I’m trying to use the Django-Facebook app.
It works fine up to signing in.
Its signs me into facebook and sign me into my app and the relationships are created and I have basic access.
But when I started asking for FB data it turns out there was no access_token stored.
When I investigated further I discovered that when I sign in to my app using django-facebook I’m was never asked to approve permission. It goes straight from facebook login link to facebook credentials to your page with the javascript/redirect login on back to my page.

Could you give me some guidelines to how to move forward. I have set permission on the app but I’m a bit lost to why FB do not bring up the permission page?

Any help is appreciated.

Regards
Joergen

https://www.facebook.com/ILoveDjango

To recreate:
1) log into your facebook account
2) register on fashiolista using facebook connect
3) log out of facebook and fashiolista
4) try logging into fashiolista via facebook connect

Result: “An error occurred with Fashiolista. Please try again later.”

I think it will be a pretty common case where the user is logged out of both facebook and fashiolista and needs to log back in. Since they don’t have a username/pw that they know, they’ll need to log back in via facebook connect. If they can’t, that’s a pretty big problem.

Are you aware of this problem and is there a fix in the works? I’d hate to spend the time integrating django-facebook and have the same thing happen on my site.

Thanks for the demo page and for releasing the code. Hopefully you can fix this problem and become the de-facto django/facebook connect app!

Sorry for the codebase being a bit raw at the moment. Everything you mentioned is perfectly doable with the combination of django/django-facebook and this version of the open graph protocol. Note though that some support for building facebook apps isn’t completely finished in this codebase. (The hashing for safety is somewhat different.)
When I published the code Facebook’s docs didn’t update yet to describe how it should work.

Anyhow, focusing on the user registration part. FACEBOOK_JINJA you should set to False. (That should have probably been a better default for most users, Jinja is a custom template engine, which only a subset of django sites use, since its faster)

FACEBOOK_FAKE_PASSWORD
If this is set to true, facebook users get a random password. (For compat with the default user model). Set it to false if you would rather redirect them to a form to fill in a custom password.

This code is not very friendly yet. Though i agree with your assesment that all the other libraries are broken or use the old api’s.

Hope you got it working :)

PS.
The Profile in user/models.py setup is a default django approach. Probably should have had that as a setting though.

First off, thank you very much for going to the effort of releasing this code; I have been trying very hard to find some up-to-date django/facebook code that works, and think I’ve finally settled on your code.

I am completely new to django and completely new to any Facebook API, and although there seems to be dozens of django+facebook projects, they all either don’t work with django 1.2.1 or are generally broken/undocumented… Most also seem to use older Facebook API’s, although I’d be happy using an older API if it meant I could get some code working :-/

I am wanting very limited functionality from Facebook – just the user’s details for the purposes of authenticating them, and later on the ability to post on their wall. Ideally I want this to run “inside” facebook like a regular facebook app rather than on a separate web site like Fashiolista does, but I assume that won’t be a problem (?).

I have been working through getting your code up and running, and due to some missing pieces of the puzzle (and a lot of missing knowledge on my part) it’s been *really* slow going.. I’m now running into a couple of bits that I can’t guess at and would greatly appreciate your help. I’ll go through what I’ve done so far:

- Downloaded Django-facebook from pypi – noticed there were a couple of files missing from the package meaning that installing it wouldn’t work – downloaded the package from github which only had a couple of missing text files stopping instillation I think (I’m also not that familiar with python package intricacies) – I added a couple of empty text files to the github package and it seemed to install okay.

- Started with an almost complete version of the django poll tutorial as a basis for implementing your code.

- Implementation step 1 (from your list on github): I have no idea what FACEBOOK_FAKE_PASSWORD and FACEBOOK_JINJA should be, so left these undefined, (I think they both default to True).

- Implementation step 2: done

- Implementation step 3: I assume this is all taken care of if I use your connect.html template as a basis? – I didn’t do anything else here.

- Implementation step 4: Eventually figured out that I had to call my UserProfiles class “Profiles”, and it had to be in a module called “user” (I changed my Model name and changed “from user ….” to “from gec ….” in auth_backends.py (as “gec” is the name of my app). I also found there needed to be “user = models.OneToOneField(User)” in my Profile class (although I’m assuming this name is standard anyway).

- Implementation step 5: Copied your connect.html file into my gec/templates folder (and hard-coded my own appId in it), added (r’^facebook/$’, ‘geconquest.gec.views.connect’) to urls.py, and set my Canvas URL in facebook to “http://localhost/facebook/” so it goes straight here.

To get over some CSRF errors I added “{% csrf_token %}” inside the in your connect.html…I think this is all I did there.

Now it’s looking for a form called RegistrationFormUniqueEmail in a module called “registration” (referenced from django_facebook/views.py:_register_user). I added a form here and put in:
> ip = forms.CharField()
> email = forms.EmailField()
just at a guess, and am now getting an import error “No module named coffin” from django_facebook/view_decorators.py:_process_response, which is something to do with this JINJA thing… I’m just about to try setting FACEBOOK_JINJA=False and see what happens.

Would you be able to brief me on the purpose of FACEBOOK_FAKE_PASSWORD and FACEBOOK_JINJA, and add in some skeleton files for any required files, with the required parts in (for example the contents of the RegistrationFormUniqueEmail class, as I have no idea what fields should be set here..)

Lastly, if you’re reading this thinking “this guy’s on completely the wrong track – he should be using the django-blah-blah-facebook project instead…” please let me know!

Thanks again,

and any comments/help from anyone else are most welcome!

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/

Thanks!

If you want to post to user’s wall try the Python SDK. It might be better to use in many cases compared to JS library.

I don’t get why Fashiolista asks the access for birthday info. I think that this is really big privacy issue as there shouldn’t be a need for that info (it’s a shame that FB doesn’t allow opt-out as it does with email).