Donald Gilbert

@pawelsuder – Please listen with attention – I am the writer of the plugin, so I know what it needs. If the page you posted is the fan page that you would like to use my plugin with, then what I posted (330023013371) is what you need to use.

Also, try to be more clear with your question – because it really isn’t. “I have a problem with fanbox ID” isn’t very descriptive.

This is still an issue in the latest release of the plugin – please test before you release. – just add this into the core on line 135 of more-types-objects.php – if(is_object($wp_roles))

@pawelsuder – Your Fan Page ID is 330023013371.

For those who can’t find it, navigate to your fanpage, and then view the page source. In it, you’ll find a section near the top that looks like this image. You’ll see your Fan Page ID there.

In v2.0, I’ll have an ID Getter where you can just paste your URL, and it will return your Fan Page ID.

@bucciamarcia – it looks like your web host does not have cURL enabled for your site.

In future versions, this *shouldn’t* matter, because I am removing the requirement for cURL to be enabled by utilizing WordPress’ WP_HTTP class to make the request instead. What that will do is find what method is available on your server, and retrieve it using the fastest / most efficient available method.

Look for it in v2.0. ??

I just pushed the fix live for everyone. For those of you experiencing the same issue, just update to 1.4.1 (or greater if it’s out when you are reading this). Thanks Peter

@peteratomic – ahh crap, apparently I didn’t take into consideration the fact that I can’t assume people will have WordPress installed in the root directory. Sorry. With caching images in 1.4, and then rewriting the URLs to serve the local image, it’s looking in the wrong path for your pictures, since your in /blog.

You can wait for the next release (20 min) or you can fix it yourself. On line 226, 264, and 299 add /blog in front of /wp-content in the src tag, and it will work fine.

That would be pretty boss, I ain’t gonna lie. It’s also pretty hard to accomplish, but should still be doable, nonetheless, since all the informational data is there as well as all the javascripts.

@danmichel – if you supply some useful information, I could help you out.

@jurg3n – I don’t have streams enabled at this point. Although it is on the hitlist for version 2.0.

Here’s the fully partial list: ( <- Not a typo :] )
1. Themes
2. Facebook IDFinder
3. Translations
4. Streams

If there’s anything that anyone would like to see in v2.0, let me know. Feature requests are always welcome.

@chrissss – Danke! I knew that this would come up when the plugin got popular, but I’m sorry to admit that I don’t have anything in place for language translation. I want to for sure, but I don’t know where to start. Can you point me in the right direction? (I’ll start searching the Codex.)

Also, thanks for pointing out an easy way to find the page id for users you can’t. I have another regex created that will search page source for the id, but I don’t have it implemented yet. Maybe version 2.0 with IDFinder and Translations is in order?

@jurg3n – what version of the plugin are you using?

That means that cURL is not able to access the URL of the fan page iframe. It throws the error when $this->_html is empty or false. Do you have a custom URL for you fan page? Are you sure that you entered the ID correctly?

@christianslater – that usually means that PHP isn’t running under the same account as the hosting account, or for some other reason doesn’t have sufficient privileges to use that cache directory.

This can be easily solved by accessing your account via FTP and changing the permissions on the cache folder to 777, thus allowing PHP permission to write to it and read from it.

If you aren’t able to access and change permissions via FTP, you could possibly request your web host to “allow PHP to write to the /###/#####/#####/wp-content/plugins/facebook-fan-box-cache/cache/” directory.

Exactly what I was going to point out. The reason I did this is because WP 3.1+ is going to be PHP5+ only.

@hnaparst – Your Fanbox ID can be found in your Facebook fanpage url. It is the part after /pages/PAGE-NAME/###########/ . Those numbers are your ID. If you are using a custom page name for you page, then I don’t have an “easy” way to get it for you. However, I am working on a tool that will take care of it for you, and will implement it soon.

@jackfuture – That’s precisely why I coded it the way I did. I made it as plane-jane as possible and even added the option to disable all inline CSS so that people concerned with the way it looks can put in their own styling via style.css. However, if the need is great, I’ll consider adding the ability for “themes” selection in the admin panel. With options like “Facebook Style”, “Clean & Crisp”, or “Blank Slate”

+1 davidryal – smartest thing said so far in this thread.