You can request or invite a user to use your application or invite them for some other random reason (hacked to maybe invite them an event?) using the fb:request object.
For some reason (to be confirmed exactly!), this will not work FROM an application that is:
- Is new?
- Has not many fans?
You can use this in static FBML also! – it seems when you put it on a static FBML it works immediately? (may be issues with a relatively new site with no fans? – this has to be tested!)
INVITE type object:
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1 <fb:request-form action=”" 2 method=”" 3 invite=”true” 4 type=”Sample” 5 content=”Your text goes here. <?php echo htmlentities(“<fb:req-choice url=\”http://www.facebook.com/bulmerspear?v=app_403868158237\” label=\”Authorize My Application\”") ?>” > 6 <fb:multi-friend-selector 7 showborder=”true” 8 rows=”3″ cols=”3″ 9 actiontext=”Invite your friends to use Sample Application.”> 10 </fb:request-form> 11 Or a REQUEST type object: 12 <fb:request-form 13 action=”" 14 method=”POST” 15 invite=”false” 16 type=”mysite” 17 content=”Come and join us. Visit us at http://www.mysite.com/ <fb:req-choice url=’http://www.mysite.com/’ label=’Join’/>”> 18 <fb:multi-friend-selector 19 showborder=”false” 20 actiontext=”Invite your friends to join” 21 rows=”4″/> 22 </fb:request-form>
Request invite form on an application tab looks like:
Request then appears on the users page like below:
Opening this invitation, you get:
