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Facebook Connect for web2py
Even though web2py has support for building facebook applications, we didn’t have a way to use Facebook Connect.
I’ve studied many ways (like Facebook’s Javascript API) and checked other frameworks (Rails and Django) and after 4 hours I made a patch to facebook.py that enables web2py (and I’m sure that other python frameworks can use - like webpy) to use Facebook Connect by doing this:
def index():
connected = facebook_connect(request, facebook_settings)
if connected:
user = get_facebook_user(request.facebook)
response.flash = "Hello ", user
return dict(api_key=facebook_settings.FACEBOOK_API_KEY)
Just one line of code and you are done!
You can check a live example here and grub the code from github
