
FBML Essentials
Facebook Markup Language Fundamentals
Jesse Stay(Author)
O'Reilly (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 26. August 2008
Book
188 pages
978-0-596-51918-6 (ISBN)
Description
Do you have an idea for a Facebook application? With FBML Essentials, you'll learn how to build it quickly using the Facebook Markup Language (FBML) and other easy-to-use tools in the site's framework. If you can develop a website with HTML, writing a Facebook application with the help of this book will be a breeze.
Of course, Facebook is not just another website. Any applications you write for it will have a potential audience of 16 million dedicated users. It's not just another social networking site, either. Under the surface, Facebook is pretty sophisticated, with a development toolkit that includes it's own modified version of HTML -- FBML -- to customize the look and feel of your Facebook applications.
With FBML Essentials, you not only learn how to get started with this toolkit, you also get a complete reference on every FBML tag Facebook has ever written, with examples of how each tag works and advice on the best ways to use these tags in your code.
This book includes:
* A walkthrough of a sample Facebook application
* Design rules for using images, CSS, JavaScript, and forms
* Specific chapters on tags -- authorization tags, logic tags, user/group tags, profile-specific tags, and more
* Messaging and alerts using FBML
* Creating forms with FBML
* Facebook navigation
* Notifications and requests
* Dynamic FBML attributes, including MockAJAX
* How to test your FBML code
* A chapter on FBJS, Facebook's version of JavaScript
If you want to try your hand at writing a Facebook application, you have a willing audience, an easy-to-use toolkit, and the perfect guide to get you started. FBML Essentials will help you take your idea from conception to working application in no time.
Of course, Facebook is not just another website. Any applications you write for it will have a potential audience of 16 million dedicated users. It's not just another social networking site, either. Under the surface, Facebook is pretty sophisticated, with a development toolkit that includes it's own modified version of HTML -- FBML -- to customize the look and feel of your Facebook applications.
With FBML Essentials, you not only learn how to get started with this toolkit, you also get a complete reference on every FBML tag Facebook has ever written, with examples of how each tag works and advice on the best ways to use these tags in your code.
This book includes:
* A walkthrough of a sample Facebook application
* Design rules for using images, CSS, JavaScript, and forms
* Specific chapters on tags -- authorization tags, logic tags, user/group tags, profile-specific tags, and more
* Messaging and alerts using FBML
* Creating forms with FBML
* Facebook navigation
* Notifications and requests
* Dynamic FBML attributes, including MockAJAX
* How to test your FBML code
* A chapter on FBJS, Facebook's version of JavaScript
If you want to try your hand at writing a Facebook application, you have a willing audience, an easy-to-use toolkit, and the perfect guide to get you started. FBML Essentials will help you take your idea from conception to working application in no time.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-596-51918-6 (9780596519186)
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
Jesse Stay runs his own Social Media consulting and development business, and has consulted for some of the top 100 applications on Facebook. Within just 2 months, he successfully sold his first Facebook application that he wrote in just a week. He is the author of I'm on Facebook -- Now What???, a book targeted towards helping individuals and business owners better manage their lives through Facebook. You can follow him on his blog, http://www.jessestay.com.