JomSocial Facebookwall

JomSocial Facebookwall: In this social world if your web is not connected to

Facebook, Twitter means you are out of the race .With the JomSocial Facebookwall module you can fetch your profile/page feeds in your Joomla site .So here is the complete documentation.

Download Procedure: JomSocial Facebookwall is working in the entire Joomla

version 1 Joomla 1.5 2 Joomla 1.6 3 Joomla 1.7 4 Joomla 2.5 5 Joomla 3.0 When youll download the JomSocial Facebookwall module youll get three zip files (Joomla1.5 + Joomla2.5 + Joomla3.0) use it as per your accordance .Email me sahu.vipin@webkul.com if you have any trouble in downloading the module.

How to Use: This module is really very handy to use you just need to care about four
things. 1 Facebook ID/Facebook GroupID/Facebook PageID 2 Access Token 3 App ID/API KEY 4 App Secret

How to Get Facebook ID for Profile

Login in to your Facebook account and go to your profile page youll get the Facebook ID as per the image below

How to Get Facebook ID for Facebook Page

This part is similar to the above one .Generally Facebooks page URL structure is like this 1 - http://www.facebook.com/webkul or 2 - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Digital-Interlogic-s-r-o/223651924336541?sk=wall So in both the case your Page ID will be Webkul or 223651924336541 as shown below

Or something like this

How to Get Facebook ID for Facebook Group Page

This is also the same as the above on, as shown below

If you are having Facebook group page URL like this http://www.facebook.com/groups/demo-group then finding the group id is little tricky you can find this way open your Facebook group page in any browser and click on view source . Then find (ctrl+F) with group_id, youll get the group id like this

Further Running of JomSocial Facebookwall 4 things is very important

1. Access token 2. App ID/API KEY 3. App Secret 4. Facebook feed ID

How to Get App ID/API Key and App Secret Token

This is the tricky but simple part; just follow the simple steps as below: Step1: Go to this link and click on - https://developers.facebook.com/apps

1. Click on create New App 2. Write Your App Name

3. Fill the captcha

If you dont have apps then you just create App than you find the App id and the secret key. You can see this below.

How to Get Access Token

This is the tricky but simple part; just follow the simple steps as below: Step1: Go to this link and click on - https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer
Firstly you click on Graph API EXPLORER and see the dropdown list of your created apps select your app on which you want access token

And After that click on Get Access Token

Step2: Check the application here application is My webkul host and Get Access Token. NOTE*:-My webkul host is a example you select your created application. And click on rsvp_event , read_stream , create_event.
After that click on the Get Access Token

Important Note*
If you want to get the feeds or post of the Facebook page or group then you can use any valid access token. But if you want to get the feeds or post of the Facebook profile then you generate access token of that particular Facebook account user other access token is not work on the Facebook profile. So when you want to get your personal feeds or post you need to generate access token by your account.

Load Module in the Content or Article

If you want to load this module in Joomla article or content you can follow this basic rule of Joomla: Joomla 1.5: In this you can use {loadposition position_name} eg. {loadposition user201} here user201 is just a predefined position name and module should be enabled. Joomla 1.6, 1.7, 2.5 or greater version: In this you can load this module in both of the way like similar to Joomla 1.5 and {loadmodule mod_name} eg. {loadmodule mod_facebookwall} here mod_facebookwall is actual module name and module should be enabled.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

1 Session has Expired: If you are getting problem like Error validating access token: Session has expired at unix time xxxxxxxxxxxx. The current unix time is xxxxxxxxxxx. , then please use this access token generation link http://linkdoo.com/beta/fbwallaccesstoken6/ or try This access token AAACOajo4J3sBAP5jyJ9PdYsIv1RHuRQBdFZAGsmfYMJZBULyu4DLANg93QHw8Ea7zr3 wPv4TuffAbw0D1DLyZArxpCs9msZD Thats it Enjoy the awesome module in your web site. For any query or doubt feel free to contact us: Email: sahu.vipin@webkul.com Skype: li_vipin.sahu Gtalk: sahu.vipin

MSN: vipinsahu