The only field that you need to fill in at this point is the Side Nav URL and this should be set to the same as your application s Canvas Page URL in the base options All you have to do now is click Submit and Facebook will create an API key for you you ll need that and the secret key when you write the code for your application And...
You may be wondering why you need to add another application in order to create your own. Quite simply— you don t use developer to create your application— you use the developer application to add yours into Facebook. So start by going to the developer s page remember that you ll find a link at the bottom of every Facebook page or you...
Setting Up Your Application If you click on Developer in your left-hand side navigation pane you ll see a button to Set Up New Application You ll now find that you need to type in details about your application obviously . Some fields are required while others are optional. We ll deal with the required fields first. Required Fields Don t...
If you re going to build a Facebook application then you re going to need access to the Facebook API and to do that you ll have to download the client libraries onto your server. In order to do this you ll need to go to the developers page— remember that you can use the URL http developers.facebook.com or use the link given at the bottom...
It may interest you to know that the information that you can obtain from Facebook is actually stored in a database and that s where FQL comes in. So instead of using the API methods we can query the tables in the database to obtain the information that we require. For example if you want the first name surname and birthday of each of your...
FBML as mentioned previously is the Facebook Markup Language. If you ve used HTML in web pages then you ll have no problem with FBML. Even if you ve not used HTML ever you ll still have no problems with FBML. It can be used to format your information just like HTML but it also does a lot more than just formatting as we ll soon see by looking at...
If you ve read even this far then it s safe for me to assume that you re already well acquainted with Facebook and given the name of this book it s also fairly safe to assume that you don t want an in-depth discussion on how to use Facebook— you just want to get on with building a Facebook application. So that s exactly what we re going to...
There are three elements to the Facebook Platform The Facebook API Application Programming Interface FBML— Facebook Markup Language FQL— Facebook Query Language We ll now spend some time with each of these elements and you ll see how you can use them individually and in conjunction to make powerful yet simple applications....
Learning Facebook Application Development Hasin Hayder Dr. Mark Alexander Bain About the Authors Hasin Hayder graduated in Civil Engineering from the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology RUET in Bangladesh. He is a Zend-certified Engineer and expert in developing localized applications. He is currently working as a Technical Director...
This tutorial shows how to handle strings in PHP different output methods functions and the significance of using each of them.  A string can be literally expressed in the following ways in PHP 1. Single Quoted 2. Double Quoted 3. HEREDOC 4. NOWDOC from ver. PHP 5.3.0 Different methods used to handle strings are 1. Print 2. Echo 3....
What is a Cookie A cookie is flat file based system used to represent a user of the website. It is stored on the local computer of the user. When you visit a website a cookie may be set to represent the user. Next time he visits the website he does not need to identify himself manually; instead the cookie will represent him on that website. With...
This tutorial will demonstrate how to implement a user login membership system in your website.  Though implementing login membership system appears to be a herculean task it is actually lot more simpler than you think. In fact all you need is a single table in your database and a PHP-supported Server.  To begin with here is an outline...
WAMP SERVER WAMP is an acronym for Windows Apache MySQL and PHP. It is a combination of independently created software’ s bundled together into a SINGLE installation package to set up a SERVER on your machine with out any hassles. It comes with the GPL License. Apache HTTP Server Widely know as Apache Server is the most widely used webserver...
jQuery Reference Guide by Jonathan Chaffer and Karl Swedberg A Comprehensive Exploration of the Popular JavaScript Library jQuery Reference Guide http www.packtpub.com jquery-reference-guide-Open-Source book Anatomy of a jQuery Script He s got a brand new start Now he s a happy guy...
jQuery Table Row Finished Code The Finished Code Our second example page has demonstrated table row striping highlighting tooltips collapsing expanding and filtering. Taken together the JavaScript code for this page is geshibot lang php" document .ready function var highlighted ; var column 3; var positionTooltip...
jQuery Expanding and Collapsing Table Rows The expanding and collapsing behavior added earlier also conflicts with our filters. If a section is collapsed and a new filter is chosen then the matching items are displayed even if in the collapsed section. Conversely if the table is filtered and a section is expanded then all items in the expanded...
jQuery Interacting with Other Code We learned with our sorting and paging code that we can t treat the various features we write as islands. The behaviors we build can interact in sometimes surprising ways; for this reason it is worth revisiting our earlier efforts to examine how they coexist with the new filtering capabilities we have added. Row...
jQuery Collecting Filter Options from Content Now we need to expand the filter options to cover the range of available topics in the table. Rather than hard-coding all of the topics we can gather them from the text that has been entered in the table. We can change the definition of keywords to read geshibot lang php" var keywords...
jQuery Table Row Filtering Earlier we examined sorting and paging as techniques for helping users focus on relevant portions of a table s data. We saw that both could be implemented either with server-side technology or with JavaScript. Filtering completes this arsenal of data arrangement strategies. By displaying to the user only the table rows that...
jQuery Collapsing and Expanding Table Rows When large sets of data are grouped in tables as each year s set of articles are in our News page collapsing or hiding a section s contents can be a convenient way to get a broad view of all of the table s data without having to scroll so much. To make the sections of the news article table collapsible...