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PublisherApress L. P.

ISBN-101430209690

ISBN-139781430209690

eBay Product ID (ePID)64388806

Product Key Features

Number of PagesXii, 100 Pages

Publication NameFacebook Api Developers Guide

LanguageEnglish

SubjectSoftware Development & Engineering / General, Web / Social Media, Web / Web Programming, Web / Design

Publication Year2008

FeaturesNew Edition

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaComputers

AuthorAlan Graham, Wayne Graham

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width7.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal658.5

Table Of ContentIntroducing the Facebook Platform.- Getting Ready for Facebook Application Development.- Learning Facebook Platform Fundamentals.- Building a Facebook Application, Start to Finish.- Going Further with Your Application.

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

SynopsisThe Facebook API allows web developers to create Facebook applications and access Facebook data from other applications. Facebook API Developers Guide 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 ......, The Facebook API allows web developers to create Facebook applications and access Facebook data from other applications. Facebook API Developers Guide 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. Covers all key features of the Facebook API Explains the API languages FQL and FBML Teaches by example, with useful code and tips you can use in your own applications, 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberQA76.625