Installing the Friendica/Facebook connector
-1. register an API key for your site from developer.facebook.com
- a. We'd be very happy if you include "Friendica" in the application name
- to increase name recognition. The Friendica icons are also present
- in the images directory and may be uploaded as a Facebook app icon.
- Use images/friendica-16.jpg for the Icon and images/friendica-128.jpg for the Logo.
- b. The url should be your site URL with a trailing slash.
- You may use http://portal.friendika.com/privacy as the privacy policy
- URL unless your site has different requirements, and
- http://portal.friendika.com as the Terms of Service URL unless
- you have different requirements. (Friendica is a software application
- and does not require Terms of Service, though your installation of it might).
- c. Set the following values in your .htconfig.php file
- $a->config['facebook']['appid'] = 'xxxxxxxxxxx';
- $a->config['facebook']['appsecret'] = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';
- Replace with the settings Facebook gives you.
- d. Navigate to Set Web->Site URL & Domain -> Website Settings. Set Site URL
- to yoursubdomain.yourdomain.com. Set Site Domain to your yourdomain.com.
- e. Chose "Website" (the url should be your site URL with a trailing slash) in the
- "Select how your app integrates with Facebook" section.
-2. Enable the facebook plugin by including it in .htconfig.php - e.g.
- $a->config['system']['addon'] = 'plugin1,plugin2,facebook';
-3. Visit the Facebook Settings section of the "Settings->Plugin Settings" page.
- and click 'Install Facebook Connector'.
-4. This will ask you to login to Facebook and grant permission to the
- plugin to do its stuff. Allow it to do so.
-5. Optional step: If you want to use Facebook Real Time Updates (so new messages
- and new contacts are added ~1min after they are postet / added on FB), go to
- Settings -> plugins -> facebook and press the "Activate Real-Time Updates"-button.
-6. You're done. To turn it off visit the Plugin Settings page again and
- 'Remove Facebook posting'.
+1. Visit https://developers.facebook.com/apps to register an app.
+ a) Click "Create a new app"
+ b) We'd be very happy if you include "Friendica" in the application name
+ to increase name recognition.
+ c) Edit your app settings on the setup page. The Friendica icons are present
+ in the images directory and may be uploaded as a Facebook app icon. Use
+ images/friendica-16.jpg for the Icon and images/Friendica-128.jpg for the logo.
+ d) In the App Display name enter the name of your app (this should default to the
+ name you chose in part a).
+ e) Enter YourDomain.com in the App Domain field and hit return.
+ f) In "Select how your app connects with Facebook select "Website" and enter the
+ full URL to your Friendica install including HTTPS and a trailing slash.
+
+2. Enable the Facebook plugin by clicking on the icon next to it's name on the plugin
+ page of your admin panel.
+ b) return to the Facebook plugin page in your admin panel, and fill in the App-ID
+ and Application Secret settings you got from Facebook.
+ c) Click save.
+ d) Finally, return to the Facebook settings page, and activate real-time updates.
+
+3. To use the Facebook plugin, visit the "connector settings" area of your settings
+ page. Click "Install Facebook Connector".
+4. This will ask you to login to Facebook and allow the plugin to do it's stuff.
+ Allow it to do so.
+5. You're done. To turn it off visit the Plugin Settings page again and
+ 'Remove Facebook posting'.
Vidoes and embeds will not be posted if there is no other content. Links
and images will be converted to a format suitable for the Facebook API and