Facebook Friend Autocomplete

A JQuery plugin to add a facebook-like suggestion box under inputs with the currently logged in user's facebook friends.

Installation

include the script after including JQuery along with the css file (or your own):

<script src="/facebook-friend-autocomplete.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/facebook-friend-autocomplete.css">

Also, you're going to need the Facebook Javascript SDK, obviously. You can read all about that here.

Usage

First of all, make sure there is a user logged in. If so, initialize the plugin on your desired input:

FB.Event.subscribe('auth.authResponseChange', function(response) {
  if (response.status === 'connected') {
    $('#fb-input').facebookAutocomplete(function(friend) {

      ...

      });
  }
});

or whatever other way you like, and you're good to go.

Configuration

onpick

The only required option is the onpick handler, which you can pass in as part of the configuration object or as a function as the only argument.
The onpick function gets called when the user picks a friend.
The only argument passed to the onpick function is an object with the selected friends attributes, for example:

{
  id: '100003993588361', // Facebook ID
  name: 'Assaf Gelber',  // Name
  picture: 'http://graph.facebook.com/100003993588361/picture/?width=32&height=32' // Profile Picture
}

showAvatars

A boolean value indicating whether to show friend's avatars in suggestions or not. (defaults to true)

avatarSize

A number indicating the avatar's width and height in suggestions in pixels. (defaults to 32)

maxSuggestions

A number indicating the maximum number of suggestions to show at once. (defaults to 6)

Example

$('#fb-input').facebookAutocomplete({
  showAvatars: true,
  avatarSize: 50,
  maxSuggestions: 8,
  onpick: function (friend) {
    console.log("You picked: " + friend.name);
  }
});

Running the Demo

Logging in with Facebook can only work on one domain per app. I set up the app to run on http://localhost:8000, so inorder to view the demo, you'll have to serve the page locally on port 8000.
To do that, open your terminal and cd into the directory and run: (requires python to be installed)

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

and navigate to http://localhost:8000/demo.html from your browser.
Don't worry about logging in, now one is stealing your identity.

Contributing

Feel completely free to fork this repository and send pull requests. Thanks!

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TODO

• Improve Github page
• Improve demo.html
• Tests
• Take requests from anyone