I have been trying to get the Facebook Like to appear on an application. It was getting somewhat stressful because the Like would just not take the whole URL, but would take the base URL.
I started using the XFBML first because the way to integrate it is so nice.
Add
as the namespace and then use
Easy enough. The application used a lot of Ajax and therefore the these likes need some refreshing. To do this I used the Javascript method available
Function and it started working. But the likes were happening only for the base URL and not the href in the fb:like. This is when I saw the statement in the documentation which said 'The XFBML version defaults to the current page.' if href is used.
urghh
I went on to use the iframe way so that I could get likes for the particular URL. It seems its important that the url end with '/' and only then Facebook identifies the absolute URL.
I started using the XFBML first because the way to integrate it is so nice.
Add
<html xmlns:fb="http://ogp.me/ns/fb#"> as the namespace and then use
<fb:like href="http://google.com/" send="false" layout="button_count" width="450" show_faces="false"></fb:like>Easy enough. The application used a lot of Ajax and therefore the these likes need some refreshing. To do this I used the Javascript method available
fb.xfbml.parse()Function and it started working. But the likes were happening only for the base URL and not the href in the fb:like. This is when I saw the statement in the documentation which said 'The XFBML version defaults to the current page.' if href is used.
urghh
I went on to use the iframe way so that I could get likes for the particular URL. It seems its important that the url end with '/' and only then Facebook identifies the absolute URL.
