[Plugin Idea] Passing notification to the Facebook notification stream

lessirey

Its hard to grab people's attention when they are hooked to their Facebook ! Many doesnt even seem to check emails frequently these days.

So.. Is it technically possible to make something like a Facebook app which can transfer notifications from the forum to a user's Facebook notification stream ? besides just sending them email alerts and in-forum popups ?

Iam not a coder.. i can only do little tricks. Just sharing an idea if there is someone around who is smart :)

hbf

the APIs are there. i doubt it's a particularly large effort, though I'm not a facebook fan so I have no immediate desire to take this on.

Basic process as i see it:

Extend User profile to include Facebook user info (or just assume the same e-mail addy was used for registration) find or create a hook on the send email "event" in core --> Probably gonna be some app level tweaks that should be submitted as pull request there. use the new hook to fire a plugin which invokes the Facebook API/SDK for PHP. Format and send text.

Truthfully, i think even a "non-programmer" could tackle this one provided some background in code, and a fair bit of tenacity. The Facebook API looks pretty simple from my 3 minute investigation.

lessirey

@hbf thx for the input.

So its doable I guess, now there must be someone around who has some desire to test his skills :)

Napiee

Yes, I would really appreciate if someone can come up with something as suggested :)