Comments on: Authenticating Users With Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect

By: Martin Krcho

Martin Krcho — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:41:22 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial, mate Have you already posted another one explaining server-side integration of both APIs? I want to write a simple webapp, where I will give people a choice to either create an account or to use one of their existing accounts (FB, Google, Yahoo, you name them…). I am assumig that you simply save user’s username and profile picture URL when they post a comment. The name won’t get updated when the users change their name on Facebook though, right? Is then better solution to save their Facebook ID ane load the info on the fly? I am not trying to criticise, just start a discussion. Thanks

By: Pablo

Pablo — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:31:36 +0000

Something like this:

// Sent the request
req.send(function(data) {
// If the view_data had an error, then user is not signed in
if (!data.get(‘viewer_data’).hadError()) {
//get the users data from GFC
var viewer = data.get(‘viewer_data’).getData();
if (typeof(viewer.getField(opensocial.Person.Field.URLS)) != “undefined”)
var url = viewer.getField(opensocial.Person.Field.URLS)[0].getField(‘address’);
else
var url = “”;
update_userbox( viewer.getDisplayName(),
viewer.getField(opensocial.Person.Field.THUMBNAIL_URL),
url,
‘google.friendconnect.requestSignOut()’);
}
});

By: Pablo

Pablo — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:27:58 +0000

The field URLS is optional!! check if undefined first

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By: Abdul Ibad

Abdul Ibad — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:01:59 +0000

same here. Only works with twitter but failed with google and yahoo.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:08:27 +0000

Cool.

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By: pankaj

pankaj — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:55:23 +0000

Thanks for the nice tutorial ,

By: Anton Agestam

Anton Agestam — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:56:10 +0000

Pretty obvious that “opensocial.Person.Field.URLS” is not set. Have you spelled wrong somewhere?