Facebook API's fb:registration returning “Invalid 'client_id'” when not connected to Facebook

Question

I\'m trying to use Facebook\'s registration tool for my website. I would like to allow Facebook users to login seamlessly to my website, but also non-Facebook users to creat

Answer 1

In my case, I was displaying the fb registration link without logging in the user first. After scratching my head for a long time, I asked the user to log in through facebook before presenting the registration form. The error was gone much to my delight.

Answer 2

You might have to configure your application to let users other than the developers to access the app. I had a hard time finding it, but if I remember well, it was a matter of sandboxing the app or not.

Answer 3

Just guessing here - because I had a similar but non-identical problem:

If you use the Facebook XFBML code on http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/registration/ and replace the word {YOUR_APP_ID} by {1234123434534} (or whatever), it fails because it isn't expecting the curly brackets. (Different from various other areas that use JSON and are expecting them).

I don't know if this is what you've done wrong, but it's an easy mistake to make, as I just discovered.

Answer 4

If you registered your application with Facebook they will give you an appID which you will need to use instead of the '123456789' AppID in the code above.

Answer 5

I ran into the same problem, except I had the sandbox disabled already. I had included the script tag as

<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#appId={YOUR_APP_ID}&xfbml=1"></script>

<fb:registration 
  fields="name,birthday,gender,location,email" 
  redirect-uri="https://developers.facebook.com/tools/echo/"
  width="530">
</fb:registration>

as it was on the registration example page, however, the JavaScript SDK page had

<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js"></script>
<script>
  FB.init({
    appId  : 'YOUR APP ID',
    status : true, // check login status
    cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session
    xfbml  : true  // parse XFBML
  });
</script>

Removing the #appId={YOUR_APP_ID}&xfbml=1 from the external script tag did the trick.

Answer 6

For testing set your YOUR_APP_ID to 113869198637480