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Facebook API Developers Guide


Facebook API Developers Guide



von: Alan Graham

26,74 €

Verlag: Apress
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 08.09.2008
ISBN/EAN: 9781430209706
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 100

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<p>The Facebook API allows web developers to create Facebook applications and access Facebook data from other applications. <em>Facebook API Developers Guide</em> covers the use and implementation of the Facebook API—what the key features are and how you can access them. You will learn, through practical examples, the main features of the Facebook API including an introduction to the API–specific languages FQL and FBML. These examples are further supported by the introduction of other technologies like language libraries, relational database management systems, and XML.</p>
<ul>
<li>Covers all key features of the Facebook API </li>
<li>Explains the API languages FQL and FBML </li>
<li>Teaches by example, with useful code and tips you can use in your own applications </li>
</ul>
This chapter covered the different parts of the Facebook platform. The main technologies in the platform consist of a REST API for data interchange, a language to querying information from Facebook’s databases, and a language to render certain portions of the Facebook platform to users (FBML). There are additional parts to the language that are more complex, such as Facebook JavaScript, and that are useful, but they’re not a core part of the platform (that is, you don’t need to use FBJS to develop your applications). The chapter also touched on the client libraries, which play an important part in gluing the Facebook platform to your development language. I also showed how to create a basic, functional application that updated the user’s status message. To do this, you used an FBML form, mock Ajax, FQL, the PHP client library, and calls to the API. In the next chapter, I’ll kick things up a bit and show how to develop a more robust, complete application. I’ll not only cover user interface design and development issues, but I’ll also briefly discuss ways to monetize your application and where to go to find help when (or for you optimists, should) you get stuck. You’ll use an RDBMS to keep track of user interactions, track usage with Google Analytics, and set up some useful libraries for code reuse.
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strongWayne Graham/strong is the emerging technology coordinator at the Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
<p>First book to cover the Facebook API</p><p>Facebook is a massive phenomenon, and a huge market</p><p>Assumes no knowledge of the API, readers start from scratch and learn how to build applications utilizing the API</p>
<P>Facebook is a huge social networking site with about 50 million members. In May 2007, Facebook announced that they were implementing the Facebook API: a programming interface that allows users to create their own Facebook applications and access Facebook data. This book takes readers through their first steps with the API, introducing all of the functionality they need to create larger applications.</P>

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