FaboGallery - Bringing Facebook to your Rapidweaver Site


Showcase your Facebook Photos on your Rapidweaver Site

FaboGallery allows you to bring your Facebook Photos to your Rapidweaver web site dynamically, while keeping them stored back at Facebook.

This means you save on your server disk space and bandwidth, and also saves you the hassle of transferring these photos up to your server again.
Plugin Interface with resizable icons

Features


  • New photos that you place in chosen albums in Facebook Photos will appear on your site.

  • Choose which albums to display.

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  • AJAX-based to reduce page reloads.

  • Album previews are supported within the Rapidweaver plugin.

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  • Dynamically pulls the photos data from your Facebook account. The photos are not stored on your own server, saving space.

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  • New: Retrieves photos from Facebook (Fan) Pages too!

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Benefits
 ◆ Saves hosting space.
◆ No need to reupload photos.
◆ FaboGallery is in sync with what has been uploaded onto Facebook.
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Requirements
  • Rapidweaver 4.
  • Facebook Account.
  • PHP 5, to fetch the photos data from Facebook.

Demos

FaboGallery comes with 2 templates, and you can take a look at what they look like here:

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Got A Question?

FAQs

Why do we need PHP?

Facebook prohibits storing of certain data for more than 24 hours. This means that the fetched data from the Photos app cannot be kept for more than 24 hours.

PHP is therefore necessary to pull the data from Facebook.

Can I use PHP 4?

Facebook's PHP library requires PHP5. They no longer support PHP4, which is obsolete.

Some hosts still run PHP4 though, so if your host is still putting you on PHP 4, let them know that they should upgrade you to PHP 5.

What if I want to add this into a Blocks page, or using @import?

Please ensure that the containing page's extension is "php".

What is an offline session key?

An offline session key is something that Facebook issues to applications. It is not your password and cannot be used for logging into Facebook.
The session key can only be used by the particular application that Facebook issues to, for performing Facebook API tasksœ. In this case, FaboGallery will use the session key to retrieve the Facebook Photos.

Why do I have to log in twice?

When you log in during "Step 1", it's to add the FaboGallery application to your Facebook profile, and also to ask it for an offline session key.

Then when you log in again during "Step 2", FaboGallery will get the offline session key that it needs.

When you save the Project file, your session is also saved, and when you open up the Project again, it will try to resume the session with Facebook.

How do I know if FaboGallery has successfully retrieved my offline session key?

At the bottom of the FaboGallery plugin, there is a status text area.

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When should I *not* include preview data?

When you're done with setting up the page and previewing, and you're about to publish your site.
By not including the preview data, the published page will be smaller.

In FaboGallery, I can't see the preview photos for Album X. Why?

The reason for this is that the requests for the photos from Facebook are put in a queue.

During the first time we request for the photos, some albums may still be in the "Pending" status. Once the information arrives, the preview photos will be available.

What happens if I add new photo/albums in Facebook?

If you add new photos or albums in Facebook, you can click on the Refresh button to get FaboGallery to retrieve the information from Facebook again.

On the FaboGallery web page that you create though, the new photos for the albums that you choose to show will appear, without any effort from you.

Is there a quick HOWTO on how to set this up?

Yes, it's here.