Comments on: Facebook -> Wordpress: fotobook, automatic update

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By: chris.alex.thomas

chris.alex.thomas — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:39:16 +0000

hi bregt,

sorry but I don’t use the cron job, I rewrote part of the code so that I never need to use it anymore, you’ll have to ask someone else…

By: Bregt

Bregt — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:24:27 +0000

@ Aaron: What’s your “command to run”-line on the cronpage?

/usr/local/bin/php /home/xxxxxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/fotobook/cron.php?secret==xxxxx&update

won’t work for me: error with the arguments…

I Hope you can help? Thx!

By: chris

chris — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:26:23 +0000

sorry if the method doesnt exist, I can’t help you, it exists in the version I downloaded from the website, so I can only imagine you are making a mistake somewhere, try reading the information again and starting from scratch to see if that helps.

By: Shovan

Shovan — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:06:53 +0000

cannot find ‘function fb_display_main()’

By: chris

chris — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:13:53 +0000

Hi Aaron,

the reason for the hack is that my host doesnt allow anyone to touch the cron, so my assumption was that because I am not allowed to set cron jobs, the functionality won’t work.

therefore I had to setup a system where it would every 500 seconds update the photos, I could put it higher, but I just chose to set it a little lower because I was testing it out.

although this only affects the page that shows the albums, so it’s not very intrusive even if it does cause any delay, on my host, there is almost no difference between an update refresh and a non-update refresh of the page, perhaps facebook is fast enough when it comes to 1-2 accounts, but perhaps it’s a larger delay when you start putting 50 accounts?

although I dont think fotobook can do multiple accounts without the previous hack I did anyway, right? it’s for one account only? is that right?

chris

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:06:53 +0000

Automatic updates are possible without this hack using a cron job, which is preferred since it’s done in the background. The cron URL is shown on the bottom of the Fotobook Options page. Using this method your users will have about a 5-20 second delay loading your site every 500 seconds, depending on how many accounts and albums you are pulling.

By: dean

dean — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:47:11 +0000

thanks I used your other fan page hack too. you rawk!