fabEE is ready
Welcome back! This blog post title says it all really, fabEE for ExpressionEngine 1.x is finally ready. We’re just sorting out the store and dealing with some last minute details.
So, what’s been happening? Well, we’ve rewritten fabEE again (pretty much from scratch). This was due to the significant changes within Facebook in the past few months. The most obvious change is the way the publishing to Facebook now works; it uses the new(ish) Stream Publish method that now makes the whole process more straightforward. This method will also update a commenter’s Facebook status as well as post the content (as well as a link back) to their stream. This also means that your users now have to give specific permission to both receive email from your fabEE site as well as permission to post back to their stream – you’ll notice a little permission status under your login if you connect to this site using Facebook. The other significant change is that fabEE is now just an extension, there is no module component.
fabEE is now a development platform. For those who wish to build upon it there is a PHP global object that can be used to call any of the appropriate Facebook Platform or Connect methods. In addition there are two extension hooks that you can use to fundamentally change the way that fabEE works when a Facebook user authorises or deauthorises your site. In the download package is an example plugin that shows you how to use the global object. The plugin will list all of a Facebook user’s friends who are also members of your site.
We’ve been running a closed beta for a while and we now think it’s pretty stable. However, since there are a multitude of variables (browsers, browser extensions, EE extensions, template setups) that could affect its operation, we fully expect that there might be a few teething problems. Support for fabEE will be either via email or via Get Satisfaction.
And finally, we’ve fixed the price for fabEE 1.x at $59.95.
Comments
Can’t begin to say how excited I am about this being released! This will make a great number of my clients very, VERY happy. Now if only we could just as easily publish content to Fan Pages from the originating site… :D
Bobby
24 December, 2009
What will the FabEE 2.0 price be?
Greg Salt
24 December, 2009
fabEE 2.0 is not ready yet therefore no decision has been made on pricing.
Mike Verbruggen
24 December, 2009
Nice work! Now i have to create a project to test this out.
Joe Stevens
24 December, 2009
This is awesome. Congrats!!!! Will be buying soon.
Any road map for Expression Engine 2.0, hahahahah just kidding.. kind of.
Greg Salt
24 December, 2009
Hehehe. We’ve learnt our lesson. No predictions. All I will say is that we’re working on it!
Nikki Pilkington
24 December, 2009
Woohoo! Fabby! Looking forward to seeing it in action.
Richard Frank
25 December, 2009
Congrats Greg, this is awesome. I’ll definitely be picking up one of these!
Rami Grossman
11 January, 2010
WOW, that’s great!
John Murmann
3 May, 2010
Trying to get to work on my website!
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