facebook app displaying username in a textbox

[william232]

Hi all,

I am currently developing an application for my face book and for some reason i get the weird thing in and around my textbox you can see what i mean looking at



See where the textbox that has fb name in it then next to it is "/> how can i get rid of that and get the name of the user appear in the textbox?

This is my code for my username being dispalyed.

<input type="text" name="fuser" value="<?php echo $F_user;?>"><?php

and the code of $F_user is

$F_user='<fb:name uid="$fb_users" useyou="false" firstnameonly="true" linked="false"/>'; 

So what is causing this problem?

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks,William

[gRoberts]

Can you echo it on the page without the text box? It could be that Facebook only renders it when its an actual element instead of a value.

[william232]

yea i did that by going echo $f_user; but that works not sure do you think it has somthing to do with the faceboook framework? i could turn $f_user into a global variable it could fix my issue but why doesnt facebook like what i have done?

[gRoberts]

whether you store it in a php variable or not, it's not actually PHP that renders the document. The facebook code does a global find and replace on your page.

If you simply put

<fb:name uid="$fb_users" useyou="false" firstnameonly="true" linked="false"/>

on a page outside of any other html element, i.e. in a P tag. What does it display? A text box, the actual user's name or something else?

It's likely that facebook's code checks to see if the above code is within an element or not and decides whether or not to render it.

[william232]

The users actual name because it has worked b4 so not sure why when i echo the variable it shud shudnt it?

[gRoberts]

the variable simply holds the text '<fb:name ' so it wouldn't make any difference.

When facebook reads your page, it has rendered the php already. then facebook parses your <fb code afterwards.