Archive for the Facebook connect Category

Facebook Widgets

Posted by mahmud ahsan Filed Under Facebook, Facebook connect with 1 Comment

facebookIf you have a site, then you should aware to increase more traffic in any possible way. If you’re aware on it, then you could use and integrate facebook widgets in your site. Currently there are 10 widgets provided by facebook. You could visit here http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/ to see all the widgets. Widgets integration is very easy. You just have to select some options and facebook will generate code that you can easily add in your site.

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Communicating with Users via Email in Facebook

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facebookFacebook will stop notification system for Application soon. That means facebook application will not send notification to its users. Instead this facebook inspires developer to send email from their application to their users. But a application couldn’t send email until user specifically provide permission. And this is one of the extended permission of facebook.

If you want to know how to prompt user for extended permission you can see my previous article http://thinkdiff.net/facebook/prompt-for-extended-permission-in-facebook-app/

In order for your application or site to get a user’s email address you have to do the following tasks:

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Inspire user to bookmark your facebook app

Posted by mahmud ahsan Filed Under Facebook, Facebook connect with 1 Comment

facebookIf you develop facebook application then you should inspire your user to bookmark your application. If users like your application they will surely use it more often. And if they found bookmark button in the app they might click it to bookmark the application. As a result user will use your application easily.

There are 2 ways to show bookmark button in your facebook application and facebook connect base application

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Change facebook.showFeedDialog to facebook.streamPublish

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facebookFacebook announced in their road-map about some major changes in the late 2009. Some of those changes now activated in facebook.  One of these important changes is to deprecate feed publish and replace it with stream publish.

I support it and like it. Because stream publishing is much easier and simple than feed publishing. This is a technical issue. So if you didn’t already change your feed publishing method to stream publish method, then you should do the change right now. Otherwise the wall post publish box will not work in your facebook or facebook connect application at anytime.

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YouTube Search functionality in facebook app

Posted by mahmud ahsan Filed Under Facebook, Facebook connect, PHP with 1 Comment

fb_logoSomeday ago I had to add youtube video search functionality in a facebook app. Here I described how I added youtube search functionality in that facebook app using Zend_Gdata php library.

Here is a screenshot of that facebook application, where I added YouTube video search functionality.

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Retrieve your friends latest photos

Posted by mahmud ahsan Filed Under Facebook, Facebook connect with 5 Comments

fb_logoSuppose you want to develop a facebook application or facebook connect base application, where you want to show all the latest photos published by your friends in facebook. In this post I’m showing the solution.

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facebook birthday api

Posted by mahmud ahsan Filed Under Facebook, Facebook connect with 1 Comment

fb_logoThere are many birthday related facebook application. Most of this type application provide feature like, they show you the upcoming birthdays of your friends. Some of the app also send notification to user before any birthday of his friends come.

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Must use FQL Multiquery to retrieve data

Posted by mahmud ahsan Filed Under Facebook, Facebook connect with 3 Comments

fb_logoIf you are developing facebook application or facebook connect base application, then you might know how to retrieve data from FQL tables.

To retrieve data from FQL tables facebook provides two api methods, fql_query() and fql_multiquery()

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