Comments for Chris Thomas: The blog (18)

Comment on Facebook -> Wordpress: fotobook, automatic update by chris

chris — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:13:53 +0000

Hi Aaron,

the reason for the hack is that my host doesnt allow anyone to touch the cron, so my assumption was that because I am not allowed to set cron jobs, the functionality won’t work.

therefore I had to setup a system where it would every 500 seconds update the photos, I could put it higher, but I just chose to set it a little lower because I was testing it out.

although this only affects the page that shows the albums, so it’s not very intrusive even if it does cause any delay, on my host, there is almost no difference between an update refresh and a non-update refresh of the page, perhaps facebook is fast enough when it comes to 1-2 accounts, but perhaps it’s a larger delay when you start putting 50 accounts?

although I dont think fotobook can do multiple accounts without the previous hack I did anyway, right? it’s for one account only? is that right?

chris

Comment on Facebook -> Wordpress: fotobook, automatic update by Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:06:53 +0000

Automatic updates are possible without this hack using a cron job, which is preferred since it’s done in the background. The cron URL is shown on the bottom of the Fotobook Options page. Using this method your users will have about a 5-20 second delay loading your site every 500 seconds, depending on how many accounts and albums you are pulling.

Comment on Facebook -> Wordpress: fotobook, automatic update by dean

dean — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:47:11 +0000

thanks I used your other fan page hack too. you rawk!

Comment on Eclipse: Activator class is invalid by Milos

Milos — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:45:30 +0000

Mrj81’s solution works fine.
Thank you very much for the tip!!!!!!

Cheers!

Comment on Facebook -> Wordpress integration: fotobook by Tintinnabuleur

Tintinnabuleur — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:19:20 +0000

More Fotobook Changes…

So I thought, there seems to be a lot of people on the internet looking for a wordpress plugin to get facebook group photos. I recently made some changes to the Fotobook plugin to allow getting fan page photos; I;ve now moved onto group photos. This wa…

Comment on Facebook -> Wordpress integration: fotobook by chris

chris — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:20:36 +0000

aha ok, that sounds a little easier than my hack, but I guess it’s all up to you, my hack allows you to have as many fan pages as you want used, I couldnt find a hack that allowed that so I had to program my own.

thanks tintinnabuleur

Comment on Facebook -> Wordpress integration: fotobook by Tintinnabuleur

Tintinnabuleur — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:11:57 +0000

Fotobook Hack To Allow Adding Fan Page Albums…

The fotobook plugin by Aaron Harp only needs modifying slightly to allow albums from fan pages to be displayed. Replace options-fotobook.php in the plugin directory with the one below to get a new section in the menu pages which will allow this. A hack…

Comment on Eclipse: Activator class is invalid by chris

chris — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:26:26 +0000

Hey Mrj81

thanks for the tip! sounds a very handy shortcut!

Comment on Eclipse: Activator class is invalid by Mrj81

Mrj81 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:19:59 +0000

Hey folks: Here is My solution to the problem (I am developing Bundles for Eclipse Equinox(the OSGi implementation)) :

AND THE SOLUTION is V-E-R-Y simple -> just add -dev bin to your Program Arguments under (Run->Run Configurations->”Your_Loader”->Tab “Arguments”)

Cheers!

Comment on Cannot start Eclipse by chris

chris — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:25:40 +0000

javier: how is that a problem though, perhaps I didnt understand your post?