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Comment on Nokia E71 NAM First Impressions by Nokia E71 NAM Real World Usage Review « Dented Reality

Nokia E71 NAM Real World Usage Review « Dented Reality — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:00:37 +0000

[...] I’m going to bullet-point my observations/comments for brevity’s sake, and as with my initial review, any comparisons made here are as compared to my Nokia [...]

Comment on Why Are You Still Paying for Cable TV? by James

James — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:41:27 +0000

I'm with you 100%. We got rid of cable about six months ago, and don't miss it a bit. Why pay for 100s of channels you'll never watch? We're using Hulu, Boxee, iTunes and Netflix on a MacBook tethered to the TV. We watch Netflix bluray disks on our Playstation and Netflix instant watch on our XBox.

Comment on HOWTO: Implement Facebook Connect on WordPress (in reality) by J. Hai

J. Hai — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:15:46 +0000

Something like this, Beau?
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get...

comment_author_email returns the comment author's email. Question: How do you strip out the @facebook.com to return just the uid?

Comment on Why Are You Still Paying for Cable TV? by Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:15:18 +0000

Good for you James, and sounds like you've got a nice collection of replacement systems anyway! I've been trying out Boxee a little bit but haven't fallen in love with it just yet. I find the UI a bit clunky for some things, and I guess because I haven't bothered putting my own media into it yet, it doesn't offer me too much. Might have to give it another shot.

Comment on HOWTO: Implement Facebook Connect on WordPress (in reality) by Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:21:24 +0000

Logan (and Rebecca) - I believe the problem you're seeing is because of duplicate IDs within your document. The Javascript code that handles the FB Connect comments has to grab some details and update the hidden comment form right before it's submitted so that WordPress can get the details it needs. It does that based on the ID of the form fields ().

In your cases, you have other elements/tags on the page that have the same ID has these form fields (name, url, email) and so when the JS tries to update them, it fails, and so WP complains that those values weren't filled out properly. Technically, it's invalid markup to have more than one element on a page with the same ID, so you should locate and rename the other ones, and that should fix the problem.

Hope that works - good luck!

Comment on HOWTO: Implement Facebook Connect on WordPress (in reality) by Logan Leger

Logan Leger — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:04:49 +0000

Beau, this is happening to me as well.

Comment on HOWTO: Implement Facebook Connect on WordPress (in reality) by Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:10:16 +0000

While I haven't actually implemented this anywhere or tried it, yes, that was my theory/plan. The user ID is stored as the "username" component of the email address stored for the comment, so it should be trivial to get that back, and use it as the uid in the tag. You'd need to look at some of the WordPress-specific functions to see how to get the email address of a comment author, and then get just the uid part from that. If I get a chance I'll post an update with more details.

Comment on HOWTO: Implement Facebook Connect on WordPress (in reality) by J. Hai

J. Hai — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:43:26 +0000

Could you explain in a little more detail how this could be done? Does it involve modifying this:
""
–where the id of the user who posted the comment is used in place of 'loggedinuser'? If so, what should be used to call up the correct uid? Sorry if my terminology is off; I'm not a PHP developer, just trying to hack something together. Thanks!

Comment on HOWTO: Implement Facebook Connect on WordPress (in reality) by Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:01:28 +0000

Haha, each time I get a little bit closer but then something else comes up. So, I changed the DIV tags and that made the Name/Email/Website box disappear and the FB logged in user appear. Very cool. Except now when I try to type in a comment as a FB user, and click submit, a Wordpress page comes up and says -

Error: please fill the required fields (name, email).

Comment on HOWTO: Implement Facebook Connect on WordPress (in reality) by Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:31:43 +0000

That's because of where you've put the comment-user-details DIV. Everything inside that DIV will disappear/be hidden, so you only want it wrapped around the fb:login-button and the fields that the user would otherwise fill in (name/email/url). Also make sure it's not outside the FORM tag as that could prevent comments from being submitted properly.

Comment on HOWTO: Implement Facebook Connect on WordPress (in reality) by Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:13:57 +0000

Awesome! That worked. But now when I'm connected with Facebook, my comment box disappears along with the name/email/website box. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Comment on HOWTO: Implement Facebook Connect on WordPress (in reality) by Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:56:52 +0000

You have "modite.com/blog/xd_receiver.htm" set as your xd_recevier location, but you need it to be something (ideally) like "/xd_receiver.htm", and then put the file in the root/base of your domain (e.g. not in your /blog/ directory, but one up from there, so it's accessible at http://modite.com/xd_receiver.htm

Comment on HOWTO: Implement Facebook Connect on WordPress (in reality) by Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:56:28 +0000

Sorry, I just changed the callback url to http://modite.com/blogand checked everything and now it lets me login, but then again, nothing happens and it redirects me back to my 404 page… Hm.

Comment on HOWTO: Implement Facebook Connect on WordPress (in reality) by Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:33:18 +0000

Hi,

I'm really hoping that you can help me. I've spent several hours now trying to make this work. First, I tried to add the code from the FB Wiki and got the following message - -

Invalid Argument
The Facebook Connect cross-domain receiver URL (http://modite.com/blog/2008/11/20/careers-are-lik...must have the application's callback url (http://www.modite.com/blog)as a prefix. You can configure the callback url in the application's settings

Then I took all that code out and tried to follow your instructions. It seemed to work and I logged into FB and hit connect and nothing happened. Now when I go to the comments section and try to click on the FB Connect icon nothing happens.

I'm not super savvy, but I think I'm doing everything right… I'm trying to get this implemented by Monday and any advice/input you have would be great.

Thanks so much!

Comment on HOWTO: Implement Facebook Connect on WordPress (in reality) by Sean

Sean — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:52:51 +0000

Wow nevermind I am a tool and can't RTFM…

Comment on HOWTO: Implement Facebook Connect on WordPress (in reality) by Sean

Sean — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:51:21 +0000

So when I go into create the one line story template, I copy and paste your exact code, then I get the following error:
Supplied template data does not cover the following tokens [blog, post] needed for template '{*actor*} commented on the {*blog*} post {*post*}.'

Any ideas?

Comment on HOWTO: Implement Facebook Connect on WordPress (in reality) by Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:11:46 +0000

Well I haven't needed to do that, but it shouldn't be too hard to duplicate most of the code above into the sidebar somewhere. Doing it as a true widget would require creating a WP plugin though, which was actually something I was trying to avoid, since it seemed like overkill for this.

Comment on Apple MacBook Pro Dead Battery Problem by Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:48:04 +0000

Do you have AppleCare? Those numbers would seem to indicate that you should get hardly any battery life at all. Obviously not much good for you. I'd suggest just buying a new battery, but if you've already replaced it once, then I wonder if that will even fix anything?

Comment on Apple MacBook Pro Dead Battery Problem by Steve Tsai

Steve Tsai — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:51:30 +0000

I replaced the MBP battery from Apple already last year, but I still get the following power information right now. Apple does not fix the problem.

Charge Information:
Charge remaining (mAh):548
Fully charged:No
Charging:Yes
Full charge capacity (mAh):945
Health Information:
Cycle count:19
Condition:Check battery

Comment on HOWTO: Implement Facebook Connect on WordPress (in reality) by Cotton Rohrscheib - Blog Archive » Beau Lebens Facebook Connect

Cotton Rohrscheib - Blog Archive » Beau Lebens Facebook Connect — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:29:15 +0000

[...] have been talking w/ Beau Lebens today after reading his How To blog post on Dented Reality discussing his variation of the Facebook Connect application and after testing it today, it’s a very clean plug-in and it [...]