Facebook Cookbook

Dedication; Contributors; Preface; Who Should Read This Book; What???s in This Book?; Code Samples; Keeping Up with the Facebookers; Using Code Examples; Safari?? Books Online; Comments and Questions; Thanks!; Apologies to Eli; Chapter 1: Introducing Facebook Platform; 1.1 What Exactly Is Facebook Platform?; 1.2 Skills to Pay the Bills; 1.3 Facebook Platform Off-Facebook; 1.4 Facebook Platform Versus Google OpenSocial; 1.5 Saddle Up!; Chapter 2: Ideation and Strategy; 2.1 Which Types of Apps Are the Most Popular?; 2.2 Which Apps Are Most Popular?; 2.3 Test-Driving Ideas with Facebook Polls; 2.4 The Winning Formula for Facebook; 2.5 Where???s the Money?; 2.6 Google AdSense and Facebook; 2.7 Funding Facebook Development; 2.8 Facebook Platform Integration Points; 2.9 Application Directory; 2.10 Navigating the Applications Menu; 2.11 Facebook Canvas Pages; 2.12 Think Outside the Profile Box; 2.13 Info Sections; 2.14 News Feed and Mini-Feed; 2.15 Noteworthy Notifications; 2.16 Understanding Allocations; 2.17 Attachments and the Publisher; 2.18 Requests; 2.19 Tabs; 2.20 Guiding Principles of App Strategy; 2.21 Community Gardening; 2.22 Finding Inspiration; Chapter 3: Hello World; 3.1 Installing the Facebook Developer App; 3.2 Setting Up a New App; 3.3 Hello World; 3.4 Installing Your App: It???s All About the About Page; Chapter 4: Architecture and Design; 4.1 Under the Hood: How Facebook Apps Work; 4.2 Architecting for the Future: Open Web Apps; 4.3 Build Now, Scale Later: Getting Real; 4.4 Scalability; 4.5 Language Selection As Architecture; 4.6 Cross-Language Development with Facebook Thrift; 4.7 The Database Is Dead! Long Live memcached!; 4.8 Advanced Caching with Nginx and memcached; 4.9 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Hosting with Amazon Web Services; 4.10 Integrating Drupal and Facebook; 4.11 App Design Process; 4.12 The Facebook User Interface Widgets; 4.13 Facebook???s Global User Interface; Chapter 5: Setting Up Your Environment; 5.1 Creating a Test Account; 5.2 Facebook Clients; 5.3 JavaScript Client Library; 5.4 Starting Out in PHP; 5.5 Demo Applications; 5.6 Developer Documentation; 5.7 Test Consoles; 5.8 Developer Forums: Help!; 5.9 Facebook Bug Squashing; 5.10 Facebook Developer Software Toolbox; 5.11 Weekly Facebook Pushes; 5.12 Hosting; 5.13 Amazonian Backends: Simple Storage Solution; 5.14 Amazonian Backends: Hosting on Elastic Cloud Computing; 5.15 Staying Up-to-Date; Chapter 6: Facebook Markup Language (FBML); 6.1 What Is FBML?; 6.2 Categories of FBML Tags; 6.3 FBML Versions; 6.4 A Rose by Any Other Name: Forced Renaming; 6.5 Web Standards; 6.6 Displaying a User???s Name; 6.7 He Said, She Said: Dealing with Pronouns; 6.8 Worth a Thousand Words: Profile Pictures; 6.9 Linking to Events; 6.10 Linking to Groups; 6.11 Linking to Networks; 6.12 Display Content to Group Members; 6.13 Display Content to Network Members; 6.14 Displaying Content to App Users; 6.15 Displaying Content to Friends; 6.16 Displaying/Hiding Content to/from Specific Users; 6.17 Displaying Random Content; 6.18 Displaying Content to Specific Browsers; 6.19 Displaying Your Application???s Name; 6.20 Formatting