Facebook Application Tab -> External Linking with PHP

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I currently have an Application on the Facebook Tab, and am wondering if there is a way for me to deep link into an item on that app tab. Example:

User is in the application (which is searching books), finds a book they like, and wants to share it with a friend. They click to share it, and I can pull all the info, however I don't have a deep link so when it's emailed, facebooked, ect.. it sends the user directly to the page with it on it.

Is this possible on the Application Tab? I know on the canvas I could deep link fine... but looking for a way to do it on the App Tab.

Thank you for your thought and responses.

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4 Answers

So far, we have not been able to deep link to an application Tab using URL parameters.

We are able to retrieve window.location information from an application page (e.g. http://apps.facebook.com/testapp/foo?bar=bar)

This does not work on an app Tab (e.g. http://www.facebook.com/testpage?v=app_1234&bar=bar)

Similarly, we cannot use $_GET['foo'] to try to grab it server-side if we are in a Facebook tab.

If anyone has managed to get around this, I'd love to know the solution.

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