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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 Everything: 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 utilities
- Integrate MySQL or Data Store data
- Add viral features including News Feed and Mini-Feed stories, notifications and requests, Share buttons, and favorites lists
- Promote your business with Facebook Social Ads, Facebook Pages, and Facebook Beacon
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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 Everything: 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.
With coverage of Facebook API, FBML, and FQL as well as MySQL and REST, How to Do Everything: 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 utilities
- Integrate MySQL or Data Store data
- Add viral features including News Feed and Mini-Feed stories, notifications and requests, Share buttons, and favorites lists
- Promote your business with Facebook Social Ads, Facebook Pages, and Facebook Beacon
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is a guide to Facebook Applications - not just building them. It is in 3 parts... the first is an overview of how applications work in Facebook, which is probably familiar to most people who use Facebook, but still has some helpful information and things that aren't obvious.
Part 2 is about Facebook markup language and API calls etc. It provides a decent introduction, although you would need to have some familiarity with programming - but I guess you would hardly be developing a Facebook app if you didn't. At this point, I wished I had some examples to play with, rather than just reading them.
Part 3 is where it gets into the nitty gritty of actually downloading the client API and building an app. It covers it well, and includes sample code.
Overall, a useful reference, but the first part especially may not be needed if you just want to dive into building an app.
Part 2 is about Facebook markup language and API calls etc. It provides a decent introduction, although you would need to have some familiarity with programming - but I guess you would hardly be developing a Facebook app if you didn't. At this point, I wished I had some examples to play with, rather than just reading them.
Part 3 is where it gets into the nitty gritty of actually downloading the client API and building an app. It covers it well, and includes sample code.
Overall, a useful reference, but the first part especially may not be needed if you just want to dive into building an app.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I thought this book would get straight into developing Facebook Applications (i.e. code/php/mysql) but this is not covered until much later in the book. Still a useful book but the introductory material I thought shouldn't have been included in a Facebook Applications book.
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I was fortunate to have a book published. I am of the age where I would have viewed Facebook as something that my daughters would regard as essential and more their area of expertise. However my publisher suggested that I should start a "Fan Page !" , so I decided that I had better try to get my head round it, as we say up north. Reading this book gave me confidence and also was a fair introduction to the more exciting things that more active businesses can do. To be fair I don't suppose anyone who relies on sales can afford to ignore this medium any more than the young can. One tiny note which is always a problem - this book was written in 2007 and though it does have its own web support page I suspect that Facebook is moving so quickly that printed books - a bit like the electrical shop "if it's in stock then it's obsolete" can soon be out of date. So, the page was up and running in no time and I know that if I keep dipping into this book, then I will understand just a little more, each day. I now even have one fan though I suspect that is just the publisher !
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