Page tabs - How to display some basic personalized content

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the reply, I think you understand what I'm after.

Could you give any snippets on the code to acheive this? I know this maybe isnt really DFF specific as such, but I would really appreciate any help.

We basically need the logged in user to visit the canvas page and somehow register that they are indeed the user who's authored nodes are then displayed when an anonymous visitor views the fb tab.

I hope Im not misunderstanding how this could work though, the use case is as follows...

The website is a restuarant menu directory, a restaurant signs up to the drupal site through DFF and adds some menu nodes, they then add the fb tab to their facebook profile, they visit the fb tab and a setting is set to say that the nodes displayed on their fb tab are only nodes authored by them. So multiple restuarants add the fb tab to their facebook profiles and each of these tabs show only the menu nodes authored by each specific restuarant.

Is this possible?

Hi Dave,

I'm a bit confused by something, maybe you can clairfy.

if I'm using fb_tab/view as the path and using a custom fb_tab.module, where is there a variable or option permanently set to decide what is displayed on the tab and how is this set independently for each user that adds a tab?

I'm looking at the code at the bottom this page again: http://drupal.org/node/956034.

The following snippet sets the configuration:

elseif ($op == FB_TAB_OP_FORM) {
    // fb_tab.module is asking us for our custom form element.  fb_tab.module
    // will take care of saving the settings to the fb_tab table.
    // This element lets the user choose one of their organic groups.
    $return['eg_fb_og'] = array(
      '#type' => 'select',
      '#title' => t('Select a group to display in this tab'),
      '#options' => eg_group_options($GLOBALS['user']->uid),
      '#default_value' => $data['config']['eg_fb_og'],
      '#description' => t(''),
    );
  }

I don't understand how this is configuring a page to always display the same thing on subsequent visits. Does FB_TAB_OP_FORM store the results of the form in the fb_tab table?

I'm not using Organic Groups, but If I have some code which just displays nodes authored by a specific user and a visitor on my site configures the fb_tab form and selects a username, then how do other users visit the tab and set it to THEIR own settings? I'm just not grasping how the fb_tab is configured independently for each user that adds it to their facebook profile.

Thanks for the reply. Facebook page and not user profile is fine as it's exactly what we require.

The bit that was confusing me is that a user called, lets say 'Joe', adds the facebook app to his facebook page/group and sets the options for what he wants displayed on the fb tab, then all the people who visit that tab on his facebook page see the content which he set when he first installed the facebook app.

Another user called John comes along and also installs the same facebook app on his page/group and then configures it to display content different to what Joe configured above, so all the visitors to Johns fb tab on his facebook page/group see the content that John configured.

It's the same facebook app served from the same path in both Joe's and John's cases, so like you said earlier in this thread "how can I configure it shows nodes by user A on page X, and nodes by user B on page Y?" - page X (Joe's page) and page Y (John's page) are actually being created and stored somewhere and each are uniquely and permanently associated with the individual installation of the facebook tab? The content displayed on page X (Joe's page) should not be just content that Joe sees, it should be specific content that Joe has configured for visitors to his facebook page to see (the visitors will just be regular facebook users and not registered users on the Drupal site).

Anyway, still not 100% getting it but I'll try a few things and see how I get on :)

Great, thanks for the replies!

Hi Dave,

Below is the code I am trying based on the example, it just has a few changes but I cant get it to work, the configuration is never saved for some reason and the tab is always being asked to be configured, its probably something very simple. Any ideas?

function menuhub_facebook_fb_tab($op, $data, &$return) {
  if ($op == FB_TAB_OP_VIEW) {
    // fb_tab.module is asking us for the content of the tab.
   if (count($data['config'])) {
      // We have been configured, we can show the menu nodes created by the facebook page admin.
     $result = db_query("SELECT nid FROM {node} WHERE status=1 AND type='menu' AND uid='%d'", $facebook_page_admin); 
     $item = db_fetch_object($result);
     $users_menu = node_load($item->nid);
     return $users_menu;
     print t('Users menu will display here');
    }
    else {
      // We have not been configured, send user to configuration page.  Rather
      // than build a form to display here (on the Tab), we send the user to a
      // canvas page.  On a canvas page, we'll know the user's fbu (on Tab we
      // know only the page id).
      $return['menuhub_facebook_fb_tab'] = array(
        '#type' => 'markup',
        '#value' => t('This tab has not been configured.  <a href="!href">Click here to configure</a>.', array(
                        '!href' => fb_tab_config_url($data['profile_id']),
                      )),
        '#prefix' => '<p>',
        '#suffix' => '</p>',
      );
    }
  }
  elseif ($op == FB_TAB_OP_FORM) {
    // fb_tab.module is asking us for our custom form element.  fb_tab.module
    // will take care of saving the settings to the fb_tab table.
    // This form sets the tab content to menu nodes authored by the facebook page admin (the logged in user).
	global $user;
    $data['config']['facebook_page_admin'] = $user->uid;
    $return['facebook_page_admin'] = array(
      '#type' => 'textfield',
      '#title' => t('Click submit to set the page tab to display your menu'),
      '#default_value' => $data['config']['facebook_page_admin'],
      '#description' => t(''),
    );
    
  }
}

I've got this working but in the very last bit:

elseif ($op == FB_TAB_OP_FORM)

The form is submitted ok but there is no confirmation, the page just reloads. How do I display a simple message saying 'Your tab has been configured' ?

Anyone?

Just trying to do something very simple, have the tab content loaded after the user clicks submit, instead of the current behavior which is - user clicks submit and nothing appears to happen, the form just reloads but it does configure the tab properly.

I've read all about from submission and redirection but I've no idea how Im supposed to apply what I've read using this FB_TAB_OP_FORM, as it doesnt appear to work like a normal form.

Here is the code for my form:

  elseif ($op == FB_TAB_OP_FORM) {
    // fb_tab.module is asking us for our custom form element.  fb_tab.module
    // will take care of saving the settings to the fb_tab table.
    // This form sets the tab content to menu nodes authored by the facebook page admin (the logged in user).
global $user;
    $data['config']['facebook_page_admin'] = $user->uid;
    $return['facebook_page_admin'] = array(
      '#type' => 'textfield',
      '#title' => t('Click submit to set the page tab to display your menu'),
      '#default_value' => $data['config']['facebook_page_admin'],
      '#description' => t(''),
    );
  }

Dave,

I found the following in fb_tab.module...

/**
 * Submit handler for tab config form.
 */
function fb_tab_config_form_submit($form, &$form_state) {
  if ($profile_id = $form_state['values']['profile_id']) {
    fb_tab_write_config($form_state['values']);
    $data = fb_fql_query($GLOBALS['_fb'], "SELECT page_id, name, pic_small, page_url, type FROM page WHERE page_id=$profile_id"); // FQL, no {curly_brackets}
    drupal_set_message(t('The tab settings for <a href="!url">%page</a> have been updated.', array(
                           '!url' => $data[0]['page_url'],
                           '%page' => $data[0]['name'],
                         )));
  }
}

I can see the drupal_set_message for the confirmation message in the code above, exactly what I want and what I expected to happen. Any ideas why this isnt working in my case?

edit: I added the following just before drupal_set_message:

print ('The tab settings have been updated');

This displays for about a second and then the page just reloads and displays the config form again...any ideas?