Fbml Essentials

by Stay, Jesse

• ISBN13: 9780596519186
• ISBN10: 0596519184
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

This is the complete guide to building Facebook applications using the site's development toolkit, tags, and the FBML markup language. The Facebook Platform lets third-party developers build applications for this popular social networking site, using a toolkit with the Facebook Markup Language (FBML) a modified version of HTML. This book gives developers all the guidance they need to use FBML, along with a reference on every FBML tag ever written. Beginning to expert web developers. All they need is a familiarity with HTML and an attraction to Facebook.

Author Biography

Jesse Stay runs his own Social Media consulting and development business, and has consulted for some of the top 100 applications on Facebook. Within just 2 months, he successfully sold his first Facebook application that he wrote in just a week. He is the author of I'm on Facebook -- Now What???, a book targeted towards helping individuals and business owners better manage their lives through Facebook. You can follow him on his blog, http://www.jessestay.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
"Hello Friends"	p. 1
The "Hello World" for Social Development	p. 1
Set Up a Facebook Developer Account	p. 2
Add the Developer App	p. 3
Set Up the App	p. 4
HTML Design in a Facebook Environment	p. 13
Forms in FBML	p. 13
Images in FBML	p. 15
CSS and DOM in FBML	p. 16
JavaScript in FBML	p. 17
Other Things to Consider	p. 18
Hosting	p. 20
The Facebook Platform Architecture	p. 21
FBML Reference	p. 23
Facebook FBML Test Console	p. 23
Authorization Tags	p. 24
Profile-Specific Tags	p. 51
Users, Groups, Events, Networks, and Applications	p. 58
HTML Display and Navigation	p. 65
Virally Promoting Your App With FBML	p. 115
Miscellaneous Tools for Rendering Data Using FBML	p. 128
Dynamic FBML Attributes	p. 140
FBJS Reference	p. 147
Introduction	p. 147
General Information	p. 147
Event Listeners	p. 150
AJAX	p. 151
Dialogs	p. 152
Visualization	p. 154
Conclusion	p. 154
Afterword	p. 155
Index	p. 157
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