6 Registration, Authentication, and Translations with Facebook

Chapter 5, “An Overview of Facebook Platform Website Integration,” introduced you to the Facebook Platform as a technology that facilitates identity and friend connection sharing with any Internet-enabled device through client-side and server-side libraries that can be used to access many of the Facebook resources described in this chapter and in Chapter 7, “Using Facebook for Sharing, Commenting, and Stream Publishing.” The Facebook Platform for website integration toolset is split into two interrelated sections: one for registration, authentication, and translations (discussed in this chapter); and one for adding social interactions such as commenting, publishing, and for content ...

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