using facebook login credentials for a website and uploading

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Hello,

I'm new to appcelerator and is working on an RSS Feed with Photo and Video Uploading. I would like to ask how to link facebook log in credentials to a website (the website has facebook profile integration) and upload files on that website.

Thanks in advance

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Your mobile app and the website are 2 different applications in the eyes of Facebook, so it won't matter if you're logged into FB within your app, you'll still have to login to FB with the website. Now, if you own the website, you could easily setup a page or api that is only accessible from within your application when the use is logged in so that images can be uploaded. However, if you don't own the website, image uploading will be tough as you won't be able to do regular web forms to upload images from your phone.

— answered 8 months ago by Anthony Decena
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  • thanks for the reply sir! the website is from a client does that mean I'll ask them some information on how to log in to their database and create a native log in form from within the app?

    — commented 8 months ago by Alvin Mark Navio

  • Yea, the best bet here is to expose any necessary functionality via an api. If you could easily login and post through an api that they expose, then it'll be much easier for you to interact with it via your mobile application.

    — commented 8 months ago by Anthony Decena

  • thanks! I'll try to contact them

    — commented 8 months ago by Alvin Mark Navio

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