In Detail
With a user base of nearly 600 million people, Facebook is the number one social networking platform. Applications can be created to interact with this huge user base in various ways both inside and outside Facebook. These applications, if developed effectively and efficiently, offer a free medium for promotion and publicity of a product or an organization.
Facebook Application Development with Graph API Cookbook covers both the concepts and implementations necessary to develop Facebook applications and provides ready to use code for common scenarios faced by a developer while creating these applications. It incorporates the newly launched Facebook Graph API and also presents the reader with some intuitive ready to use applications.
This book guides the reader step by step, from start to finish, through various stages of Facebook application development. It begins by exploring the Facebook application registration and discussing the verification and authentication technique. It then takes you through the various ways in which you can use Facebook Graph API for interacting with users such as posting on a user's wall, tagging a user in a picture, etc. Accessing complex Facebook user data by formulating a series of queries, doing client side scripting and incorporating Facebook Dialog interface are some other features that have been incorporated in this book. Integration of various Facebook Social Plugins such as the like box in your web page has also been discussed. Further you will get to know the concept of virtual currency and how to programmatically derive Facebook analytics data. As the book progresses, you will learn to use and integrate many more advanced features in Facebook application development. The book contains ready to use code that can be deployed instantly. Towards the end, the book houses a variety of ready to use Facebook applications so as to help readers derive their own applications from them.
What you will learn from this book
Approach
Written in a cookbook style, this book offers solutions using a recipe-based approach. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions followed by an analysis of what was done in each task and other useful information. The cookbook approach means you can dive into whatever recipes you want in no particular order. The book provides tips and tricks to the most common problems and scenarios faced in Facebook Application Development.
Who this book is written for
This book is written for Facebook developers ranging from novice to expert. It uses PHP, HTML and jQuery, the most commonly used platforms, to build applications in Facebook.
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Shashwat Srivastava has been an avid coder since high school and has acquired technical proficiency in various programming languages with over 12 years experience. He is a strong advocate of open source tools and hosts his projects at SourceForge. He has successfully participated in Google Summer of Code Programs 2010 and 2011. He graduated as Bachelor in Electronics and Communication from Delhi College of Engineering in 2011. During his college days, Shashwat published websites for several clients including his college library and electronics department. Currently, he is working as an application developer at Oracle. He actively contributes to Drupal and has developed modules such as DrupalChat, DXMPP and Chatroom. His keen interest lies in web application development and as a result he has built several Facebook and Twitter applications. Passionate about programming he loves to blog about PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, Linux, Android and other insanities at botskool.com. When unplugged, he enjoys playing chess and computer games.
Apeksha Singh
Apeksha Singh is a software engineer and an open source hobbyist and enthusiast. She has recently graduated as a Computer Science Engineer from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology and has extensive experience in web development and search engine optimization. She has authored articles and research papers in these fields. She has programming experience of seven years and loves data structure. Obsessed with new technology, Apeksha keeps track of the latest developments in the tech world and likes to update others and share her views by blogging at botskool.com. She has also worked in the field of embedded systems and robotics. In her free time, she reads novels and plays sports such as badminton and tennis. She can be reached at her personal blog - apeksha0701.blogspot.com.
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