May 2011
Beginner
408 pages
10h 27m
English
Content preview from Facebook® Application Development For Dummies®
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Inviting Your users' Friends through Requests
Another way to get the attention of your users' friends is by sending those friends requests. Think of this as a way to allow your app's users to invite other of their friends to use your application in a personal, private manner. This is a method that you'll want to test, because it gives better results for some than others, and over time, this area has not been quite as used as others. Still, it is an additional way to get your users' attention, and you should take advantage of it.
Sending a request is mostly just a matter of sending a simple JavaScript FB.ui call as I describe in the sharing example above, or redirecting to the appropriate dialog box URL. Here's what your JavaScript for such a request would look like, using the Inspirations example:
<html> <body> <div id="fb-root_14_chapter-04"></div> <script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <script> FB.init({appId: '169764986370463', status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true}); </script> <h1>Inspirations</h1> <div id="quote_14_chapter-04"> <span id="facebook_stuff_14_chapter-04"> <div id="profile_pic_14_chapter-04"><fb:profile-pic uid="683545112"> </fb:profile-pic></div> <div id="profile_name_14_chapter-04"><fb:name uid="683545112" useyou="false"> </fb:name> </span> "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking." -Albert ...Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
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