Comments on: Difficulties, CakePHP and the Facebook API

By: Matt Huggins

Matt Huggins — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:35:06 +0000

Your comment got me to thinking that you might be setting something up in your app differently than expected. Are you setting up your anchor tags (links) within your app as “http://apps.facebook.com/appname/page.php”, or are you setting them up as “http://www.callbackdomain.com/appname/page.php”? If you’re setting them up as the latter, try changing all your links to the former before using require_frame() as I described above.

As with your app links, your form action URL’s should also be set up to point within the app.facebook.com domain, not your callback domain. (There are some special cases where you might want to point directly at your callback domain, but typically this is not how it should be done.)

By: thaichaiguy

thaichaiguy — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:16:28 +0000

Thanks for the comment Matt! I swear I tried putting the require_frame() at the beginning of my function with the same results. That would be the same as putting it in the beforeFilter right?

But since you’re the expert I’ll try it again.

By: Matt Huggins

Matt Huggins — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:13:32 +0000

I use require_frame() in CakePHP without needing to worry about all this. I simply place the call to require_frame() prior to any other processing (once the Facebook object is created, that is). You can easily achieve this by placing it in your beforeFilter function of either app_controller.php or your current controller.