In this book on 240 page: 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 on 240 page 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. What This Book Covers • Chapter 1 takes a look at the elements used by your application to interface with Facebook—the Facebook API, FBML, and FQL—that is the Facebook Platform. • Chapter 2 will cover how to extract the Facebook information to be displayed by your application, store information in the Facebook cache so that it can be displayed on your users' Profile pages, and store your own custom data. • Chapter 3 will cover how to manipulate data stored in a database, update your users' profiles automatically, track the users who are using your application, and use the Facebook Dashboard. • Chapter 4 will help you understand Facebook tags to display information in a hassle free and easier way. You will also get an introduction to Facebook Query Language (FQL), and understand why it is sometimes more effective to use FQL rather than the Facebook REST API. • Chapter 5 will see the scripting ability in Facebook, using a subset of standard JavaScript functions developed by Facebook, which is called FBJS. • Chapter 6 will go into the details of managing feeds (both news feed and mini feed) using Facebook REST APIs. • Chapter 7 will focus on creating a successful invitation system, creating a successful notification system, using notifications efficiently, and sending emails. • Chapter 8 will show you how to do the following: creating a photo importer from Facebook, creating a slide show application, and letting viewers upload photos to your album. • Chapter 9 will cover the usage of various tags in Facebook and create an interesting project using them. ¸¸.•*¨*•*´¨) ¸.•´¸.•*´¨) ¸.•*¨) (¸.•´ (¸.•` ¤ Thank you!

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