Showing popup in the new Facebook JavaScript SDK

Question

I used to have an href in my website. When users clicked on it, a multi-friend selector showed so they could invite their friends to my website. That was done u

Answer 1

I just do this. FB.ui({ method: 'fbml.dialog', width: 500, height: 300, fbml:......

Answer 2

Yes, finally got the irritating box to resize from the original 964 pixels:

For compatibility (let's hope it will get fixed in the future, or documented better) I still say

size:(width:600,height:500),

but then I break out width and height as properties of parent object, so in the end use:

size:(width:600,height:500),width:600,height:500, ...

And now it's also resizable with the JavaScript library of your choice, that is, here's a sample with jQuery resizing:

FB.ui({
    method: 'fbml.dialog',
    fbml: (
         '<div style="width:480px;border:1px black solid;">A small JavaScript library that allows you to harness ' +
         'the power of Facebook, bringing the user\'s identity, ' +
         'social graph and distribution power to your site.</div>'
       ),
    size: {width:640,height:480}, width:640, height:480
});
$(".FB_UI_Dialog").css('width', $(window).width()*0.8); // 80% of window width
// I'm also sure you could stack this call if you wanted to

Answer 3

The following code works for me, but please note the following:

• The width and height refer to the dialog-box itself, WITHOUT the "faded" thick blue border.
• The width + height appear in the following code in 3 places.
• The COLS and ROWS attribute match the size in the following example - 625x515 pixels.
• Since IE sucks, I had to use jQuery with $.browser to force a POP-UP in IE.

Hope this helps :)

function fb_invite_friends() {
    FB.ui({method:'fbml.dialog', display:($.browser.msie ? 'popup' : 'dialog'), size:{width:625,height:515}, width:625, height:515, fbml:'<fb:request-form action="http://yoursite.com/" method="POST" invite="true" type="DayBox" content="Would you like to check out YOUR-SITE App too? <fb:req-choice url=\'http://apps.facebook.com/your-site/\' label=\'Yes\' />" <fb:multi-friend-selector showborder="false" actiontext="Invite your friends to use DayBox" cols=5 rows=3 bypass="cancel" email_invite="true" import_external_friends="false" /> </fb:request-form>'});
}

$(document).ready(function() {

    /* Facebook */
    window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
        FB.init({appId: fb_app_id, status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true});
        if (facebook_canvas) {
            FB.Canvas.setAutoResize(4000); // Will resize the iFrame every 4000ms
        }
        FB.Event.subscribe('edge.create', function(response) {
            // The user clicked "LIKE", so we give him more coins!
            $.get(href_url, {action:'log_likes'});
        });
        // FBML Dialog size fix
        FB.UIServer.Methods["fbml.dialog"].size = {width:625, height:515};
    };
    (function() {
        var e = document.createElement('script'); e.async = true;
        e.src = document.location.protocol + '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js';
        document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e);
    }());

}

Answer 4

None of the previous answers were working for me. The workaround I found was to do the following:

var uiSize = FB.UIServer.Methods["fbml.dialog"].size;
FB.UIServer.Methods["fbml.dialog"].size = {width:760, height:450};

FB.ui({
    method:'fbml.dialog',
    display: 'popup',                   
    fbml: message
},
    function( response ){
        FB.UIServer.Methods["fbml.dialog"].size = uiSize;
    }
);

Answer 5

Just in case that someone need help with application request and friend invitation here is facebook docs about that: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/requests/ and piece of code that you need is:

FB.ui({method: 'apprequests', message: 'A request especially for one person.', data: 'tracking information for the user'});

Answer 6

Well, after 2 days (because I'm not a JavaScript expert :P ) of reading the open source Facebook JavaScript SDK, I found a method:

FB.ui({
            method : 'fbml.dialog',
            fbml: '<fb:fbml>' +
                  '<fb:request-form action=......',
        });

It looks simple, yes I know, but now the problem is when I send the invitation, I get a new tab opened leaving the "dialog" (in Facebook terms, because popup means another thing for them!!) open!

So I am still struggeling, but I will find the answer!