Developing Facebook Application - Nagpur PHP Meetup
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The document provides an introduction to developing Facebook applications, explaining what Facebook is, why developers might create Facebook apps, how the Facebook platform and APIs work, and some of the tools and technologies involved like FBML, FQL, and FBJS. It also gives examples of top Facebook apps and describes common Facebook app functions and components.
![$fql = "Select name, pic FROM user where
uid='100000860190302'";
$fql_result=$facebook->api_client->fql_query($fql);
print_r($fql_result);
Array (
[name] => Pranay Patil
[pic] =>
http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-
sf2p/hs624.snc3/27399_100000860190302_8058_s.jpg
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Developing Facebook Application - Nagpur PHP Meetup
- 1. Developing Facebook Application A basic introduction facebook
- 2. Who we are Abhishek Deshpande Chetan Gole MBA Student MCA Student Follow @Fitehal Follow @_techie Abhishek@whoisabhi.com me@thechetan.com
- 3. What is Facebook •More than 400 million active users on Facebook •People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook •over 160 million objects(pages, groups and events) that people interact •More than 70 translations •30% of Facebook users are from United States Ref : http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
- 4. Why Facebook App. • Bring Existing App to FB World • Campaigning on FB • Building a Brand
- 5. Top Facebook Apps Name Developer 1. FarmVille Zynga 2. Static FBML Facebook 3. Facebook for iPhone Facebook 4. Birthday Cards RockYou! 5. Texas HoldEm Poker Zynga 6. Café World Zynga 7. Causes Causes 8. Mafia Wars Zynga 9. PetVille Zynga 10. Mobile Facebook
- 6. What happens when you access Facebook App
- 7. What happens when you access Facebook App Image Credit : http://www.zilby.com/images/arch.png
- 8. Facebook Platform • FBML / XFBML -Tag based markup language derived from HTML / XML, with some extra Power to play with FB • FQL - Facebook query language - Ideal for querying extra data from Facebook Internal data tables. •FBJS - Facebook version of Javascript minimizing threats of Cross scripting attacks. Supports Most of DOM - Based manipulation Methods
- 9. Facebook API Facebook API calls are grouped into various action categories, each focuses on different aspect of platform. Let us look at some basic ones : facebook.auth - basic authentication checks for facebook users facebook.feed - Post to facebook news feed facebook.friends - query fb for various checks on a user's friends facebook.notification - send messages to users facebook.profile - set FBML in user's profile facebook.events - way to access FB events facebook.groups - access information for facebook groups facebook.photos - interact with facebook photos
- 10. Client Libraries PHP - Easy to use - Officially Supported - Wide options for Hosting Also Libraries are Available for Python, Ruby, .NET, Java & C++
- 11. FBML • Facebook markup language derived from HTML / XML. • To distinguish between HTML and FBML in app code, you need to prefix fb: to FBML tags • More than 100 tags to play with.
- 12. <fb:name uid="1431430963" /> => you <fb:name uid="1431430963" capitalize="true" /> => You <fb:name uid="1431430963" possessive="true" /> => Your <fb:name uid="1431430963" reflexive="true" /> => Yourself <fb:name uid="1431430963" useyou="false" /> => Abhishek Deshpande <fb:name uid="672981152" /> => Chetan Gole <fb:name uid="672981152" firstnameonly="true" /> => Chetan
- 14. Shows Dialog <fb:dialog id="simple-dialog"> <fb:dialog-title>simple Dialog</fb:dialog-title> <fb:dialog-content> This is some garbage content to be displayed. </fb:dialog- content> <fb:dialog-button type="button" value="Okay!" close_dialog="1" /> </fb:dialog> <a href="" clicktoshowdialog="simple-dialog">show Dialog</a>
- 15. FQL • Same syntax as ANSI-SQL • No implementation for Limit, Group by, Order By Clauses
- 16. User Table uid, first_name , middle_name, last_name, name , pic_small , pic_big, pic_square, pic, affiliations, profile_update_time ,timezone ,religion ,birthday ,birthday_date ,sex ,hometown_location , meeting_sex , meeting_for , relationship_status , significant_other_id , political , current_location , activities, interests ,is_app_user , music , tv , movies , books , quotes ,about_me, hs_info , education_history , work_history ,notes_count , wall_count , status , has_added_app , online_presence , locale , proxied_email , profile_url , email_hashes , pic_small_with_logo , pic_big_with_logo , pic_square_with_logo , pic_with_logo , allowed_restrictions , verified , profile_blurb , family , username , website , is_blocked , contact_email , email
- 17. $fql = "Select name, pic FROM user where uid='100000860190302'"; $fql_result=$facebook->api_client->fql_query($fql); print_r($fql_result); Array ( [name] => Pranay Patil [pic] => http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak- sf2p/hs624.snc3/27399_100000860190302_8058_s.jpg )
- 18. Functions (FQL) • now() Returns the current time. • rand() Generates a random number. • strlen(string) Returns the length of the string. • concat(string, ...) Concatenates the given strings (can take any number of strings).
- 19. More Functions (FQL) • substr(string, start, length) Gets a substring of the string. • strpos(haystack, needle) Returns the position of needle in haystack, or -1 if it is not found. • lower(string) Converts the string to lower case. • upper(string) Converts the string to upper case. • strip_tags(field) Strips HTML markup and encoding from a specified FQL field.
- 20. FBJS • <script> Tag is allowed • Javascript/DOM "id" values are rewritten on-the-fly <a href="#" onclick="new Dialog().showMessage('Dialog', 'Hello World.'); return false;"> Display Dialog.</a>
- 21. Developer resources • Test Console http://developers.facebook.com/tools.php • Developer Application http://www.facebook.com/developers/ • Developer Wiki http://wiki.developers.facebook.com
- 22. if (questions) { for Q in questions: answer(Q) } else { print "Thank you!" }