Facebook Updates FBML-Based Requests Interface
October 12, 2007
An announcement on the Facebook Developers Blog introduced several enhancements to the FBML-based requests user interface.
The first change includes the addition of the condensed multi-friend-selector FBML tag, which must be used included as a child element to the pre-existing request-form tag. This new tag is intended to offer an alternative condensed means of selecting users in contrast to the cumbersome request-form introduced recently.
Additionally, the need for a request-form-submit FBML tag was required in order to submit users selected within the multi-friend-selector. Like the multi-friend-selector tag, the request-form-submit tag must be included as a child of a request-form element.
A brief code snippet demonstrating these new elements is provided below. The output of this code creates the UI element seen in the image above.
<div style="padding:10px">
<fb:request-form method="post" action="index.php" content="hey" type="sample" invite="true">
<div class="clearfix" style="padding-bottom:10px">
<fb:multi-friend-selector condensed="true" style="width:200px" />
</div>
<fb:request-form-submit />
</fb:request-form>
</div>
The announcement also reminds developers that with the introduction of the new request form tags, the previously used notification.sendRequest API method will be deleted in one week.
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