upploading my pictures to FB gives FB all the rights to ALL the pictures from my gallery. for eternity!
Can you provide some more information on this? What do you mean by all rights?
petterviken
Joined: 2007-04-25
Posts: 9
Posted: Thu, 2007-07-12 06:15
By 'all rights' i mean that FB can sell your private pictures from FB to any company. Maybe they will end up in a commercial? Don't know that much about it, but you can have a look at the actual 'terms of use': http://www.facebook.com/terms.php
Under 'Proprietary Rights in Site Content; Limited License' they basically say that they own all the content and that the users are granted a LIMITED license to access and use the site & its content!
I was really hoping that someone would take the time to take my script and make an application that does what you and I want. If I do it, it's going to take a lot more overhead as far as learning the facecebook and gallery APIs than it would someone else. Maybe I'll make it a pet project or something, but I am starting school soon and don't know how much time I will have to devote to such a project.
Ryan
flur
Joined: 2005-11-01
Posts: 12
Posted: Tue, 2007-07-17 00:17
One immediate problem - and I think this is the same as the last poster - it requires guest access to your albums. I'd like to be able to import selected albums/pictures from a Gallery, but with a username/password pair somehow... Just a thought
soldstatic
Joined: 2005-06-18
Posts: 35
Posted: Tue, 2007-07-17 11:50
i think this app should be able to upload all the photos by a particular author / user, automatically parsing sub directories.
purves
Joined: 2007-05-15
Posts: 14
Posted: Sat, 2007-07-21 04:24
rgranholm, what is the URL to your gallery?
urbanl
Joined: 2006-05-18
Posts: 20
Posted: Mon, 2007-08-06 05:58
Hi There:
I've just stumbled onto the Gallery for Facebook app.
I, too, am experiencing the issue with the drop-down box being devoid of any of my albums. Anything new of note? I'm keen on getting the albums and having everything work.
Thanks so much.
urbanl
Joined: 2006-05-18
Posts: 20
Posted: Mon, 2007-08-06 06:25
Dunno if this helps, but the data folder where the actual images and albums are stored is located outside the web root directory of my shared hosting account (for security reasons). I'm not sure if this is why the albums aren't being found or not, but hope this helps.
urbanl
Joined: 2006-05-18
Posts: 20
Posted: Mon, 2007-08-06 09:36
I've posted this in the Gallery Import forum inside Facebook, but thought this should be here as well.
It looks as if my troubles with getting a drop-down of albums to appear is some sort of browser issue.
I'm using the Mac OS X 10.4.9 on a machine with a Power PC chip. Things haven't been working in Firefox 2.0.0.3, but when I used Safari 3.0.2 beta, everything works nicely.
I know that Mozilla has upgraded to 2.0.0.5. I've yet to upgrade to find out, but will do so soon.
Great app; I'm happy. Thanks so much for the hard work!
P.S.: It might be a little awkward to use at first, especially if you are trying to add new albums. Just remember to look for the Gallery Import tool on the right column in your profile (probably near your "wall"). There's a link that will allow you to add a new album.
myobie
Joined: 2006-05-30
Posts: 18
Posted: Mon, 2007-08-06 13:20
urbanl..
make sure youre using the latest version of the php file.
Ive had times when i get the black drop down and updating to the latest php file has fixed it.
urbanl
Joined: 2006-05-18
Posts: 20
Posted: Mon, 2007-08-06 17:02
HHey myobie:
Which file is the latest? There are quite a few...from the link on the Gallery Import page, to the other link while installing the app, to even the files here. If you can tell me where I can find the latest, I'll download it and give it a try.
Thanks so much for the tip!
gboudreau
Joined: 2006-10-01
Posts: 40
Posted: Mon, 2007-08-06 23:01
The latest PHP is the link that is available in Step 1 of the import process.
- Guillaume Boudreau
urbanl
Joined: 2006-05-18
Posts: 20
Posted: Tue, 2007-08-07 03:38
Greets Guillaume:
Big thanks to you for making the plugin. Been making good use of it today.
