Facebook ID

[carloz]

Hi all,

have been looking at outh lib and the status via app code...
i have made a app which lets the user know when he is near a particular location, i am able to launch the facebook page "m.facebook.com" , the user logs in.. now i need to retrive his facebook id..

can anyone plz point me in the right direction on how to do that?

regards
carloz

 

[Erel]

I'm not familiar with Facebook API. However you can probably do something similar to this tutorial: OAuth 2.0 / Google web services tutorial

 

[admac231]

This is much easier than you think!

First, have a look here: http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4android-getting-started-tutorials/14576-oauth-facebook-feeds.html

Follow what stevel05 says about creating an app on Facebook.

Then using his example program, you only really have to change a few things:

1. The parameters at the beginning (app id, secret e.t.c)
2. The data request link. For the users ID you need to use https://graph.facebook.com/me. It's all documented in the Facebook graph docs
3. The fields (in the GetFeeds sub). You want id so fields="&fields=id"
4. How the JSON response is parsed

I have attached a working version of this but please try to follow it and do it on your own first. Copying and pasting teaches nothing!

 

[carloz]

hi,

thnx erel and admac231...i did look up steves post and was doing exactly the same..but couldnt get it to work...

i tried admacs file too and it too wasnt giving me the id... just figured where i was going wrong !!!

the redirecturi was RedirectUri="http://www.chronicles.co.in" , while the if condition was If Url.StartsWith(RedirectUri&"#access_token=") ..all i was missing was a slash "/" in my redirecturi :BangHead:

spent the whole day trying to figure this out ...thnx again

regards
carloz

 

[admac231]

An easy mistake! At least you found it and didn't end up trashing the whole project in frustration.