Comments on: Facebook API with CakePHP

By: Dave Jarvis

Dave Jarvis — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:31:39 +0000

It seems some people are having trouble with the Facebook Data Store API. I have abstracted its behaviour into several classes. Although incomplete, the WMSFacebookDataStore API allows rudimentary CRUD access to Facebook’s database.

http://www.davidjarvis.ca/facebook/
http://www.davidjarvis.ca/facebook/docs/

Data Store classes:
WMSFacebookDataStore
WMSFacebookDataStoreAssociation
WMSFacebookDataStoreAssociationLink
WMSFacebookDataStoreObject
WMSFacebookDataStoreProperty
WMSFacebookDataStoreRow

Core classes:
WMSFacebook
WMSFacebookApplication
WMSFacebookFriend (stub)
WMSFacebookMessage (stub)
WMSFacebookObject
WMSFacebookProfile (stub)
WMSFacebookUser

At the very least it shows how to use Facebook’s Data Store API.

By: Joseph Lindley

Joseph Lindley — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:56:21 +0000

Hi Paul,

Firstly, lovely website - take a look at mine…. :o)

Secondly, the reason that I landed on your page is because I’m researching using the API for a project that I’d like to set up…and maybe we could work together on it- if you’re interested.

Its really a very simple thing, based on my spam/art mashup idea that’s well documented on my website.

Basically I’d like to do the same, but much more legitimately, on facebook, and with a more structured ethos behind the idea…. drop me a line about it anyway joseph dot lindley @ gmail.

Cheers for the article either way, nicely simplified for the guy about to dive in and start hacking stuff together without really knowing what he’s on about ;o)

All the best,
Joe

By: Gert

Gert — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:45:41 +0000

Could you explain it better and maybe give an example code..
I tried your code but i dont have much experience with CakePHP and I become a strange error in the facebookapi file

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:59:05 +0000

disregard previous comment… i’m looking into build a controller component instead

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:02:40 +0000

Thank you very much, but sadly this is the only howto and it is missing some critical directions. Here are a few things that I had to use trial/error on…

1.) vendor(’facebook/facebook’); goes BEFORE your controller’s class declaration.

2.) $facebook = new Facebook($api_key, $secret); needs to be inside a controller’s function, such as the beforeFilter()

3.) I had to add $GLOBALS[’facebook_config’][’debug’] = NULL; to avoid PHP throwing this notice…

Notice: Undefined index: facebook_config in /home/.indi/savarino/geohelper.com-codebox2/vendors/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 54

By: Paul Herron

Paul Herron — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 13:24:36 +0000

Thanks Paul! This is an interesting article. You’ve motivated me to spend my Saturday fiddling with Cake and the Facebook API…

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:29:33 +0000

Nice, been looking for a short introduction to facebook on cake, this does the job!