I will download the PHP file and install it, though if I'm not mistaken I think it's where I've last downloaded the file. I'll see if the install will finally get the app to work with my Firefox install.
So I switched to Safari and tried it there. It works, except clicking the "here" link makes it so that I have to type in the path each time I wish to work with a new album.
Any ideas?
billyburly
Joined: 2007-08-08
Posts: 3
Posted: Wed, 2007-08-08 02:01
rhughes2270, and all others who are looking for a facebook app that embeds your gallery pictures into facebook. I did take a look at at your code. Was a useful starting point. I ended up looking at the gallery api documentation pages and doing a lot of googling to figure out how to use the gallery api. also thanks to gboudreau. took a few looks at your helper script to help out when writing mine (dont worry, i didnt copy).
so far its working, a few kinks here and there. have some more features that id like to add in.
the one major problem ive run into is that the profile thing is only updated when you go to the canvas page for the app. this is because facebook claims it "caches" the profile pages. basically i need to update it when it needs to be changed. im looking into how to do this.
currently the app needs a helper script put into your gallery directory. im looking at how gallery modules are made and intend to make one eventually to replace the helper script.
this is currently very much in beta. a good amount of changes will probably be made in the coming weeks. try it if you wish. if you run into a bug let me know about it in the discussion area for the app. think i should add a feature. post it in the discussion area for the app. the discussion page can be reached from the about page for the app which is located at http://rpi.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=6413934904. if you feel its more urgent then send me a message on facebook.
some features i intend to add
better profile update method
notification support
more facebook integration
profile (had a problem at the time. one image wouldnt appear. think it was problem with the facebook image cache, will post a new pic one when i figure out whats wrong):
[img]http://media.billyburly.com/fb_profile.jpg[/img]
anyone know about a way to use the gallery api to run some code when new items are added? i need to be able to do this to be able to make a better profile update method.
urbanl
Joined: 2006-05-18
Posts: 20
Posted: Thu, 2007-08-09 22:22
I've tried out the Gallery Embedded app on Facebook, and I have to say that so far it gets my thumbs up.
It differs from Gallery Imports in that, at least for now, it pulls the default images from each album and then allows the user to customize how many it should display. There are separate settings for the canvas (seen by the user) and the user's profile (seen by your friends). You can specify how many rows and columns of albums should be viewable for each area (canvas and profile), and choose the kinda of sorting option you'd like (ie, the most recent, the least recent, ascending and descending alphanumerically). Within the profile, you can choose where to move the Gallery Embedded section.
Gallery Imports' strength is in allowing users to choose which pictures you want to display from your album. Facebook then creates a new album based on your Gallery album, and imports only those images you choose from the Edit Photo menu within the app.
Both of them have their strengths, and it's cool to find them pretty useful if you're on Facebook.
If I have a wish, it would be the ability to import/share albums/images in a Group. I believe, though, that it's a limitation within Facebook itself in that it doesn't allow for such things at this time.
Anyways, that's my two cents. Worth trying out, both of them are.
jacauc
Joined: 2005-06-15
Posts: 13
Posted: Sat, 2007-08-18 07:49
Can you add a version number to the PHP file, so that we will know if any updates were made.
barkbarkuk
Joined: 2006-11-10
Posts: 8
Posted: Wed, 2007-09-19 22:45
Hi, first off thanks to the guys who have provided the facebook apps that are already present. I've used both of them and like them, although I'm probably going to use Gallery2 Embedded a little bit more due to laziness and not wanting to manually pick out photos for upload.
I'm just wondering if you guys are continuing to work on your apps or consider them a done deal? I see that gboudreau has open sourced Gallery Imports on Google Code. billyburly would it be possible to see your facebook app code too?
There are a few extra bits that I'd like to have a go at coding and it would be great to use your code as a base if that's ok? That is ofcourse unless you're already in the process of adding things, in which case I'll save myself the effort.
