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How to Do Everything: Facebook Applications
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Create your own Facebook applications!With coverage of Facebook API, FBML, and FQL as well as MySQL and REST, How to Do Facebook Applications is a clear, start-to-finish guide to developing unique apps that run on Facebook Platform. Learn how to integrate Facebook applications with websites, blogs, and databases, and use your apps to sell a product and market a business, organization, or cause. You'll also discover how to provide entertainment and information to users while creating an advertising platform to make money. Get started quickly by downloading a pre-built, customizable Facebook application from the book's Facebook Page.
Understand the Facebook Platform architecture
Format Web pages and manage data using XML, XHTML, and CSS
Use PHP and FBML (Facebook Markup Language)
Work with the Facebook object, Facebook REST object, and Facebook API
Use FQL (Facebook Query Language), Mock-AJAX, FBJS (Facebook JavaScript), and Facebook Mobile
Master the Facebook Developer Application
Design your application interface and implement utilitiesIntegrate MySQL or Data Store data
Add viral features including News Feed and Mini-Feed stories, notifications and requests, Share buttons, and favorites listsPromote your business with Facebook Social Ads, Facebook Pages, and Facebook Beacon
Create your own Facebook applications!With coverage of Facebook API, FBML, and FQL as well as MySQL and REST, How to Do Facebook Applications is a clear, start-to-finish guide to developing unique apps that run on Facebook Platform. Learn how to integrate Facebook applications with websites, blogs, and databases, and use your apps to sell a product and market a business, organization, or cause. You'll also discover how to provide entertainment and information to users while creating an advertising platform to make money. Get started quickly by downloading a pre-built, customizable Facebook application from the book's Facebook Page.
Understand the Facebook Platform architecture
Format Web pages and manage data using XML, XHTML, and CSS
Use PHP and FBML (Facebook Markup Language)
Work with the Facebook object, Facebook REST object, and Facebook API
Use FQL (Facebook Query Language), Mock-AJAX, FBJS (Facebook JavaScript), and Facebook Mobile
Master the Facebook Developer Application
Design your application interface and implement utilitiesIntegrate MySQL or Data Store data
Add viral features including News Feed and Mini-Feed stories, notifications and requests, Share buttons, and favorites listsPromote your business with Facebook Social Ads, Facebook Pages, and Facebook Beacon
- GenresProgrammingNonfiction
352 pages, Paperback
First published February 11, 2008
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September 12, 2008
I took this book out of the library and had to re-new it 2 times and still did not have a chance to finish it. But it was pretty well written for a programming book and gave me a lot of information on facebook that I was not aware of from a user's prepesctive.
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