Jeff, If you want you can send me your version of the auth module. So we can merge it
thanks mic 2010/11/26 berubejd <[email protected]>: > I have a couple of applications (unpublished) which are Facebook > iframe apps written using web2py. > > There are a few caveats which are not web2py specific. The biggest is > that, using the new GraphAPI the developer has been stripped nearly > entirely of efficient methods of doing anything but querying FB data. > There are few ways, and none that I have found that are decent (I am > still working on it...), to pop open invite boxes, let users post to > their stream, query which of your users friends use an application, > etc. For much of that functionality you will need to rely on the JS > API (I hope), which I am hoping to start looking at this coming week, > or use the older REST API, which has a community only supported Python > library which is poorly maintained and required a LOT of work to just > make usable. > > Over the last year, I have expanded upon Massimo's FB example, > correcting the community library, and created an Auth replacement out > of it. I have created a hacked together Auth replacement which seems > to work well with the new GraphAPI, and I have, just over the last > week, hacked a bit on the module provided by Mr. Comitini because it > works well in concert with the existing Auth rather than replaces it > like the version I have put together. > > Although the new module is very nice, and probably works well for apps > running outside of FB, I have had to make a couple of changes already > in regards to application authorization and there is at least one > additional outstanding bug relating to setting the application path > which FB is supposed to return a user to after authentication. (I > have already dug through the new module and Auth but, without > additional work, have been unable to to source out the correct way to > set the 'next' variable which gets passed around half a dozen times > and needs to be set for FB... hehe) > > I had intended to release the entire application source for my test > application to the community with a series of posts documenting how > the various parts work but keep getting pulled onto other tasks before > I can finish all the integration points (stream, invite, etc) because > JavaScript is definitely not my strongest skill. > > I am more than happy to provide the Auth modifications or module, in > its current state, to anyone who can sort it out further. I'm not a > programmer by trade, however, so I can't speak for the quality of my > code... hehe > > Thanks! > Jeff > > On Nov 25, 9:30 am, Narendran <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> I am in the process of developing a Facebook IFrame app using Web2Py. >> If there is someone who's done this before, I'd like to get some >> guidance regarding, >> 1. What is better to do? Login using Javascript, or using Web2py >> auth? >> 2. Any other things to consider/look at specific to FB + Web2Py? >> >> -- >> Thanks >> Narendran
