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Publishing house: O'Reilly Media
Author: Jay Goldman
E-Book ISBN: 9780596803223
Print ISBN: 9780596518172
Publication year: 2009
Pages: 432
Print run: 1

Jay Goldman

Facebook Cookbook

Building Applications to Grow Your Facebook Empire

Want to build Facebook applications that truly stand out among the thousands already available? In addition to providing easy-to-follow recipes that offer practical ways to design and build scalable applications using the Facebook Platform and its new profile design, this Cookbook also explains proven strategies for attracting users in this highly competitive environment. With plenty of examples and practical solutions, Facebook Cookbook answers some of the hardest questions Facebook application developers contend with -- including how and where to get started. This Cookbook will help you: Learn to build an application that scales to accommodate a sudden influx of users Explore changes from Facebook's old profile design to the new look and feel Take advantage of new integration points in the new profile design Get tips for designing applications with hosting and deployment costs in mind Discover which widgets and controls to use for building the most attractive user interface design Learn the differences between standard HTML, JavaScript, and SQL, and the versions used on the Facebook Platform Target large, defined groups on Facebook, including those who want to find jobs, hire employees, market a business, advertise, and more If you can build simple web applications with HTML, Facebook Cookbook will help you build applications with the potential to reach millions of users around the globe. Learn what it takes to design applications that stand above the rest.

Table of Contents

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

What Exactly Is OpenSocial?

Who’s Going to Win?

What Should I Do?

1.5 Saddle Up!

Chapter 2. Ideation and Strategy

2.1 Which Types of Apps Are the Most Popular?

Problem

Solution

Discussion

2.2 Which Apps Are Most Popular?

Problem

Solution

Discussion

2.3 Test-Driving Ideas with Facebook Polls

Problem

Solution

Discussion

2.4 The Winning Formula for Facebook

Problem

Solution

Discussion

Try to build an application that is social in nature

Clean or vibrant look

Seasonal or long-term prospects

When to monetize

Scalability

Branding and appeal

2.5 Where’s the Money?

Problem

Solution

Discussion

2.6 Google AdSense and Facebook

Problem

Solution

Discussion

2.7 Funding Facebook Development

Problem

Solution

Discussion

2.8 Facebook Platform Integration Points

Problem

Solution

Discussion

2.9 Application Directory

Problem

Solution

Discussion

Application icon

Application logo

Application description

Application picture

Application categories

Measuring About Page success

2.10 Navigating the Applications Menu

Problem

Solution

2.11 Facebook Canvas Pages

Problem

Solution

Discussion

2.12 Think Outside the Profile Box

Problem

Solution

Discussion

2.13 Info Sections

Problem

Solution

Discussion

2.14 News Feed and Mini-Feed

Problem

Solution

Discussion

2.15 Noteworthy Notifications

Problem

Solution

Discussion

2.16 Understanding Allocations

Problem

Solution

Discussion

2.17 Attachments and the Publisher

Problem

Solution

Discussion

2.18 Requests

Problem

Solution and Discussion

2.19 Tabs

Problem

Solution

Discussion

2.20 Guiding Principles of App Strategy

Problem

Solution

Discussion

2.21 Community Gardening

Problem

Solution

Discussion

2.22 Finding Inspiration

Problem

Solution

Discussion

Chapter 3. Hello World

3.1 Installing the Facebook Developer App

Problem

Solution

Discussion

3.2 Setting Up a New App

Problem

Solution

Discussion

Base Options

Internationalization Options

Installation Options

Integration Points

3.3 Hello World

Problem

Solution

Discussion

3.4 Installing Your App: It’s All About the About Page

Problem

Solution

Discussion

Chapter 4. Architecture and Design

4.1 Under the Hood: How Facebook Apps Work

Problem

Solution

Discussion

4.2 Architecting for the Future: Open Web Apps

Problem

Solution

100

Discussion

101

4.3 Build Now, Scale Later: Getting Real

101

Problem

101

Solution

101

Discussion

103

4.4 Scalability

103

Problem

103

Solution

103

Discussion

103

Monitoring software

103

Application source code

104

Database

104

Hardware/OS/software utilities

104

User interface/support systems

104

4.5 Language Selection As Architecture

104

Problem

105

Solution

105

Discussion

106

4.6 Cross-Language Development with Facebook Thrift

106

Problem

106

Solution

106

Discussion

108

4.7 The Database Is Dead! Long Live memcached!

108

Problem

108

Solution

108

Discussion

109

4.8 Advanced Caching with Nginx and memcached

109

Problem

109

Solution

109

Discussion

110

4.9 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Hosting with Amazon Web Services

