How to add Facebook show-faces=“true” if I am not using <fb:login-button> tag?

Question

I implemented a custom FB login button and used Facebook javascript SDK, so I don't use

<fb:login-button show-faces="true" width="200" max-rows="1"></fb:login-button> 

anymore. How can I implement show-faces functionality if I use FB.init (javascript SDK)?

Answer 1

I don't think you get show-faces functionality unless you use Facebook's tools, otherwise it'd be a privacy violation. When you use XFBML to do that, you're getting back an iframe which is hosted by Facebook so you can't access those faces.

If you have a list of user IDs who have installed your application, you can simply get their picture via https://graph.facebook.com/<ID>/picture?type=square . Unlike the fb:login tag though, you won't be able to tell who the soon-to-be-installed user's friends are, so the faces you show them may not be relevant.