Facebook® Application Development For Dummies®

How This Book Is Organized

I try to take you through all the different parts of Facebook development in this book. I try to cover it all. You'll find that I start out very simple. Toward the end, I get into a lot more of what you can do with Facebook Platform and describe how you can integrate it into an application or Web site. You can pick and choose any section to get what you want — skim it or read it — you're bound to find something you can benefit from.

Part I: Understanding the Basics of a Facebook Application

Baby steps, right? I take you through the very basics of what makes a Facebook application. I show you how to set up your first application and discuss how to find documentation. I show you how to create test accounts and describe the different pieces of a Facebook application.

Part II: Integrating with the Facebook.com Environment

I call this “fishing where the fish are.” Actually, it's a common term in marketing, which means that you go out and put your message where those you want to target are already located. In this case, that's Facebook.

I show you all the places in the Facebook.com environment that you can integrate with, and I describe what types of things you can do on Facebook.com. You discover how to “hack” Facebook, from within Facebook.com itself.

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

After you're able to hack Facebook.com, I show you how to go from the fish to the farm, bringing Facebook Platform onto your own Web site ...