Php – External Facebook connect site using multi friend invite, looses existing cakephp session

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I have a facebook connect site. I am able to "login" to my site with the facebook api & fbml. I would like to give my users the ability to invite friends. I am using the multi invite and the form shows up fine.

My problem is once the user either invites or cancels on the page, the request back to my application from facebook, causes a new session to be started.

In the appcontroller's beforeFilter, I have tried to use the facebook session id as my cakephp application's session id, and on return from facebook, use session_id($id) to force to use the user's existing session. However, when session_start() is finally called, a new session id is assigned every time.

Anyone out there implemented cakephp connect website that uses the multi invite.

Note: this is an external application website, no canvas page wanted.

Best Answer

shot in the dark, but what's your security setting? if it's high, try medium. then perhaps your session key won't reset on a subsequent page load.

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Facebook – Way to Remove Invite Limit on FBML Multi-Friend Selector

Is there a way for me to increase to 26? Unlimited?

As Yuliy says, those limits are there for a reason. That's not to say that you're a spammer, but Facebook doesn't know that.

Facebook don't publicise exactly how they determine your daily invite allocation, but it's likely to do with the proportion of invites that are accepted compared to those that are ignored or blocked.

Keep an eye on your statistics, particularly your allocations. (This link will only work for Tivix developers.)

If the quality of your invites is low, your daily limit will be low. Maybe instead of trying to increase the quantity of invites, you should be focusing on the quality. (Sorry for being preachy!) Having more accepted invites will be better for you as well as for those who receive them.

Facebook – Using Facebook API to invite friends

I had same problem. Though it is very late for answering question, it will help somebody. That's why answering this question.

Call this Javascript function when want to send invitations.

function sendRequestViaMultiFriendSelector() {
    FB.ui({
        method: 'apprequests',
        message: "This message is displayed in invitation"
    },send_wall_invitation);

}

function send_wall_invitation(response) {
   // alert(response.to);
    var send_invitation_url=base_url+'send_invitation';
    jQuery.ajax({
        url:send_invitation_url,
        data:{
            to:response.to
            },
        dataType:"json",
        type: 'POST',
        success: function(data){
//            alert("");
        }

    })
}

Sending array of friends invited by ajax and then send post for each friend.

~~I can post on the user's friends walls via the PHP API. Try this :~~

$facebook->api('/[FRIEND_ID]/feed', 'post', array( 'message' => 'test message', 'link' => 'http://google.com', 'name' => 'test name', 'caption' => 'test caption', 'description' => 'test long description', ));

Posting on friends wall is not possible now by Feb 2013. How to post on a friend's Timeline after the February 2013 migration takes effect?

$facebook->api('/[Loggedin_user_id]/feed', 'post', array(
              'message' => 'test message',
              'link' => 'http://google.com',
              'name' => 'test name',
              'caption' => 'test caption',
              'description' => 'test long description',
          ));

But user can still post on his wall and tag friends in post or image.

See :

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Facebook – Way to Remove Invite Limit on FBML Multi-Friend Selector

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