Things I'm interested in seeing put into Gallery Embedded:
1. Finer grained permissions access for Gallery Embedded. At the moment the user assumes the guest role for getting G2 pictures. It seems like the Facebook API actually provides the user ID so something could be done in G2 to allow mapping this user to an internal user. I know there is already a table for this, but I think it only allows for embedding G2 in one other app (and I've already embedded it in Drupal).
2. Allowing the facebook user to set the root album to pull G2 stuff from.
3. Providing the option to display the full size pics in facebook rather than jumping to the G2 site.
4. Providing updates to the news feed when updates are made.
5. Making it possible for people to tag friends in facebook and have the tags be passed through to the G2 tags module.
6. Allowing photo ratings to be set within facebook.
7. Allowing friends to ask for a photo to be hidden within facebook.
Things I'm interested in using Gallery Imports for:
1. Using the user ID provided by facebook to allow the G2 users photos to be uploaded.
2. Searching for photos in G2 with high ratings to use as upload candidates.
3. Selecting the album root in G2 to upload from
For me I see Gallery Imports as an awesome way of getting pictures into facebook so that everytime someone wants to look at a picture it doesn't mean hitting my own website and using my bandwidth. On the negative side I lose the fine grained access, but sometimes that doesn't really matter. It would be kinda cute if Gallery Embedded could embed pictures that were uploaded into facebook, so if it's in facebook then the image gets pulled from there and otherwise it comes from your G2 server.
The only thing I really really want is the facebook user ID usage in Gallery Embedded and the other stuff would just be cute.
If I understand the facebook API correctly, both gboudreau and billyburly must be running the serverside part of the facebook apps on their own sites which means that everyone who is using the facebook apps is giving them traffic. I figure that for the user ID mapping stuff to work it would be safer to have the server side part of the facebook app hosted on individuals G2 sites. The only thing with that is it's a lot dirtier in terms of set up as everyone that administers a G2 site would have to create their own Facebook application within facebook and install the facebook client on their G2 server. Hmmm.
mariosubramaniam
Joined: 2007-10-13
Posts: 1
Posted: Sat, 2007-10-13 19:07
Hey mate, just loaded galleryembed onto my FB and it is bloody amazing!
Thanks to all you guys for putting this app together so quickly. It will revolutionise my FB experience and make sharing photos so much easier!
joemonster
Joined: 2006-04-12
Posts: 236
Posted: Thu, 2007-10-18 16:00
Thank you guys for two great applications that both have their purposes. I will be using Embedd for now.
It is not working properly, I guess billyburly may be working on it.
Would be great if billyburly decides to open source it so we all can have a peek and maybe help out instead of creating multiple clones.
Has anybody managed to write a facebook app that can import Gallery2 images using proper credentials rather than just the guest account?
Thanks.
highvoltz
Joined: 2005-03-10
Posts: 13
Posted: Thu, 2007-12-20 00:52
billyburly,
I am using your app on facebook. Looks great. Any way to use a SUBALBUM as the default? My photos are part of the main gallery, and would like those to show instead of the whole gallery. I tried putting in my own url, and did not work. This would be a great addition!
Tom
madadamuk
Joined: 2007-12-22
Posts: 1
Posted: Sat, 2007-12-22 14:16
I have tried out all of the imports and embedded apps i have found here, the only one that works for me at all is the embedded one. Although it only seems to retrieve the names of the albums that were last added to, no images actually show up, this is because the albums that they try to link to do not exist. The last part of the album URL is cirrect but the rest is not. (http://galleryhomepage.com/v/albumname) <---- thats where it tries to go to, this is where it should be going to (http://galleryhomepage.com/gallery/v/users/adam/hallam/nights/xmasparty/).
(Those are not my actual gallery links BTW, just swapped out the domain name, everything else is correct.)
Still, great efforts sofar, I personally prefer the embedded one at the moment for not taking the photos off my own site, although I wish there oculd be more customisation on exactly which albums from your gallery were shown as I'd rather not show all the most recent albums etc... Just the ones I want to pick out. Any way of doing this?
