facebook

Here's a bit of an esoteric issue that was a bit tricky to hunt down. I hope that this blog post helps the few people out there that it applies to!

You've got a secure (https) Drupal site, and you'd like it to contain facebook-compatible, open graph meta tags. So, you download the meta tags module and do some configuration magic. Everything looks good until you post a page on Facebook, and the image doesn't work!

Apparently, Facebook doesn't play nice with og:image tags served over https.

Ok, so let's not serve our og:image tags over https. A quick theming hook will fix that in no time:

In Part 1: Connecting Facebook with Drupal, the easy way I extolled the wonders of Facebook OAuth and showed off its excellent API with an example of how to map facebook user data to Drupal user objects.

For part 2, I'm going to show you another side of the API. But before we get started, I'd like to give a quick shout-out to Nathan Haug (@quicksketch), author of Facebook OAuth. I'm about to take a lot of text directly from the Nate's well-written README.txt, so don't be confused by the liberally-applied quotation marks.

There are a few heavyweight modules contending to provide Facebook integration for Drupal. Which module is right for you? Simply looking at the Reported installs and Maintenance Status won't present a clear answer.

Choices

A recent project of mine required the use of Facebook's OAuth service. Here are the three modules that I considered:

• Drupal for Facebook
• Facebook Connect
• Facebook OAuth

Decisions

I installed and configured each of these modules before coming to a decision. Here's a quick summary of what I found: