though. I figured, if anyone would know how to do that when creating a general Facebook application, you guys would.

I’m messing about with the xd_receiver.php file here but I’m not certain if therein lies the answer.

By: John

John — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:47:12 +0000

@Boogieboa Generally this is taken care of by the plugin.

Something’s off with your install, since it is showing your theme inside the iframe rather than the wpbook theme, which wouldn’t show any scroll bars.

Seems almost like the plugin is not even installed – unless you’ve customized /wp-content/plugins/wpbook/theme/ yourself?

By: Boogieboa

Boogieboa — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:00:56 +0000

Hey guys,

What’s the easiest way to reduce the Canvas Page (width) to fit into the iFrame content area without scrolling side to side?

Any sample codes would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

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By: Joe Schueller

Joe Schueller — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:32:02 +0000

Got this error on submit:
Assert failed: unknown connection id
Break into debugger?

By: Joe Schueller

Joe Schueller — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:30:21 +0000

Interesting that the 1st time I hit it (FF3b5 on Leopard) the frame didn’t render right, but 2nd time I hit the app, it loaded fine.

By: John Eckman

John Eckman — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:39:45 +0000

Hmm. Interesting how the behavior varies across browsers. Will need to spend some tweaking time – may have to wait till this weekend.

By: Terry Heath

Terry Heath — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:29:57 +0000

Interestingly, after posting a comment, it redirected to your site (url is reading openparenthesis.org), and the page exceeds the window but there’s no scrollbar.

http://skitch.com/terrbear/knn7/facebook-blog-application

I got down to where I am by just selecting the text and dragging it towards the bottom of the window. The facebook-auth thing is really cool, though. I like my pic just showing up without any effort.

By: Terry Heath

Terry Heath — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:26:46 +0000

@jeckman – I get the auto resize iframe on ff3b5, but on safari it looks good. Just put one of those “coded for Safari” badges up?

By: John

John — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:53:49 +0000

Terry – you were probably having the “auto resize iframe to content height” problem – when that fails, you can’t see the comment form at the end of the blog post, or the other four blog posts.

It’s just a simple javascript call, so I can’t figure out what makes it inconsistent – I will ask on the facebook developer forums.

By: terry

terry — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:46:17 +0000

hmm. i’m guessing i’m dumb. i added the app, but where do i go to post a comment?

By: Chris O'Rourke

Chris O'Rourke — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:30:20 +0000

This is an incredibly cool plugin/app. I can’t wait till you have all the bugs worked out and I can use it with my blog as well. Hell A version optimized for wpmu would kick even more ass.