January 10, 2008

CodeMash FaceBook development session notes

Uses FBML, FBJS

Create FaceBook Developer acct
Developer mode

Submit application to attract users
Built in App statistics
Can host on your own server

REST API
Api_key, v, Format, Method, UIDs, Fields, Call_id, sig
Session_key (gotten by you from user)

Get session key by:
User can either log in to your app
Or user installs your app

Can use FQL (subset of t-sql, no joins) to access user data.

Viral Distribution
Notifications

FBML: No <EMBED> <fb:profile-pic> + uid displays user profile pic, <fb:multi-friend-input> renders auto-complete friends text box (used commonly)

client langs PHP, Java unofficial:Actionscript, Ruby

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