For my invitation feature of my Facebook Connect app I need to be able to tell which invitation a user responds to. I have decided to rely on the Facebook UID for that. How can I include that ID in the url that Facebook generates for fb:req-choice?
<fb:request-form action="#{@post_url}"
method="POST"
invite="true"
type="my_app"
content="<fb:name uid='#{current_user.facebook_uid}' useyou='false' /> wants to invite you to to my_app. To join him simple click 'Accept' below.<fb:req-choice url='http://my_app.com/invitation/?fb_uid={uid}' label='Accept' />">
<fb:multi-friend-selector
showborder="false"
actiontext="Invite your Facebook Friends to shop on Yumshare" />
</fb:request-form>
Notice the {uid} in the url attrib for fb:req-choice. This is supposed to be the uid of the user that is being invited and therefore needs to be filled in on Facebooks side. Is that possible?
The solution I used is not totally equivalent to the above, but close enough.
When loading the page containing the fb:req-choice form, generate a unique token, which of course has to be persisted at that point, and stick that into the acceptance url. Like so:
<fb:request-form action="#{@post_url}"
method="POST"
invite="true"
type="my_app"
content="<fb:name uid='#{current_user.facebook_uid}' useyou='false' /> wants to invite you to to my_app. To join him simple click 'Accept' below.<fb:req-choice url='http://my_app.com/invitation/?token=#{@token}' label='Accept' />">
<fb:multi-friend-selector
showborder="false"
actiontext="Invite your Facebook Friends to shop on Yumshare" />
</fb:request-form>
That way you can track the invitation but only in the batch of friends that the user invited in that action.