Mr Papa
Joined: 2006-07-19
Posts: 14
Posted: Wed, 2008-01-23 05:00
Perhaps I am hoping for too much, but am struggling with getting billyburly's facebook app to work... I suspect that is because I already have gallery2 running in embedded mode with WordPress and the wpg2 embedded integration... I was hoping to get facebook to show the same gallery2 images just like my WordPress does... When installing the facebook app, I just get invalid url error... the helper file has been uploaded...
[edit: Long winded question that I answered in my next post. See below]
jjongsma
Joined: 2008-04-09
Posts: 4
Posted: Wed, 2008-04-09 05:08
Ah, nevermind, I figured it out.
If anyone is using my setup (resized images are public, full size are not), you can get it to import the resized images by changing the following lines in fb_export.php:
Line 72: Replace DERIVATIVE_TYPE_IMAGE_PREFERRED with DERIVATIVE_TYPE_IMAGE_RESIZE
After line 74: Add on its own line: "break;"
The "break;" just ensures it will grab the first (smallest) resize. If you leave it out, it will choose the largest resized image.
Does FB even let you store large images, or does it resize them down anyways? If so, it would probably save bandwidth to make using resizes the default.
Thanks for the great app!
jjongsma
Joined: 2008-04-09
Posts: 4
Posted: Wed, 2008-04-09 05:14
Ok, one more problem. I have to put in the URL to my export_fb.php every time. The help docs say it should remember it. Does anyone else have this problem?
ShortyR19
Joined: 2007-05-29
Posts: 16
Posted: Wed, 2008-04-09 12:07
This is my biggest complaint with the app. If anyone can figure out how to get it to save the URL that would be great.
gboudreau
Joined: 2006-10-01
Posts: 40
Posted: Wed, 2008-04-09 13:13
I added a cookie that will remember the URL you enter, and put it back in the form field the next time it's shown.
I also fixed accentuated characters in the albums list while I was there.
Enjoy.
- Guillaume Boudreau
ShortyR19
Joined: 2007-05-29
Posts: 16
Posted: Wed, 2008-04-09 22:45
Cool beans. That's awesome.
jjongsma
Joined: 2008-04-09
Posts: 4
Posted: Mon, 2008-04-14 16:58
URL-remembering still not working for me. FF 2, Win XP.
gboudreau
Joined: 2006-10-01
Posts: 40
Posted: Mon, 2008-04-14 22:39
I'm sorry it doesn't work for you. It should. URL is saved in a cookie, and restored from the cookie, if found, the next time the page is shown.
- Guillaume Boudreau
Brianthechemist
Joined: 2007-09-24
Posts: 2
Posted: Tue, 2008-04-29 16:11
It seems that my gallery is too complicated to work well with the gallery2 embedded app. (I have many nested albums and this appears to cause problems) My site is http://www.brianthechemist.com/photos
Unfortunately the embed doesn't let you choose the start album. I understand that it would be a bit much to code support for choosing which albums are displayed in the embed, but would it be possible to configure what the start album would be? (even if I have to change the code myself)
thanks
Brian
meetarnav
Joined: 2008-03-15
Posts: 17
Posted: Tue, 2008-06-03 16:11
Hi Guillaume!
Now that orkut has gone the OPEN SOCIAL way, can you design such an application for orkut too...??? Pleaaseeeeeee???
gboudreau
Joined: 2006-10-01
Posts: 40
Posted: Fri, 2008-06-06 00:25
meetarnav wrote:
Hi Guillaume!
Now that orkut has gone the OPEN SOCIAL way, can you design such an application for orkut too...??? Pleaaseeeeeee???
Sorry, but I'm not using Orkut or Open Social, so I have no intention to re-write my Facebook app for those.
