FBML essentials / by Jesse Stay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stay, Jesse.

Series:

Web authoring & design FBML essentials

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Facebook (Electronic resource).

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Document markup languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly, 2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Do you have an idea for a Facebook application? With FBML Essentials, you'll learn how to build it quickly using the Facebook Markup Language (FBML) and other easy-to-use tools in the site's framework. If you can develop a website with HTML, writing a Facebook application with the help of this book will be a breeze. Of course, Facebook is not just another website. Any applications you write for it will have a potential audience of 16 million dedicated users. It's not just another social networking site, either. Under the surface, Facebook is pretty sophisticated, wit

Contents:

Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; The Facebook Platform Emerges; FBML; Developer Guidelines; Useful Resources; Tools and Documentation; News and Information About Facebook Development; Is This Book For You?; Some Terms You Should Know; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; How to Contact Us; Safari® Books Online; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. "Hello Friends"; The "Hello World" for Social Development; Step 1: Set Up a Facebook Developer Account; Step 2: Add the Developer App; Step 3: Set Up the App; Chapter 2. HTML Design in a Facebook Environment; Forms in FBML

The tagFBML-Specific Attributes; Example FBML; Rendered HTML for Single Instance of Tag; Additional information; Images in FBML; CSS and DOM in FBML; JavaScript in FBML; Other Things to Consider; User IDs and FBML; Public Canvas Pages and SEO; The tag; Example FBML; Rendered HTML for Single Instance of Tag; Additional information; Hosting; The Facebook Platform Architecture; Chapter 3. FBML Reference; Facebook FBML Test Console; Authorization Tags; The "User" Authorization Tag; Authorizing by User Agent; Canvas Page Authorization Tags

Profile and Facebook Page Authorization TagsLogic Tags; Random Logic; Messaging and Alerts in FBML; Profile-Specific Tags; Users, Groups, Events, Networks, and Applications; HTML Display and Navigation; General HTML Display Tags; Page Navigation Tags; Creating Forms With FBML; Dialog Boxes in Facebook-The Facebook "Pop Up"; Embedding Media With FBML; Virally Promoting Your App With FBML; Request and Notification Tags; Feed Forms; The Wall; The Tag; Miscellaneous Tools for Rendering Data Using FBML; Dynamic FBML Attributes; Visibility Attributes; Mock AJAX

Data Access for JavaScript and Dynamic Rendering in FBMLChapter 4. FBJS Reference; Introduction; General Information; Event Listeners; AJAX; Dialogs; Visualization; Conclusion; Afterword; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781449379421

1449379427

9780596154653

0596154658

OCLC:

297574554