Building Facebook Applications For Dummies serves as your no-nonsense guide to creating and designing Facebook applications. I focus on providing the essentials that you need to know to be successful. You’ll explore how to do many tasks in this book, such as these ; Seamlessly integrate with Facebook.com using the Facebook API; make sense of Facebook Platform technologies, including Facebook Markup Language (FBML), Facebook Query Language (FQL), and Facebook JavaScript (FBJS); migrate your existing Web application to a Facebook app; tap into core Facebook services, such as the News Feed and Wall; create mobile apps for Facebook; get your app noticed by Facebook users.
You can create Facebook apps using many Web programming languages including PHP, Java, ASP.NET, ASP, ColdFusion, C++, C#, Python, Ruby on Rails, and more. Because it is impossible to fully cover each of these languages in any book, this book focuses on PHP in the examples. However many of the Facebook technologies (FBML, FQL, and FBJS) are language neutral and will be implemented the same way regardless of the language used. And, in cases in which you need to call the Facebook API, you can follow along by translating the API calls into your language of choice.
