Select Facebook friends and enter their name/avatar in cck text field
Posted Thu, 04/26/2012 - 16:59 by 1552710384@facebook

Hi Everybody,

i am currently trying to make a facebopok app with drupal where the user can select one of his facebook friends when creating a node of a content type. Once the facebook friend gets selected, his name should get saved in a text field of the content type.

This is my first step. Afterwards i would also like to save the friends avatar and link to his profile in fields.

The content creation should also trigger a facebook posting like "user said hello to name-of-selected friend" on his wall, and optionally on the wall of the selected friend.

Is that possible with this module?

Thank you very much,

Nilsja

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my question sounds a bit stupid - perhaps i should add that

by 1552710384@facebook - 04/27/2012 - 13:32

i have good php and basic javascript knowledge, drupal 7 installed, and Fbconnect connect and Facebook Social modules both up and running.

i just dont understand whether i really need to manually create a content type via a module, or if there is a way to connect field types to e.g. a facebook friend selector.

Is there an easy way to select a facebook friend and parse the facebook name of this friend into a node (text) field?

see fb_form.module

by Dave Cohen - 05/22/2012 - 18:31

This takes me back to the earliest days of developing this module. There's some code in fb_form.module aimed at this. But frankly it's been collecting dust for a while. I encourage you to try and bring it back to life (and upgrade to D7).

In fb_form.module you'll see an attempt to create a multi friend selector form element.

I consider the form element to be the basic building block, as opposed to a CCK field. Believe it or not, not everyone uses CCK. And if a form element type exists, it should make it easier to create a field.