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Comment on cocoasudo: A graphical Cocoa based alternative to sudo by mystro

mystro — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:55:23 +0000

I love your tool! It’s fantastic and is great exactly formy situation (Java app ported to mac). I’m wondering if you could also write a quick tool that lets you add items to the com.apple.loginitems.plist file? I think it’s accessible using Apple’s LSSharedFileListItemRef, but I’m not an OSX developer :S

Comment on scrollIntoView, but only if out of view by Hieu Le

Hieu Le — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:13:11 +0000

thanks so much. This is a good solution.

Comment on cocoasudo: A graphical Cocoa based alternative to sudo by Mital Vora

Mital Vora — Mon, 31 May 2010 09:30:38 +0000

Amazing code that works brilliantly on osx 1.6. good work buddy !!

Comment on Tell iPhone Devs – Pick Up The Phone! by desarae

desarae — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:44:20 +0000

WOW! Congrats.

Comment on Facebook iPhone Session Proxy in PHP (FBSession getSessionProxy) by Mark

Mark — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:10:13 +0000

The video I mentioned – pretty iPhone specific, and all iPhone developers will immediately find it, but in case someone is frustrated at reading the above and not having a link:

http://www.vimeo.com/3616452

Comment on Facebook iPhone Session Proxy in PHP (FBSession getSessionProxy) by Mark

Mark — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:09:02 +0000

Update: after I set it up end-to-end, it is working. I didn’t have to do any further changes to the script, and I followed pretty much the instructions in the short iPhone FBConnect video. Moral of the story: FB isn’t really big on giving you ways to test individual components; you have to do big-bang development and then hope everything works at the end.

Comment on Facebook iPhone Session Proxy in PHP (FBSession getSessionProxy) by aaron

aaron — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:23:32 +0000

The auth_token is generated by Facebook and automatically passed by them… In short, you’ll more or less need a working iPhone app to test. Wish there were a simpler way, but can’t provide any pointers on that…

In regards to the web vs. desktop setting, desktop should be the moral equivalent of an iPhone app – so unless you also have a web app to supplement the iPhone app, the desktop setting should be sufficient.

Good luck! Hope this all helps once the app is ready.

Comment on Facebook iPhone Session Proxy in PHP (FBSession getSessionProxy) by Mark

Mark — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:20:15 +0000

Oops, in my URL in previous post after auth_token= it had a placeholder for my API key, but I wrote it (for the post) inside less-than/greater than, so it didn’t show up in my post.

Trying again:
http://www.mydomain.com/scriptname.php?auth_token={my_app_api_id_here}&generate_session_secret=1

Comment on Facebook iPhone Session Proxy in PHP (FBSession getSessionProxy) by Mark

Mark — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:17:21 +0000

Thanks for replying.

Here’s my theory for what my problem is. I don’t have the first clue about PHP, so I was running the PHP script from the command line with php scriptname.php, and expecting it to work. After digging into PHP a bit I see that $_GET is populated from the values set in an incoming http request, so it won’t contain anything if the script is run from the command line. Basic web 101 developer mistake type stuff.

So for now I’m just hoping it’s working; I will only be able to verify it once I get it all coded up end-to-end in the app. Was hoping I could just try out the script but no such luck.

Also tried it in a web browser with http://www.mydomain.com/scriptname.php?auth_token=&generate_session_secret=1 but that still gave an error:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘FacebookRestClientException’ with message ‘Invalid parameter’ in /somepath/fb/facebook-platform/php/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php:3112 Stack trace: #0 /somepath/fb/facebook-platform/php/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php(309): FacebookRestClient->call_method(’facebook.auth.g…’, Array) #1 /somepath/fb/auth-proxy.php(18): FacebookRestClient->auth_getSession(’e56974405663778…’, ‘1′) #2 {main} thrown in /somepath/fb/facebook-platform/php/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 3112

Maybe there are other parameters that are set under the hood when the call is made from the iPhone client library.

Re: your questions, Sandbox mode is not on.

As to the callback URL, I’m not sure why the choices are only web and desktop. I’m trying to add FBConnect to an iPhone app. Mine was set to web but I changed it to desktop now, and that hasn’t helped.

Changes to the script: it’s as-is, except for my app’s api key and secret, and I changed the require line to point to the facebook.php file on my system, which resides in the untarred folder with the other FBConnect library files.

Comment on Facebook iPhone Session Proxy in PHP (FBSession getSessionProxy) by aaron

aaron — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:17:49 +0000

There are a lot of different settings that might be throwing things off… On the advanced settings tab for the app, you might want to look at a few things. Is sandbox mode on? If so, maybe turn it off. What do you have the application type set to? For this app in particular – for various reasons – I used web, but you may want to use desktop. If you use web, a canvas callback url is required on the canvas tab. If you use desktop, that’s not needed.

Are you using the script above as-is (only changing the api key and session secret), or were other changes made?