Facebook® Application Development For Dummies®

Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

Foolish Assumptions

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Understanding the Basics of a Facebook Application

Part II: Integrating with the Facebook.com Environment

Part III: From Fishers to Farmers — Building Facebook on Your Own Site

Part IV: Delving into APIs

Part V: Turning Your Facebook Application into a Legitimate Business

Part VI: The Part of Tens

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Understanding the Basics of a Facebook Application

   Chapter 1: Getting Acquainted with Facebook Application Development

What's a Facebook Application?

Understanding the Facebook Application Development Process

Picking a Platform That Works Right for You

Fishing where the fish are

From fishers to farmers

Releasing your application to the building block Web

Understanding How Your Application Will Access Facebook

The Facebook.com environment

Accessing Facebook from your own Web site

Selecting a Development Language

The Facebook JavaScript SDK

The Facebook PHP and Python SDKs

The iPhone and Android SDKs

Other “nonofficial” SDKs

Referring to the Facebook Documentation

Perusing Developers.facebook.com for information

The Facebook documentation Web site

OpenGraphProtocol.org

GitHub

   Chapter 2: Building Your First Application

Understanding the Development Process

Setting Up Your Hosting Environment

Understanding index.html

What about my domain?

Using existing content or servers

Getting the Facebook Developer ...