Anyone get into Facebook development?
I did some code in FBML for both my
yardsalesgalore fan page & my
Computer Design & Repair fanpage. However, I have now moved onto Facebook's API development, & am not able to get the same FBML code to work. So I got to wondering what others may have done with the Facebook API... Anyone look into developing with this?
I don't know anything about it. I've been out of web design for so long that I guess that there is a lot I don't know anything about. I'm curious as to why you are going this route; are you trying to attract facebookers? Will it be linked to facebook?
(07-03-2010 11:51 PM)townsbg Wrote: [ -> ]I'm curious as to why you are going this route
Web 2.0 is the new thing. As a developer, you're either on board or you are not.
Logically speaking, any idiot can build their own web site now adays. & the ones that can't will pay another idiot $25, so there is no real profit to web development, unless the projects are large CMS style setups, web shopping carts, ect ect. On top of that building & showcasing web 2.0 technologies helps to say that we're not just another repair shop, but we get involved & understand changing trends.
The two previously mentioned sites do offer real time functionality. The yardsalesgalore site allows Facebook members to directly post yard sales to YardSalesGalore.com right from the facebook page. This creates new material for our site, as well as provide inner-activity for the Facebook page. No need to create an account, leave facebook, & so on. The facebook code that I implemented on the Computer Design & Repair fan page is actually a 2 way live quote system. The 1st option direct links to our phone provider & will actually connect a phone call to our office, & the 2nd will put through a quote request to our email server.
FBML is nice & all, but I'd really like to get involved with their API.
I've considered messing around with Facebook stuff, but I've never done anything with it.
Just an update, for anyone interested, the Facebook API is a set of functionality available to web developers, just like any other API I've worked with (Twitter/Paypal). The real difference is that when you build a Facebook application, you are given canvas space on your Facebook app page, & thus you can load whatever you like in the iframe. So the developer is free to write in Flash, Ruby on Rails, PHP/MySql, html, or whatever floats their boat. It's actually very versatile to the developer, & Facebook provides wonderful documentation & example code for their API.
Oh, & on a side note, I've gotten one customer & a couple of quotes from our quoting system that I built into our Facebook fan page using the FBML. Tiss nice!
Just completed an FBML project on Rent A Coder. It's actually really easy once you reference the tools correctly. I have not yet gotten the 'like' button to display, but I got the share with your friends, invites, all that regular stuff.
& we're still working on our Pirate game in the API
I've landed a job to build an online ordering system for a local pizza place on their Facebook. For now it can be viewed
here. Once it's finished it'll be moved to there own profile.
Very nice. I'm sure you'll have it working fine in no time.
Hey. "Facebook FBML Ajax & PHP interaction" it really work, I have been tried it and find more valuable thing from it.