Relative Time; 6.21 Making Content Visible to Some Users in Profile Boxes; 6.22 Hiding Private Profile Content; 6.23 Hiding Private Photos; 6.24 Embedding an iFrame; 6.25 Embedding Facebook Photos; 6.26 Embedding MP3s; 6.27 Embedding Adobe Flash; 6.28 Embedding Flash Video; 6.29 Embedding Microsoft Silverlight; 6.30 Wide Versus Narrow Profile Boxes; 6.31 Tabling Users; 6.32 Page and Box Titles; 6.33 Profile Box Subtitles; 6.34 Forms the Facebook Way; 6.35 Heads Up! Heading Your App Pages; 6.36 Dashing Dashboards: Heading Your App Pages; 6.37 Tabs Ahoy!; 6.38 Media Headers; 6.39 Errors, Explanation, and Success: Displaying Messages (Oh My!); 6.40 Discussion Boards Made Simple; 6.41 Giving Users a Voice: Wall Posts in Your App; 6.42 Adding Profile Boxes and Info Sections; 6.43 Prompting for Extended Permissions; 6.44 You Can Pick Your Friends; 6.45 You Can Pick Your Friends (in Batches); 6.46 Invitations and Requests; 6.47 Predicting the Future with Type-Ahead Controls; 6.48 Using FBML Inside FBJS; 6.49 Dialogs That Pop; 6.50 Dialogs in Context; 6.51 Dialogs with Ajax; 6.52 Facebook Share Buttons; 6.53 Feed Forms: Publishing Feed Stories from FBML; 6.54 Redirecting to a Different URL; 6.55 Painless Image Submitting; 6.56 Hunting for Robots: CAPTCHA in Your App; 6.57 FBML Caching; 6.58 Analyzing Traffic with Google Analytics; 6.59 Translations; 6.60 Valid HTML Tags; 6.61 Facebook and CSS: FBSS?; 6.62 Beating the CSS, JavaScript, and Image Cache; Chapter 7: Facebook JavaScript (FBJS); 7.1 Dealing with Sandbox Renaming; 7.2 Losing Your s; 7.3 Retrieving DOM Elements; 77.4 Manipulating DOM Elements; 7.5 Manipulating CSS Styles; 7.6 Manipulating CSS Class Names; 7.7 Dynamically Setting Content; 7.8 Textbox Selections; 7.9 Limiting the Length of Text Fields; 7.10 Creating Elements Dynamically; 7.11 Adding and Removing Event Listeners; 7.12 Retrieving Data via Ajax; 7.13 Displaying Pop-Up Dialogs; 7.14 Displaying Contextual Dialogs; 7.15 Avoiding Heartache When the DOM Changes; 7.16 Linking to External FBJS Files; 7.17 Use Firebug (No, Seriously); 7.18 Accessing the DOM Behind FBJS; 7.19 Ajax Library: Backface; Chapter 8: Facebook Query Language (FQL); 8.1 Playing with FQL; 8.2 FQL Query Structure; 8.3 Functions and Operators; 8.4 Indexed Facebook Tables and Fields; 8.5 Advanced Relational Database Table Optimization; 8.6 Album Table; 8.7 Retrieving an Album; 8.8 Counting All of a User???s Photos; 8.9 Retrieving Five Albums for a User; 8.10 Cookie Table; 8.11 Retrieving All Cookies for a User; 8.12 Retrieving a Specific Cookie; 8.13 Retrieving All Cookies for a Specific Path; 8.14 Metrics Table; 8.15 Retrieving Yesterday???s Metrics; 8.16 Retrieving Metrics for a Date Range; 8.17 Alerting Yourself; 8.18 Event Table; 8.19 Event Member Table; 8.20 Retrieving an Event; 8.21 Retrieving Events Created by a User; 8.22 Retrieving a User???s Events; 8.23 Retrieving a User???s Events with a Specific RSVP; 8.24 Retrieving Events Two Users Are Attending; 8.25 Friend Table; 8.26 Friend Request Table; 8.27 Retrieving a User???s Friends; 8.28 Checking Whether Two Users are Friends; 8.29 Retrieving a User???s Pending Friend Requests; 8.30 Checking