Tools 4 Facebook

Returns membership list data associated with an event.

February 21st, 2008
Categories: Apps development, Facebook Methods . Author: admin . Comments: No Comments

Returns all visible events according to the filters specified. This may be used to find all events of a user, or to query specific eids.

February 20th, 2008
Categories: Apps development, Facebook Methods . Author: admin . Comments: 1 Comment

The Facebook Platform is a standards-based web service with methods for accessing and contributing Facebook data.
We will discuss about those methods one by one in the next posts.
3 ingredients needed to program within the Facebook Platform: the API interface, the querying language FQL and the Markup Language FBML.
Interface (API)
The Facebook API (Facebook Application Progreamming […]

February 20th, 2008
Categories: Apps development, Basis, Uncategorized . Author: admin . Comments: 1 Comment

Facebook decided to prohibit applications from dead-ending users at an invite-friends page and thus applications must never again prompt for invites after the user has declined.
Paul C. Jeffries adds
“It is often said that through constraints comes creativity. Facebook policy parameters are designed to more fully enable the flourishing of the Platform ecosystem.”
For further reading […]

February 19th, 2008
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With this console proposed by Facebook you can experiment with functions and responses, and see what content Facebook Platform makes available.
You may choose the reponse format between the 3 following :
- XML
- JSON
- Facebook PHP Client
You may test the format of the return values of the following methods :
- events.get
- events.getMembers
- fql.querry
- friends.get
- […]

February 18th, 2008
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Facebook applications can now function on any website with the new JavaScript Facebook API.
Now the 13,000+ Facebook applications that are currently hostable only inside www.facebook.com can now have a presence on the rest of the web.
How does it work? The key to a Facebook application is getting access to the underlying Facebook object and […]

February 18th, 2008
Categories: Javascript . Author: admin . Comments: 1 Comment

It seems that Facebook has introduced a restricted, but functional version of JavaScript for use on Facebook. Only onClick attributes and the like are allowed directly in the html of an object; All other events must be registered as listeners. No JavaScript, including listeners, will be registered until the user clicks on a FBJS-enabled object. […]

February 18th, 2008
Categories: Javascript, News . Author: admin . Comments: No Comments

This is the second part of the liverail “Continuing Facebook Applications with Ruby On Rails” tutorial I just referenced yesterday.
Now Stuarteccles is talking about some nice tips like :
- Sending events to the feed
- Adding a profile box to a user’s profile page
- Adding a profile action to a user’s profile page
- […]

February 15th, 2008
Categories: Apps development, Ruby on Rails, Tutorials . Author: admin . Comments: No Comments

After the facebook php tutorial, I found a nice tutorial on liverail which explains, with code samples, how to develop a Facebook platform application with Ruby on Rails.
Stuarteccles says:
“This article is a complete tutorial for building a simple Facebook application using Ruby on Rails and should allow you to hit the ground running. We are […]

February 14th, 2008
Categories: Apps development, Ruby on Rails, Tutorials . Author: admin . Comments: No Comments

If you’ve been working through the Facebook/Rails tutorials you might find this plugin useful.
 
Facebook on Rails is a sexy plugin for developing Facebook apps.
 
It adds some useful functions to Rails for creating a Facebook application.
 
Source page

February 12th, 2008
Categories: Apps development, Plugin's, Ruby on Rails, Tutorials . Author: admin . Comments: No Comments