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Learning Facebook Application Development
By: Dr Mark Alexander Bain Alexander Bain; Hasin Hayder
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Pub. Date: May 30, 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-1-847193-69-8
Pages in Print Edition: 240
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2.5 [2 Ratings] Subscriber Reviews
Overview
A step-by-step tutorial for creating custom Facebook applications using the Facebook platform and PHP
Complete guide to building Facebook applications in PHP
Fully illustrated with fun, functional step-by-step examples
Covers recent platform additions: Facebook JavaScript, Facebook AJAX
Create data-driven applications, employ multimedia, and more
In Detail
Using Facebook Applications, developers can add custom features to one of the most popular websites in the world. Facebook is the biggest social network among college students, and is gaining ground among professionals too. Facebook applications enable you to add new ways for users to interact with each other using Facebook.
Facebook applications are written in a server-side language, and hosted on the application developer's own server. They interface with Facebook, so that they appear to users to be part of Facebook itself.
This book shows PHP developers how to quickly get started building powerful Facebook applications, how to work with data stored in Facebook, including photos, and how to handle multimedia and other custom data within Facebook applications.
The book covers how to send notifications and invitations from within an application, update a user's profile, create application control panels for users, and much more.
Subscriber Reviews
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"Very Very old" - by expectise on 26-JUL-2011
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THere are things that has been change dramatically, this book seems to be very old and confuse.
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"Great as a Quick Overview" - by hilbertglm on 17-MAR-2010
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I wanted to understand the basic architecture and program flow of a Facebook application. Although I haven't done any programming yet - and the devil is always in the details when programming - I got the information I needed quickly. The writing style is easy to follow and the features and functions were easily absorbed by me as a result.
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