I've been trying to get this application working on Facebook, but nothing seems to render within the application except
"Hi this is some sample text."
A box stroked in red. "I am My photo " and a default silhoutte of a Facebook user
as the photo.
The following is the source code of the canvas frame:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml">
<head>
<title>Cutting Masala Chai Invitation</title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php"></script>
Hi this is some sample text.
<fb:serverfbml style="border: 1px solid red; min-width: 700px;min-height: 400px">
<script type="text/fbml">
<fb:fbml>
<fb:request-form
action="http://www.cuttingmasalachai.com/facebook"
method="POST"
invite="true"
type="Cutting Masala Chai"
content="<fb:name uid="605869619" firstnameonly="true" shownetwork="false" />wants to invite you share stories and vote for celebrities for the book Cutting Masala Chai,<fb:req-choice url="http://apps.facebook.com/cuttingmasalachai" label="Add Cutting Masala Chai" />">
<fb:multi-friend-selector
max="20"
actiontext="Invite your friends to Cutting Masala Chai."
showborder="false"
rows="5">
</fb:multi-friend-selector>
</fb:request-form>
</fb:fbml>
</script>
</fb:serverfbml>
I am <fb:name uid="605869619" firstnameonly="true" shownetwork="false"></fb:name>
My photo <fb:profile-pic uid="605869619"></fb:profile-pic>
<script type="text/javascript">
FB_RequireFeatures(["XFBML"], function(){
console.log('fb_requirefeatures function got called');
FB.Facebook.init("0acf016613ca171e9665f128d318fd75", "/facebook/xd_receiver.html");
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
Application settings:
- Canvas Mode: IFRAME
- Canvas Callback URL:
http://www.cuttingmasalachai.com/facebook
- Canvas URL:
http://apps.facebook.com/cuttingmasalachai
- URL to
xd_receiver.html
:http://www.cuttingmasalachai.com/facebook/xd_receiver.html
- Connect URL:
http://www.cuttingmasalachai.com/facebook
- Base Domain:
www.cuttingmasalachai.com
I'd be grateful for any help. Thank you.
A couple other people were facing the same problem:
Facebook Forum Discussion about this problem.
The problem was with the Connect URL and the base domain I was using and a LITTLE bit of PATIENCE.
Propagating settings to servers takes a few minutes on Facebook. I just needed to wait a bit more after setting the connect url and base domain to these:
Hope that helps anybody that comes across this problem. Cheers. Also, 5 beers for adougherty and krisoye from the forums for posting the problem and providing solutions.
Settings in application in connect connect url like your Canvas Callback URL (http://www.baseurl/name/), Base Domain without www (baseurl) and this in javascript help.
Add this to the end of file where is
All my code is in file
invite_friends.tpl
.I've read on the wiki that the accepted path of xd_receiver.html depends on the browser, and Firefox accept the full path, while IE Opera and Safari want a path relative to the current page (like "xd_receiver.html" or "../xd_receiver.html" ).
I have to thank you because your hint on setting the URL and basedomain in Connect saved my day :-)
Ciao, Roberto
I had a very similar problem, and it turned out to be caused by fbml not being enabled by default. Instead, iframes applications are.
I turned it on (there's a radio choice fbml/iframe) in my application settings and discovered there's a reason: iframes are faster.
Documentation on iframes anyway is getting scarce and intermixed with pages talking only about facebook connect (it's very similar, if not the same, in many aspects, yes)
Fbml documention seems to be the best one, now. (And fbml applications look good with less effort)