Alternatives to ID input

  • Resolved adzay

    (@adzay)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    Quick question, Before my client wants to upload this plugin to his site he wants to know what you need to find albums on peoples facebook profiles.

    If I was to make a form field where the inputted data would be used as a variable for this short code, what will the client need to input?

    Can it just be his/her username for Facebook which can be found by https://www.facebook.com/”Username”? Or does it have to be the ID number for the specific album?

    I ask this because asking site visitors to input their Albumn ID isnt really user friendly

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/dub-facebook-albums/

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  • Plugin Author dubtools

    (@dubtools)

    Hi adzay,

    The plugin pulls photos based on your Facebook ID – you can find the ID between the 3rd and 4th slashes within the URL of your Facebook Profile page.

    https://www.facebook.com/YourFacebookID/photo_stream

    Also, there are currently no options for the shortcode, it is simply:

    [dub-facebook-albums]

    Your Facebook ID is set within the plugin’s settings page, this is so the plugin can retrieve and cache the Facebook data – if it was more “dynamic” so your client could input a variable, then it would suffer from longer load times as it would have to retrieve their Facebook data with every page load.

    Apologies, but we have no intention of adding this functionality to the plugin at the moment, as it’s caching ability is one of the main reasons it was created.

    If you wish to load Facebook data based on a submitted variable, we’d recommend having a look at leveraging the same Facebook Graph API as this plugin does:

    https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/

    Cheers

    Plugin Author dubtools

    (@dubtools)

    Marking as resolved. Cheers.

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