- Guillaume Boudreau
wsitch
Joined: 2009-01-22
Posts: 6
Posted: Thu, 2009-01-22 19:15
Mr Papa wrote:
Perhaps I am hoping for too much, but am struggling with getting billyburly's facebook app to work... I suspect that is because I already have gallery2 running in embedded mode with WordPress and the wpg2 embedded integration... I was hoping to get facebook to show the same gallery2 images just like my WordPress does... When installing the facebook app, I just get invalid url error... the helper file has been uploaded...
Hi everyone, apologies for resurrecting an older thread. Mr Papa is looking for exactly the same thing I am!
This is the holy grail for me: storing my own photos locally (done), managing my photos with picasa3 (done), moving selected albums from my local computer to my own server with picasa3 and gallery2 (done), hosting my own blog on my own server with wordpress (done), hosting my own photos on my own server with gallery2 (done), using photos on my own server in my blog with wpg2 (done), exporting blog posts from my server to facebook (kinda done), showing photos from my server in my facebook replicated blog posts (not done).
The problem is the last step. Like most people, my friends are all on facebook. I want my blog posts to be mirrored onto facebook so my friends can see what I'm writing without clicking through to my blog. Currently I have facebook import "wall notes" from my blog RSS feed, but of course the WPG2 tags aren't being recognized or expanded into photos.
So I make a blog post that looks like: "Hello world! <wpg2>2185</wpg2>", which looks like "Hello world! [picture]" on my blog, and "Hello world! 2185" on facebook.
How can I get facebook to understand the WPG2 tags? Is there a better way to do this?
Posts: 14
Can you provide some more information on this? What do you mean by all rights?
Posts: 9
By 'all rights' i mean that FB can sell your private pictures from FB to any company. Maybe they will end up in a commercial? Don't know that much about it, but you can have a look at the actual 'terms of use':
http://www.facebook.com/terms.php
Under 'Proprietary Rights in Site Content; Limited License' they basically say that they own all the content and that the users are granted a LIMITED license to access and use the site & its content!
some interesting linx:
this video is interesting:
http://www.albumoftheday.com/facebook/
"Why Facebook is scarier than Google" by ZDnet:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/?p=1437
Posts: 9
petterviken --
I was really hoping that someone would take the time to take my script and make an application that does what you and I want. If I do it, it's going to take a lot more overhead as far as learning the facecebook and gallery APIs than it would someone else. Maybe I'll make it a pet project or something, but I am starting school soon and don't know how much time I will have to devote to such a project.
Ryan
Posts: 12
One immediate problem - and I think this is the same as the last poster - it requires guest access to your albums. I'd like to be able to import selected albums/pictures from a Gallery, but with a username/password pair somehow... Just a thought
Posts: 35
i think this app should be able to upload all the photos by a particular author / user, automatically parsing sub directories.
Posts: 14
rgranholm, what is the URL to your gallery?
Posts: 20
Hi There:
I've just stumbled onto the Gallery for Facebook app.
I, too, am experiencing the issue with the drop-down box being devoid of any of my albums. Anything new of note? I'm keen on getting the albums and having everything work.
Thanks so much.
Posts: 20
Dunno if this helps, but the data folder where the actual images and albums are stored is located outside the web root directory of my shared hosting account (for security reasons). I'm not sure if this is why the albums aren't being found or not, but hope this helps.
Posts: 20
I've posted this in the Gallery Import forum inside Facebook, but thought this should be here as well.
It looks as if my troubles with getting a drop-down of albums to appear is some sort of browser issue.
I'm using the Mac OS X 10.4.9 on a machine with a Power PC chip. Things haven't been working in Firefox 2.0.0.3, but when I used Safari 3.0.2 beta, everything works nicely.
I know that Mozilla has upgraded to 2.0.0.5. I've yet to upgrade to find out, but will do so soon.
Great app; I'm happy. Thanks so much for the hard work!
P.S.: It might be a little awkward to use at first, especially if you are trying to add new albums. Just remember to look for the Gallery Import tool on the right column in your profile (probably near your "wall"). There's a link that will allow you to add a new album.
Posts: 18
urbanl..
make sure youre using the latest version of the php file.
