Has Facebook confirmed this in any way? Facebook was always one of the most intense and cutting-edge applications in the world, they had big influence on extremely modern PHP things (like pre-compiling etc.); they even use software and hardware that is totally experimental, so it's hard to believe that they DO NOT write extremely modern, clean and maintainable code. By the way, if you want to bash, then bash WORDPRESS. It is open-source but still has horrible code, even after years.
Wordpress's code does not fit ANY modern coding standards. Yes they confirmed it to me at the time that a server was misconfigured and the two files were real. For a good few years you could access the entire facebook source just by iterating.svn directories, since they were exposed (svn checkout vs svn export) and I actually don't think the code is that bad, considering when it is from and that almost everybody at Facebook in those days learned PHP on the job (they didn't hire PHP developers, they hired compsci and other smart people - Dustin Moskovitz was an econ grad who learned PHP on the job). I would imagine most engineers in 2007 had stock in the company and are indeed millionaires thanks to the IPO. Anyways, PHP as we all know and love didn't really come to any form of maturation until 2009 when version 5.3 was released and thanks largely to namespaces, type hinting/casting and mediocre support for some functional programming techniques, we're now able to replicate workflows similar to that of Java or.NET without too much hassle (re: Symfony2). Before that though, a typical front controller for any high-volume site running PHP probably looked very similar to this one so keep that in mind before dragging out your college CS books to comb the code for 'underengineering'. You're smart and innovative too, congrats!
Isn't your golden ticket to economic affluence enough for your ego yet or must you belittle people that are likely more successful than you could hope to be? Moving away from procedural logic and primitive objects over to a full framework is/was obviously the right direction for web applications but I think it tends to be abused a good bit and applied to situations that could get away with far less complexity.
Here are some basic HTML tags you might want to use on your Static FBML custom Facebook Fan Page tabs, or anywhere else you need a quick snip of HTML. Hmmm all I can find are how to change the font size and font color. If anyone out there knows about font style, let us know! In the mean time, maybe what I’d do would be to create an image with the font written out how you want it, and insert that.
You could do it in word and simply take a screen shot of it, or create something in an editor like photoshop if you have access to that. I like using screenshots, they are quick and easy. Then just insert the image? Let me know if that works or if you find another solution! Thanks for getting back to me, Karen, I was worried you’d seen my question and facepalmed in disgust haha My eyes are burning from all the searching I’ve been doing.
I had already considered the idea of creating an image but I’m thinking that may just cause more frustration on my end The tab (More of My Art) from the page I linked above is the one I wanted to use the style on, and it has images as links. Creating an image, of the images, will destroy the links I’ve created. I could maybe make it work anyway, by using the pink background and the text put together as the background, and just insert a bunch of line breaks Hmm, I may do that, actually. I’ll let you know how it turns out.
Thanks again so much for the help. Thanks for the tip, Karen. Although I can’t seem to use the font I wanted, at least it does work, so I can figure something out. Know of a good cursive or neat (read: girly? After hours of trying to keep my text from falling right on the wall of an image, I did use your idea of making an image for another tab, which encourages users to add a fan badge to their page. So far I have the badge on the top left, my image with the writing on the right, and a text box at the bottom, with the code enclosed. As it is, users can copy and paste the code from within the box, but I wanted to add a button to simply copy it over.
Using code I found at I’ve tinkered with it quite a bit in an effort to make it work, but it has me stumped. The button doesn’t actually copy the contents of my text box, and if I put the badge code into the area it creates a second badge on the page. Do you have any suggestions?
Hey Karen, “God Bless You”! I was struggling to spruce up my companies FB page and managed to get some info on FBML, but that’s where I got stuck. I had no idea what to do after I got the FBML tab in place. Thanks to you post here and the subsequent responses and comments from other users, most of my work is done. Now comes the place, where I ask for help on something I have not been able to figure out, yet.
I have an image that I am trying to make as the background of my welcome page, and for some reason it’s just not happening. Please help 2.
I would like the background color of my welcome page to be of a particular color. Any idea how to do that?
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Really appreciate all your help and the questions raised by other users. Cheers, Zam.
Yes Facebook links are funky – I don’t know what you are trying to link to, but if it is something within FB try paring down to the exact URL from your browser – Facebook adds extra code that helps them track where you are coming from, what you were on last, etc. So it’s tricky to get the exact URL. If you are trying to paste a link that is on a site outside of FB, go to that link first to grab it. Also it could be a problem pasting FB links that are not already public?
Not sure what you are trying to link to, or I could try myself? Hi, thank you so much for your guidance.
My question.I have a Facebook Page and have a YouTube Custom Player coded into my FBML box/tab. So my src image appearsyou click on it and the YouTube player appears playing my video. BUT, I’d like to click on the image and have the YouTube player open up as a Pop Up Window (on top of the Facebook window). I know how to set it to open in a new browser window but it covers the current window and is too distracting. After snooping for hours it seems only JavaScript can do this which Facebook doesn’t support.
Thank you kindly! Hi Jaye – Yes, bummer isn’t it. So go into Edit Page, then find that instance of FBML in your list of settings and click Edit Settings by that item.
