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Facebook Connect: Only for grown ups

Ellen — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:03:45 +0000

In some Facebook Connect apps you might want to target an older audience. Any Facebook user is required to fill in their date of birth so the birthday field of the profile can be a way to check that your user has the appriopriate age for your application. This can be done by checking the birthday date of the user (birthday_date) using the function

users_getInfo($uid, ‘birthday_date’).

Important to remember though is that if the Facebook user has chosen not to show the birth year, this will not be available for the Facebook Connect application. To determine that the Facebook user has the appropriate age her settings on Facebook must look as follows:

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Add Facebook Connect to your blog comments

Ellen — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:09:08 +0000

This neat video explains how you can add Facebook Connect to your blog and let users add comments by logging into Facebook Connect! No server-side scripting needed!

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Prefill Facebook private messages

Ellen — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:02:13 +0000

I just found this neat little feature on Facebook which allows you to send prefilled messages to a person on Facebook.

Fill in:

id (must be the number id)
subject (string)
message (string)

The whole link looks like this:

http://www.facebook.com/inbox/?compose&id=652519918&message=I%20am%20writing%20to%20you..&subject=Just%20checked%20your%20blog!

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