Are multiple Facebook Tabs available without installing another site?

Christian,
We get the request about every 4-5 months (which actually makes it a not common request) to support multiple Pages. It's still not something we support in JFBConnect because it's tedious to manage. Each Page Tab requires it's own Application ID, which means JFBConnect would have to manage all that stuff. It's simply not requested enough for us to implement a great management system to do that right now.

However, if you're interested in making some code changes, we can help guide you in what you'd need to edit to hard-code some API/Secret keys into our Page Tab stuff along with the URLs that the user should go to. It will take a little bit of work, but shouldn't be overly difficult.. if you're not too scared of some PHP

Thanks,
Alex

Oh, yeah, the alternative is to create multiple Joomla sub-sites, like you mentioned.

Alex

Actually, the more I think about it, I don't think you'll need to make any code changes as long as you're not using a custom template for each Page Tab. If not, what I'd recommend trying is simply creating the Apps in Facebook, manually setting the Page Tab and Secure Page Tab URLs to the full URLs on your site that you want to load and then installing those apps into your Facebook Page tabs areas.

The main reason code would be required is for JFBConnect to 'detect' that a specific Page Tab / Application was loaded and do something differently (like load a different template). If you're not needing that feature, you likely shouldn't need any code. Either way, creating the Apps and setting up the Page Tab URLs would be the first step in the process so that you can test and see what happens, but I think it should work.

Let me know if you have any questions about how to do what I said above. You won't be able to use Autotune to configure the other Apps, but there isn't much to configure about them.

I hope that helps,
Alex

You can't link Canvas Apps to a Facebook Page. The Page Tab is all that can be added to your Page. An App can have both a Canvas and a Page Tab, but the Page will only be able display the Page Tab.

Canvas areas are meant to be be linked to directly and aren't associated with Facebook Pages in any way.

I hope that helps explain, though it can be very confusing.

Thanks,
Alex