By sp_key on

Dear all,

I'm quite confused as to what Drupal for facebook offers which is different to other standalone and smaller modules or even grabing the code from facebook.

For example, I want to add a facebook like button below my posts.
Can I do this with Drupal for facebook or am I better off with another module?

Also, what is the purpose of the canvas pages? I fully understand what they do but I don't see the benefit of them. The URL is at http://apps.facebook.com/example.com so it's highly unlikely any facebook user will find your content from your website at that location.

Can you please enlighten me?
If any of you has built anything with drupal for facebook I would love to see it!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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dewcansam’s picture

dewcansam commented

Well, i can't believe nobody commented on this yet. Anyway i will feed you info as i get it mostly because i can't answer all your questions just yet. However the easiest to answer is the question about the "Like" button. The fb_like button is really easy and you really don't need to do anything extra for it.

1. Go to this page http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like
2. Fill out the info and click on the "Get Code" button
3. Copy the IFRAME code
4. Create a new block on your drupal site
5. Paste the code there

and your done. Took me less than 5 minutes. http://dcs777.homeip.net

edit: I suppose that you could add it to a specific page, if you want. Haven't tried it yet.

kaakuu’s picture

kaakuu commented

@dewcansam

Not sure if I understood right : the button on your website seems a generic one for the whole site and not the individual nodes ?

sp_key’s picture

sp_key commented

dewcansam, thanks for the info.

kaakuu, you're right. Apparently you can have a like button per individual node but you need to get the fbml code. More details here: http://drupal.org/node/804112

So Drupal for facebook vs grabing the code from facebook: Main difference is the function of building apps such as canvas pages? I don't really see...

happydrupal’s picture

happydrupal commented

The following module might help!

http://drupal.org/project/fb_social