Topic-icon Load Facebook Event description

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11 years 1 month ago #52591 by rakesh
I'm new with JFBconnect and I can't seem to figure out how to load the FaceBook event description inside a Joomla article.
There must be a simple tag for this.

Please help me in the right direction.

Thanks
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11 years 1 month ago #52600 by alzander
JFBConnect doesn't currently have Event integration with Facebook. It's something we've investigated in the past, but Facebook has become more and more restrictive through both their API and their terms of service on what can be done with Events on a website. In general, they're actually pretty hostile towards it. About 6 months ago, they removed the ability to create Events through their API.. then, they removed the ability to update events... and more recently, they've changed how the permissions work for fetching information about an Event.

It is something we still would like to implement, but right now, it's a little too fluid to do a lot of development on. If you could explain what you're looking to show, that could help us understand the need of our users so we can plan more in the right direction. Are you looking to just display the name and time of an event from Facebook? Do you need it to all be pulled dynamically?

Any info you can tell about how you'd like to see events work in JFBConnect will help us. Right now, events are not something that are frequently requested, so it's not a high priority for us.

Thanks,
Alex
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11 years 1 month ago #52606 by rakesh
This really comes as a surprise. Since FaceBook is very much about hosting events and inviting people for it.

All I need to have pulled is the description text of an event. Simple static info, pulled from FaceBook when requested. Full description or limited by character amount.

This plugin already pulls all the events from a user extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extensi...y/sb-facebook-events
I just need to pull a specific one.

This really should be part of JFBconnect tho . :=D
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