Ive had times when i get the black drop down and updating to the latest php file has fixed it.
Posts: 20
HHey myobie:
Which file is the latest? There are quite a few...from the link on the Gallery Import page, to the other link while installing the app, to even the files here. If you can tell me where I can find the latest, I'll download it and give it a try.
Thanks so much for the tip!
Posts: 40
The latest PHP is the link that is available in Step 1 of the import process.
- Guillaume Boudreau
Posts: 20
Greets Guillaume:
Big thanks to you for making the plugin. Been making good use of it today.
I will download the PHP file and install it, though if I'm not mistaken I think it's where I've last downloaded the file. I'll see if the install will finally get the app to work with my Firefox install.
Back soon,
V.
Posts: 20
I tried installing the app in Firefox for Mac OS X after uninstalling it. When I was asked to type the path of the export_fb.php file, it immediately took me to http://gallery.danslereseau.com/fb/?auth_token=4ef630ada4f5f9db75fe7ee32445113e.
So I switched to Safari and tried it there. It works, except clicking the "here" link makes it so that I have to type in the path each time I wish to work with a new album.
Any ideas?
Posts: 3
rhughes2270, and all others who are looking for a facebook app that embeds your gallery pictures into facebook. I did take a look at at your code. Was a useful starting point. I ended up looking at the gallery api documentation pages and doing a lot of googling to figure out how to use the gallery api. also thanks to gboudreau. took a few looks at your helper script to help out when writing mine (dont worry, i didnt copy).
so far its working, a few kinks here and there. have some more features that id like to add in.
the one major problem ive run into is that the profile thing is only updated when you go to the canvas page for the app. this is because facebook claims it "caches" the profile pages. basically i need to update it when it needs to be changed. im looking into how to do this.
currently the app needs a helper script put into your gallery directory. im looking at how gallery modules are made and intend to make one eventually to replace the helper script.
the app is located at http://apps.facebook.com/galleryembedded/
this is currently very much in beta. a good amount of changes will probably be made in the coming weeks. try it if you wish. if you run into a bug let me know about it in the discussion area for the app. think i should add a feature. post it in the discussion area for the app. the discussion page can be reached from the about page for the app which is located at http://rpi.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=6413934904. if you feel its more urgent then send me a message on facebook.
some features i intend to add
better profile update method
notification support
more facebook integration
heres some screen shots
canvas page:
[img]http://media.billyburly.com/fb_canvas.jpg[/img]
profile (had a problem at the time. one image wouldnt appear. think it was problem with the facebook image cache, will post a new pic one when i figure out whats wrong):
[img]http://media.billyburly.com/fb_profile.jpg[/img]
anyone know about a way to use the gallery api to run some code when new items are added? i need to be able to do this to be able to make a better profile update method.
Posts: 20
I've tried out the Gallery Embedded app on Facebook, and I have to say that so far it gets my thumbs up.
It differs from Gallery Imports in that, at least for now, it pulls the default images from each album and then allows the user to customize how many it should display. There are separate settings for the canvas (seen by the user) and the user's profile (seen by your friends). You can specify how many rows and columns of albums should be viewable for each area (canvas and profile), and choose the kinda of sorting option you'd like (ie, the most recent, the least recent, ascending and descending alphanumerically). Within the profile, you can choose where to move the Gallery Embedded section.
Gallery Imports' strength is in allowing users to choose which pictures you want to display from your album. Facebook then creates a new album based on your Gallery album, and imports only those images you choose from the Edit Photo menu within the app.
Both of them have their strengths, and it's cool to find them pretty useful if you're on Facebook.
If I have a wish, it would be the ability to import/share albums/images in a Group. I believe, though, that it's a limitation within Facebook itself in that it doesn't allow for such things at this time.
Anyways, that's my two cents. Worth trying out, both of them are.
Posts: 13
Can you add a version number to the PHP file, so that we will know if any updates were made.
Posts: 8
Hi, first off thanks to the guys who have provided the facebook apps that are already present. I've used both of them and like them, although I'm probably going to use Gallery2 Embedded a little bit more due to laziness and not wanting to manually pick out photos for upload.