Facebook Home Page Css Code
It will have Add to Boxes and Add to Tab – just make sure the Add to Tab is checked. Then visit your page’s Wall and click the + button by the tabs and add that tab as one of your tabs on the wall. You can drag it over to be one of the visible ones if you wish. If needed, go back to Edit Page and edit that FBML if you’d like to make it wider or rearrange it.
Hope that helps. Karen, thanks for all this great info! I read and re-read this post and comments as I put together my static FBML page. Like a few of your commenters, I had a hard time getting an img to post on my landing page. No curly quotes, no extra spaces, size was okay per Photobucket. The FB code testing site said the coding was fine and the image displayed properly there, but I just couldn’t get it displayed on the actual FTML page. I tried everything.
When a different photo worked, I know it must either be a size or a link problem. Here’s what I did: 1. Re-uploaded the original image from my computer into a different Photobucket album in case it was a link problem associated with that other album. I manually coded the width and height on the FBML page, even though it was within FB’s new size requirements.
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We just received a tip that the source code for the main index page has been leaked and published on a blog called. There are at least two possible ways that the source code got out – the first is that a Facebook developer has sent it out, or the more likely option that a security hole or other method has been used on either one of the Facebook servers or in their source code repository to reveal the code. The blog that published the code only has a single post on it, so it was created exclusively to publish this code – meaning that whoever is behind this both isn’t taking credit for the hole and doesn’t want to be associated with it. While there is no certain way to verify if the code is actually from Facebook, by taking a quick look through the code and by double-checking some paths that have been referenced, we can say with some certainty that this seems to be both real and also a recent version of the main Facebook page. There are a number of clear ramifications here. The first is that the code can be used by outsiders to better understand how the Facebook application works, for the purposes of finding further security holes or bugs that could be exploited. Since Facebook is a closed source application, without access to the code security holes are usually found through a process of black-box testing, whereby an external party will probe the application in an attempt to work out how the application behaves and to try and find potential race conditions.
In closed source applications it is common that developers rely on the closed nature of the application to obfuscate poor design elements and the structure of the application. An attacker getting access to the source code more often than not leads to further security holes being discovered. It is for these reasons that it is often claimed that open source software is more secure than closed source software, since there are many more eyes auditing the code and obfuscation can’t be used as a security measure. The second implication with this leak is that the source code reveals a lot about the structure of the application, and the practices that Facebook developers follow.
From just this single page of source code a lot can be said and extrapolated about the rest of the Facebook application and platform. For instance, the structure doesn’t follow any object oriented development practices, and it seems that the application is one large PHP file with a large number of custom functions living in the same namespace (they also seem to be using the Smarty templating engine). This leak is not good news for Facebook, as it raises the question of how secure a Facebook users private data really is. If the main source code for a site can be leaked, then it can be said that almost anything is possible. Facebook has become such a success and has such a high profile that it has become a magnet for attacks against its systems. Most large scale applications suffer a breach at some point or another, since the odds are always stacked in favor of attackers, but companies can respond in a number of ways and the hope here is that Facebook will handle this situation gracefully.
I don’t doubt that Facebook will pursuit this case with a lot of energy to both find the cause of why the code has leaked as well as to find who was responsible. They will also need to take some very quick short term measures to mitigate the risk to users since you can bet that right this minute there are hundreds of potential attackers pouring through the leaked code and probing their systems. At a quick glance, I know that I can see some obvious things in the code that both reveal certain hidden aspects of the platform and give a potential attacker a good head start. Update: Facebook have sent us an official response (and Brandee Barker from Facebook has below): “A small fraction of the code that displays Facebook web pages was exposed to a small number of users due to a single misconfigured web server that was fixed immediately. It was not a security breach and did not compromise user data in any way. Because the code that was released only powers the Facebook user interface, it offers no useful insight into the inner workings of Facebook.
The reprinting of this code violates several laws and we ask that people not distribute it further.” It seems that the cause was apache and modphp sending back un-interpreted source code as opposed to output, due to either a server misconfiguration or high load (this is a known issue). It is also apparent that other pages have been revealed, and that this problem has occured before, but only now has somebody actually posted the code online. Update 2: I have posted on how to prevent your server from leaking your application source code.
As I was setting my laptop on the end table, i had my tablet on the keyboard and it must have hit some function keys or something, now the entire page is characters. I have tried running troubleshoot in safe mode, refreshed, view is set to Western. This only happens for my facebook page which is what it was on when it happened, all other pages are fine and I can open facebook in MS Edge without a problem. I even cleared my cache, uninstalled and reinstalled a fresh download of Firefox after restarting the computer. It still does the same thing! As I was setting my laptop on the end table, i had my tablet on the keyboard and it must have hit some function keys or something, now the entire page is characters. I have tried running troubleshoot in safe mode, refreshed, view is set to Western.
Facebook Home Page Color Code
This only happens for my facebook page which is what it was on when it happened, all other pages are fine and I can open facebook in MS Edge without a problem. I even cleared my cache, uninstalled and reinstalled a fresh download of Firefox after restarting the computer. It still does the same thing!