Facebook Cookbook

Displaying/Hiding Content to/from Specific Users

Problem

How do I display content only to a specific user?

Solution

Use the fb:if-is-user tag. The simplest form is:

<fb:if-is-user uid="12345">You're it!</fb:if-is-user>

Discussion

As with all fb tags that begin with if, you can use the fb:else tag inside the fb:if-is-user to provide alternate content if the user isn’t the droid you’re looking for:

<fb:if-is-user uid="12345">
    You're it!
    <fb:else>
        You aren't it.
    </fb:else>
</fb:if-is-user>

You might sometimes want to check for a bunch of different users you want to exclude from seeing some content. The tag supports comma-separated uids, and you can use the fb:else tag to actually do the inverse of the example just shown:

<fb:if-is-user uid="12345,54321,11111,22222">
    <!-- No content here -->
    <fb:else>
        Everyone else sees this bit here.
    </fb:else>
</fb:if-is-user>