Learning Facebook Application Development

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 in Trippert Labs and managing the local branch in Bangladesh. Beside his full time job, Hasin writes his blog at http://hasin.wordpress.com, writes article in different websites and maintains his open-source framework Orchid at http://orchid.phpxperts.net. Hasin lives in Bangladesh with his wife Ayesha and his son, Afif.

Dr. Mark Alexander Bain first started customizing CRM systems back in the mid '90s when he was team leader for Vodafone's Cascade project—the team took the 'out-of-the-box' Clarify CRM and turned it into a radio base station planning application, complete with a workflow engine for passing jobs between the different departments involved in the planning, building, and implementation of a radio network. Since then, he's lectured at the University of Central Lancashire. Currently Mark writes articles on all things Linux and Open Source for Linux Format, Newsforge.com and Linux Journal. SugarCRM customization, therefore, seems the obvious choice for this, his second book, since it combines Mark's knowledge of working with commercial CRMs and the Open Source philosophy. Mark works from his home on the edge of the Lake District in the UK, where he lives with his wife, two dogs and two cats, and gets the odd visit from his sons— Michael and Simon.

Learning Facebook Application Development

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. 

This book is available for purchase at Packtpub.com Learning Facebook Application Development

Read Sample Chapter 1 Getting to Grips with the Facebook Platform

     ●  The Facebook Platform Elements
     ●  Getting to Grips with the Facebook Platform
     ●  Facebook Markup Language - FBML
     ●  Facebook Query Language - FQL
     ●  Obtaining the Facebook Client Libraries
     ●  Adding Facebook Developer Application
     ●  Setting Up Facebook Application
     ●  Facebook Integration Points

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