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14 years 8 months ago #14025 by carlucci001
Running Joomla1.7 and JomSocial 2.2.4 I am running into a problem where you click to invite friends from facebook, and it brings up a dialogue box showing your friends including avatars, and when you click invite or skip you get the error Illegal variable _files or _env or _get or _post or _cookie or _server or _session or globals passed to script. I have spent many hours trying to resolve this and cannot believe no one else is having this problem. My question is can I bypass the Invite Friends from Facebook with anything you have here at sourcecoast. Please advise.
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14 years 8 months ago #14030 by alzander
The JFBConnect package has a different friend invitation module than JomSocial. It's actually using an older method from Facebook, but has a lot less issues, from what we hear about JomSocial users who've switched to our full Facebook integration package.

You can see the invite module in action on the page below:
www.sourcecoast.com/jfbconnect/demo/jfbcinvite-module

There's a ton of other benefits to using JFBConnect for Facebook integration over JomSocial's built in implementation. You can read more about the enhancements on the following page:
www.sourcecoast.com/jfbconnect/features/...n/jomsocial-facebook

Hope that helps,
Alex
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14 years 8 months ago #14077 by undertaker
same problem here newest version of joomla and jomsocial error occurs after trying to invite friends from facebook can some one tell how to solve this error! evertything seems to work until someone wants to invites friends from facebook.
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14 years 8 months ago #14078 by fb_100000157901698
Hi,

I am not a Source Coast team member (just a client), but here goes my input on this.

To invite friends, I use the Request Diaglog as explained here: developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/requests/.
At first, the request dialog would not work. My symptoms were not the same as yours, but maybe the source of the problem is the same.

Joomla uses a MooTools release that is not compatible with FB's Javascript SDK. To solve this, you must prevent Joomla to load its default MooTools framework, and load the most recent release of MooTools (both "core" and "more"). You can get the framework from mootools.net/ - but be sure to NOT include compatibility when you build and download it.

Now I had this problem with just plain Joomla. JomSocial may be adding some more variables to the equation, but my tip to you is look for incompatibilities with MooTools and/or JQuery...
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14 years 8 months ago #14082 by alzander
Alexandre,
Thanks for the response.

To everyone, his answer is probably better than anything we can give, as I don't know JomSocial's invitation logic very well at all. We know ours :) In the 4.1 or 4.2 release, we're planning to move to the updated Requests functionality from Facebook, as it seems pretty solid now and ready to be integrated into our Joomla/Facebook suite of tools.

Thanks,
Alex
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14 years 8 months ago #14349 by davfal
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Carl is this module something we should look at? and if so I have subscribed and purchased this package from Sourcecoast. I need to know if we should switch to this module and disable the Jom Social?

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14 years 8 months ago #14353 by alzander
David,
I'm not sure what you're looking to do, but we can help you figure out the best way to implement stuff if you're looking for assistance. Just let us know what you're looking to accomplish.

Thanks,
Alex
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14 years 8 months ago #14356 by davfal
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Alex,
This post made earlier is the problem we are having. I have purchased your product and would like to use this as a plugin and or correction.
My fears are that with all the other plugins and or modules Jom Social, K2, VirtueMart and others have a worse effect and cause more issues?

Invite Friends from Facebook

Running Joomla1.7 and JomSocial 2.2.4 I am running into a problem where you click to invite friends from facebook, and it brings up a dialogue box showing your friends including avatars, and when you click invite or skip you get the error Illegal variable _files or _env or _get or _post or _cookie or _server or _session or globals passed to script. I have spent many hours trying to resolve this and cannot believe no one else is having this problem. My question is can I bypass the Invite Friends from Facebook with anything you have here at sourcecoast. Please advise.
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14 years 7 months ago #14435 by alzander
David,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to this post.

Yes, you can use the JFBCInvite module, included with JFBConnect, which has our own implementation of the Facebook Invite code. It actually uses the older Requests 1.0 system from Facebook, but generally has been more stable than the newer Requests 2.0 system introduced earlier this year. JomSocial does use Requests 2.0, and we're planning to move to it as well in the 4.1 release.. but we'll be testing the heck out of it and making sure it's rock solid. Our focus is on Facebook integration, while JomSocial's isn't, which is why we do it so well. There's plenty that JomSocial does right, so not saying anything bad about their extension, just that their core focus isn't on Facebook.

Hope that helps explain, and if you run into issues or need help implementing JFBCInvite, just let us know!
Alex
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