Making A Facebook Application
The Facebook platform has been recently opened up, so that independent developers can now make applications for its users.
This is really exciting for small developers, because it means that you can submit your application and it automatically becomes available to the 300 million+ users of Facebook.
So I thought I should give it a try…
I have developed a simple application called Thoughtful Thoughts.
This application places a powerful thought on your Profile Page for you or your visitors to read, whenever you want it. You can change the thought to a new one at any time, by simple running the app again.
In a future post here, I will write more about exactly how I went about doing the development and what coding was needed.
But essentially, I first added Facebook Developer to my account.
Then I studied the example applications they provide, to get an idea of the code and programming structure needed.
I created my simple app by amending one of the examples. It consists of a few php files running on my server, that are linked into and called by Facebook.
It’s functionality is fairly basic, but it has provided an excellent introduction to the techniques and the platform.
It’s now been added by sufficient users, to permit me to submit it to the Facebook Application Directory.
I’m waiting to see whether it is accepted! I’ll let you know…
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October 27th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
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December 17th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
can u share your application files? This is best way the learning for makin app.