for a Friend Request Between Two Users; 8.31 Friend List Table; 8.32 Friend List Members Table; 8.33 Retrieving a User???s Friend Lists; 8.34 Retrieving a Specific Friend List; 8.35 Retrieving Friends in Friend Lists; 8.36 Retrieving Friends in a Specific Friend List; 8.37 Groups Table; 8.38 Group Member Table; 8.39 Retrieving a Specific Group; 8.40 Retrieving a User???s Groups; 8.41 Checking Whether Two Users Are in the Same Group; 8.42 Listing Table; 8.43 Retrieving a Listing; 8.44 Retrieving a User???s Listings; 8.45 Retrieving a User???s Friends??? Listings; 8.46 Retrieving a User???s Listings by Category; 8.47 Page Table; 8.48 Page Fan Table; 8.49 Retrieving a Page; 8.50 Retrieving a User???s Pages; 8.51 Photo Table; 8.52 Photo Tag Table; 8.53 Retrieving the 10 Most Recent Photos from a User; 8.54 Retrieving All Photos a User Is Tagged In; 8.55 User Table; 8.56 App Friends; 8.57 Birthday Friends; 8.58 600 Errors; 8.59 Preload FQL; Chapter 9: Facebook API; 9.1 What???s an API?; 9.2 Getting Started with the Client Library; 9.3 RESTing with Facebook; 9.4 Storable Data; 9.5 Authenticating Users; 9.6 Creating a Session Key; 9.7 Creating an Infinite Session Key; 9.8 Getting a Session (Desktop Only); 9.9 Creating an Auth Token (Desktop Only); 9.10 Making Calls (Desktop Only); 9.11 Logging Out; 9.12 Getting Allocations; 9.13 Getting Metrics; 9.14 Getting and Setting Application Properties; 9.15 Getting an App???s 4-1-1; 9.16 Batching Calls; 9.17 Getting and Setting Cookies; 9.18 Getting Events; 9.19 Getting Event Members; 9.20 Refreshing FBML Caches; 9.21 Getting a (Ref) Handle on FBML; 9.22 Three Story Sizes: Working with Template Bundles; 9.23 Publishing News and Mini-Feed Stories; 9.24 Story Aggregation; 9.25 Setting Info Sections; 9.26 FQL Queries; 9.27 Friends?; 9.28 Get Friends; 9.29 Get Friends Who Use My App; 9.30 Get Friend Lists; 9.31 Get Groups; 9.32 Get Group Members; 9.33 Creating/Modifying Marketplace Listings; 9.34 Get Marketplace Listings; 9.35 Get Marketplace Categories and Subcategories; 9.36 Deleting Marketplace Listings; 9.37 Searching the Marketplace; 9.38 Sending Notifications; 9.39 Get Notifications; 9.40 Get Pages; 9.41 Checking Page Properties; 9.42 Create a Photo Album; 9.43 Get Photo Albums; 9.44 Get Photos; 9.45 Uploading a Photo; 9.46 Adding Tags to Photos; 9.47 Getting and Setting Profile FBML; 9.48 Get a User???s Info; 9.49 Get Logged-In User; 9.50 Has a User Added My App?; 9.51 Setting Status; 9.52 Extended Permissions; 9.53 Checking Extended Permissions; 9.54 Storing Data with the Data Store API; 9.55 Granting Permissions to Other Applications Via the Permissions API; 9.56 Post-Remove (Uninstall) URL; 9.57 Adding Missing PHP Client Library Methods; 9.58 Error Codes; Chapter 10: Marketing Your App; 10.1 Attracting Users Through Facebook Ads; 10.2 Monetize, Measure, and Market with SocialMedia; 10.3 Social Network Advertising with Cubics; 10.4 Other Ad Networks; 10.5 Spreading Your App via Google AdWords; 10.6 Measuring Your Success; 10.7 Work the Integration Points; 10.8 Continuous Improvement Through A/B Testing; 10.9 The Great Apps Program; 10.10 Application Verification Program; Colophon;