I'm just wondering if you guys are continuing to work on your apps or consider them a done deal? I see that gboudreau has open sourced Gallery Imports on Google Code. billyburly would it be possible to see your facebook app code too?
There are a few extra bits that I'd like to have a go at coding and it would be great to use your code as a base if that's ok? That is ofcourse unless you're already in the process of adding things, in which case I'll save myself the effort.
Things I'm interested in seeing put into Gallery Embedded:
1. Finer grained permissions access for Gallery Embedded. At the moment the user assumes the guest role for getting G2 pictures. It seems like the Facebook API actually provides the user ID so something could be done in G2 to allow mapping this user to an internal user. I know there is already a table for this, but I think it only allows for embedding G2 in one other app (and I've already embedded it in Drupal).
2. Allowing the facebook user to set the root album to pull G2 stuff from.
3. Providing the option to display the full size pics in facebook rather than jumping to the G2 site.
4. Providing updates to the news feed when updates are made.
5. Making it possible for people to tag friends in facebook and have the tags be passed through to the G2 tags module.
6. Allowing photo ratings to be set within facebook.
7. Allowing friends to ask for a photo to be hidden within facebook.
Things I'm interested in using Gallery Imports for:
1. Using the user ID provided by facebook to allow the G2 users photos to be uploaded.
2. Searching for photos in G2 with high ratings to use as upload candidates.
3. Selecting the album root in G2 to upload from
For me I see Gallery Imports as an awesome way of getting pictures into facebook so that everytime someone wants to look at a picture it doesn't mean hitting my own website and using my bandwidth. On the negative side I lose the fine grained access, but sometimes that doesn't really matter. It would be kinda cute if Gallery Embedded could embed pictures that were uploaded into facebook, so if it's in facebook then the image gets pulled from there and otherwise it comes from your G2 server.
The only thing I really really want is the facebook user ID usage in Gallery Embedded and the other stuff would just be cute.
If I understand the facebook API correctly, both gboudreau and billyburly must be running the serverside part of the facebook apps on their own sites which means that everyone who is using the facebook apps is giving them traffic. I figure that for the user ID mapping stuff to work it would be safer to have the server side part of the facebook app hosted on individuals G2 sites. The only thing with that is it's a lot dirtier in terms of set up as everyone that administers a G2 site would have to create their own Facebook application within facebook and install the facebook client on their G2 server. Hmmm.
Posts: 1
Hey mate, just loaded galleryembed onto my FB and it is bloody amazing!
Thanks to all you guys for putting this app together so quickly. It will revolutionise my FB experience and make sharing photos so much easier!
Posts: 236
Thank you guys for two great applications that both have their purposes. I will be using Embedd for now.
It is not working properly, I guess billyburly may be working on it.
Would be great if billyburly decides to open source it so we all can have a peek and maybe help out instead of creating multiple clones.
once again thank billyburly,
David
Posts: 34
Edit: Spammer dealt with, comment removed
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Spammer Blocked and Comments Removed... *sighs*
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Has anybody managed to write a facebook app that can import Gallery2 images using proper credentials rather than just the guest account?
Thanks.
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billyburly,
I am using your app on facebook. Looks great. Any way to use a SUBALBUM as the default? My photos are part of the main gallery, and would like those to show instead of the whole gallery. I tried putting in my own url, and did not work. This would be a great addition!
Tom
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I have tried out all of the imports and embedded apps i have found here, the only one that works for me at all is the embedded one. Although it only seems to retrieve the names of the albums that were last added to, no images actually show up, this is because the albums that they try to link to do not exist. The last part of the album URL is cirrect but the rest is not. (http://galleryhomepage.com/v/albumname) <---- thats where it tries to go to, this is where it should be going to (http://galleryhomepage.com/gallery/v/users/adam/hallam/nights/xmasparty/).
(Those are not my actual gallery links BTW, just swapped out the domain name, everything else is correct.)
