Custom Opengraph in JFB

Sriram,
If you wanted to create a custom button that a user can click for an action like "Enjoyed" for "John enjoyed the discussion" (where discussion is the object), you would do the following:
* Create the Action and Object in the Facebook Open Graph developers area
* Create the 'custom' action and object in Open Graph. You would need to leave the "FB Built-In" un-checked in this case.
* The object is created as a "Custom Object" and in the right hand Query Parameters, you'd need to add the correct URL settings, like:

option=com_easydiscuss
view=discussion

Assuming those values are right, that would make the object apply to all Easy Discuss pages.
* Make sure the action you created is associated to the object you create.
* Then, in the EasyDiscuss template or with a custom HTML module, add the following code to display the "I enjoyed" button:In the triggerAction call, the '1' is the ID of the Action (found in the Open Graph area of JFBConnect) and window.location would be for the current page. You could alter this to be for a different page (if you were in a blog-type view, for instance) as well. Then, just use an image you'd want to display for the button.

Hope that gets you started and makes sense, but if you have any other questions, just let me know.

Thanks,
Alex

Sriram,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to this. For an automatic action to be posted when a user does something on your site, you'll likely need to create an Open Graph plugin for JFBConnect to integrate with that extension. We have quite a few Open Graph plugins already available that you could use for reference if you want to build that.

The code I gave would only be for a link or button the user would click. When you insert that into a PHP file, you'd simply want to make sure that the code is being echo'd properly. That sounds like the case though, or else you'd get a PHP error.

If you click the link and nothing happens, then I'd suggest looking at the Error Console in your browser which should show you if there are any Javascript errors occurring. Let us know what those are and we can gladly help.

Alternatively, can you post a URL to a page where you've included the code above? Then, we can look at the code on the page and see if we see any issues.

Thanks,
Alex

Sriram,
In the Custom Object settings, you have:If that's the actual text you put in our configuration settings, that would be wrong. We don't parse PHP in the that block, so we would be looking for a pid that actually equals ".$this->pid", which won't ever happen.

Additionally, can you tell me if you're expecting this to trigger automatically, or are you trying to use a button the user can click to post the action? If you want it automatic, you'll need to create an Open Graph plugin, as noted above.

Also, the images are useful, but without seeing the actual HTML, it's difficult to diagnose what could be going wrong.

Let me know how you're trying to get the action going (button-click, I'm assuming) and the URL we can test on, if possible, and we'll gladly help investigate more.

Thanks,
Alex

Oh, also, in the Query Params box, if you want multiple variables to be looked for, they should be entered like:Each variable on a newline, with no & in between.

Sriram,
It should be fine if you can't use the pid in the trigger. Basically, what you'd want to do then is to update the Custom Object settings to just be:That will make the object work on any page of your component for any pid. So, in other words, you want to make the settings as specific as possible, but if there's a variable that can change (like pid), just leave it out.

Then, add your button to the end page form, like:The update there is that the window.location was changed to "yoursite.com/destination-url". Since the user would click the button on one page, but would be referencing your "propertyshow" page, you need to actually specify the 'final' page. The window.location value would have just been for the current page the button was clicked on, which doesn't sound like what you want.

Finally, one little change will be required in JFBConnect that I realized. Please edit the /libraries/sourcecoast/openGraphPlugin.php file. Around line 200, you'll see:Update that to:That will force the code in that block to execute, which is important for your custom action.

I hope that helps, but if not, let us know. Also, if it doesn't work, at this point, I think we'd need to see an actual URL where your button is so we can test and diagnose what else may be wrong.

Thanks,
Alex