Here is a tutorial about using static FBML (link)

Hope this helps!

I might be a bit over my head here. I’m trying to build profile wall tabs for some clients using Static FBML. I just downloaded PHP5.

I’m trying to understand how this works and based on everyone else’s comments I am a few steps behind.

I am not a software developer. I’m just trying to type in some code and have the FBML tabs show up on the narrow section of the wall.

Thanks so much!

I take it that your profile box isn’t generated. There is some discussion on the wiki page for profile.setFBML that indicates error code 1 means success. In my experience I got a NULL return code.

Do any of the profile boxes update for you?

I dont understand why this code always returns me “1″
(I only have this code in one page)

$fbml = “blah 1″;
$fbml .= “blah 2″;
$fbml_main = “This is the Wall tab profile data”;
$result = $facebook->api_client->profile_setFBML(NULL, $user_id, $fbml, NULL, NULL, $fbml_main);
echo $result;

I use the last version of php and api…

<fb:add-section-button section=”profile” />

Your profile box data must be set up with profile_main data.

Thanks for pointing out the typo, I have fixed it now.

It seems a lot of people have trouble getting profile_setFBML working for them. Some have resolved the problem by skipping the api and call the fbml directly. There is a thread discussing this here.

Please let me know if this helps.

By the way, the return code of 1 is not success, it indicates “an unknown error occurred”. Not terribly helpful but it does indicate something is wrong with your call.

After reading countless tutorials, including this one, I’m still no further to completing my VERY simple app. I must say, the Facebook Platform documentation is very dire. I have been having the same problem as described by many above, where the wall profile box display the ‘no content’ message.

I am using the most recent library (just downloaded it now), I checked the ‘facebookapi_php5_restlib.php’ for the function profile_setFBML and I was missing the $profile_main parts. After adding these in I am still at the same place, with my profile box showing no contents. Below is my code:
$fbml = “This is a wide profile box on the Boxes tab.”;
$fbml .= “This is a narrow profile box on the Boxes tab.”;
$fbml_main = “This is the Wall tab profile data”;
$return = $facebook->api_client->profile_setFBML(NULL, $user_id, $fbml, NULL, NULL, $fbml_main);
echo “set FBML: result = “.var_export($return,true);

I’d like to point out a typo in the tutorial in the var_export, it should be $return, not $result – I have changed this in my code. When I run this code I get:
set FBML: result = ’1′

But my profile box does not change. The boxes in the ‘boxes’ tab change perfectly, but the narrow box on the left of the wall do not. Any ideas?

My comment to Kevin above applies to your question also. You must call profile_setFBML to update the contents of the profile box.