Still, great efforts sofar, I personally prefer the embedded one at the moment for not taking the photos off my own site, although I wish there oculd be more customisation on exactly which albums from your gallery were shown as I'd rather not show all the most recent albums etc... Just the ones I want to pick out. Any way of doing this?
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Perhaps I am hoping for too much, but am struggling with getting billyburly's facebook app to work... I suspect that is because I already have gallery2 running in embedded mode with WordPress and the wpg2 embedded integration... I was hoping to get facebook to show the same gallery2 images just like my WordPress does... When installing the facebook app, I just get invalid url error... the helper file has been uploaded...
Any thoughts?
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[edit: Long winded question that I answered in my next post. See below]
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Ah, nevermind, I figured it out.
If anyone is using my setup (resized images are public, full size are not), you can get it to import the resized images by changing the following lines in fb_export.php:
Line 72: Replace DERIVATIVE_TYPE_IMAGE_PREFERRED with DERIVATIVE_TYPE_IMAGE_RESIZE
After line 74: Add on its own line: "break;"
The "break;" just ensures it will grab the first (smallest) resize. If you leave it out, it will choose the largest resized image.
After adding this, it works: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=105422&l=46607&id=889245284
Does FB even let you store large images, or does it resize them down anyways? If so, it would probably save bandwidth to make using resizes the default.
Thanks for the great app!
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Ok, one more problem. I have to put in the URL to my export_fb.php every time. The help docs say it should remember it. Does anyone else have this problem?
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This is my biggest complaint with the app. If anyone can figure out how to get it to save the URL that would be great.
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I added a cookie that will remember the URL you enter, and put it back in the form field the next time it's shown.
I also fixed accentuated characters in the albums list while I was there.
Enjoy.
- Guillaume Boudreau
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Cool beans. That's awesome.
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URL-remembering still not working for me. FF 2, Win XP.
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I'm sorry it doesn't work for you. It should. URL is saved in a cookie, and restored from the cookie, if found, the next time the page is shown.
- Guillaume Boudreau
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It seems that my gallery is too complicated to work well with the gallery2 embedded app. (I have many nested albums and this appears to cause problems) My site is http://www.brianthechemist.com/photos
Thinking I could solve this problem, I made a dedicated album of links to the galleries i'd like to have in my facebook embed. http://www.brianthechemist.com/photos/random/Facebook/
Unfortunately the embed doesn't let you choose the start album. I understand that it would be a bit much to code support for choosing which albums are displayed in the embed, but would it be possible to configure what the start album would be? (even if I have to change the code myself)
thanks
Brian
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Hi Guillaume!
Now that orkut has gone the OPEN SOCIAL way, can you design such an application for orkut too...??? Pleaaseeeeeee???
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Sorry, but I'm not using Orkut or Open Social, so I have no intention to re-write my Facebook app for those.
- Guillaume Boudreau
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Hi everyone, apologies for resurrecting an older thread. Mr Papa is looking for exactly the same thing I am!
This is the holy grail for me: storing my own photos locally (done), managing my photos with picasa3 (done), moving selected albums from my local computer to my own server with picasa3 and gallery2 (done), hosting my own blog on my own server with wordpress (done), hosting my own photos on my own server with gallery2 (done), using photos on my own server in my blog with wpg2 (done), exporting blog posts from my server to facebook (kinda done), showing photos from my server in my facebook replicated blog posts (not done).
The problem is the last step. Like most people, my friends are all on facebook. I want my blog posts to be mirrored onto facebook so my friends can see what I'm writing without clicking through to my blog. Currently I have facebook import "wall notes" from my blog RSS feed, but of course the WPG2 tags aren't being recognized or expanded into photos.
So I make a blog post that looks like: "Hello world! <wpg2>2185</wpg2>", which looks like "Hello world! [picture]" on my blog, and "Hello world! 2185" on facebook.
How can I get facebook to understand the WPG2 tags? Is there a better way to do this?
Thanks!
Will