Comments on: CodeIgniter + Facebook Connect

By: mazio

mazio — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:47:48 +0000

I just want to say that this tutorial is incomplete …
it lacks many things that the author could make them without problems
such helper needed get_static_facebook_root functions () and api key
also missing user_model
Why not be included here?

Please finish this well, I would greatly appreciate

By: J

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:50:18 +0000

Those are just helper functions (get_facebook_api_key, get_facebook_secret_key,get_base_facebook_url and get_static_facebook_root) I created inside (system/application/helpers/facebook_helper.php) to retrieve different facebook_api_key, facebook_secret_key, and base_facebook_url from system/application/config/facebook.php.

You can choose to do that or just hard code it inside the master page. Only reason I took the hard approach is because I had a local, staging and production server and all those config values changed depending on that.

By: zipmaster

zipmaster — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:44:08 +0000

ok new error undefined function get_static_facebook_root()

By: J

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:21:34 +0000

Good point. I had never tried it that way. If it works then that’s probably a better approach.

By: zipmaster

zipmaster — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:16:56 +0000

shouldnt the facebook files go to application/plugin instead of system/plugin?

By: J

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:20:59 +0000

Checkout the post again. I updated it with filenames in bold. Hope that helps.

By: zipmaster

zipmaster — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:08:12 +0000

Well were do I put these files and what do I call them? I tried going by the class names and that didn’t work.

By: J

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:18:51 +0000

I extracted this code out of a site that I built for a major brand. I am under a NDA. So I can’t just give you that code as-is. What I can do is help you out if you tell me what exactly you are having issues with.

By: zipmaster

zipmaster — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:34:12 +0000

I am having trouble fallowing your code. would you mind emailing me a copy of a working example?

By: J

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:37:14 +0000

Ah good point. Can’t believe I left that part out. So basically all you do is download Facebook platform API ZIP, copy everything inside /php folder to the ./system/plugins of your CI application, and then finally rename the facebook.php file to facebook_pi.php That way you would be able to run the Facebook API library as a plugin in CI.