May 2011
Beginner
408 pages
10h 27m
English
Content preview from Facebook® Application Development For Dummies®
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Making Friends Out of Your Users with the Friend's Dialog Box
One of my favorite calls is one that you can use with the FB.ui JavaScript method to send requests for friendship from user to user. The call is as simple as calling the friend's dialog box and passing it the ID of the user you want your user to be friends with. So, for instance, if you want to provide a list of other Inspirations users who aren't friends of your user, you could give your user the option to friend each of them, meeting new users of your application in the process. The code to do this is shown below. You can run this on your own site (http://developers.facebook.com/tools/console/) and see what it does, or see it in action at http://apps.facebook.com/inspirationsapp/friending.html:
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