110

Problem

111

Solution

111

Discussion

111

4.10 Integrating Drupal and Facebook

111

Problem

111

Solution

111

Discussion

112

4.11 App Design Process

112

Problem

112

Solution

113

Discussion

113

Know thy user

114

Gooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaal!

114

Frame the problem

116

Making a mockery

117

Build it!

117

4.12 The Facebook User Interface Widgets

117

Problem

117

Solution

117

Discussion

117

Simple UI widgets

119

UI conventions

121

4.13 Facebook’s Global User Interface

121

Problem

121

Solution

122

Discussion

125

Chapter 5. Setting Up Your Environment

125

5.1 Creating a Test Account

125

Problem

125

Solution

126

Discussion

127

5.2 Facebook Clients

127

Problem

127

Solution

127

Discussion

127

5.3 JavaScript Client Library

127

Problem

127

Solution

128

Discussion

129

5.4 Starting Out in PHP

129

Problem

130

Solution

130

Discussion

132

5.5 Demo Applications

132

Problem

132

Solution and Discussion

132

5.6 Developer Documentation

132

Problem

133

Solution

133

Discussion

133

5.7 Test Consoles

133

Problem

133

Solution

134

Discussion

134

5.8 Developer Forums: Help!

134

Problem

134

Solution

134

Discussion

135

5.9 Facebook Bug Squashing

135

Problem

135

Solution

135

Discussion

135

5.10 Facebook Developer Software Toolbox

135

Problem

135

Solution

136

Discussion

136

Mac OS X

137

Windows

137

Linux

137

Eclipse

138

5.11 Weekly Facebook Pushes

138

Problem

138

Solution

138

Discussion

138

5.12 Hosting

138

Problem

138

Solution

139

Discussion

139

Joyent Facebook developers program

140

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

140

5.13 Amazonian Backends: Simple Storage Solution

140

Problem

141

Solution

141

Discussion

141

Setting up your AWS account

142

Getting foxy with S3Fox

144

Buckets of files

146

Interacting with S3’s API

146

5.14 Amazonian Backends: Hosting on Elastic Cloud Computing

146

Problem

146

Solution

147

Discussion

149

5.15 Staying Up-to-Date

149

Problem

149

Solution

150

Discussion

151

Chapter 6. Facebook Markup Language (FBML)

151

6.1 What Is FBML?

151

Problem

151

Solution

152

Discussion

153

6.2 Categories of FBML Tags

153

Problem

153

Solution

154

Discussion

154

6.3 FBML Versions

154

Problem

154

Solution

154

Discussion

155

6.4 A Rose by Any Other Name: Forced Renaming

155

Problem

155

Solution

155

Discussion

156

6.5 Web Standards

156

Problem

157

Solution

157

Discussion

158

Resources

159

6.6 Displaying a User’s Name

159

Problem

159

Solution

159

Discussion

161

6.7 He Said, She Said: Dealing with Pronouns

161

Problem

161

Solution

161

Discussion

162

6.8 Worth a Thousand Words: Profile Pictures

162

Problem

162

Solution

162

Discussion

163

6.9 Linking to Events

163

Problem

163

Solution

163

Discussion

164

6.10 Linking to Groups

164

Problem

164

Solution

164

Discussion

164

6.11 Linking to Networks

164

Problem

164

Solution

164

Discussion

164

6.12 Display Content to Group Members

164

Problem

164

Solution

165

Discussion

165

6.13 Display Content to Network Members

165

Problem

165

Solution

165

Discussion

166

6.14 Displaying Content to App Users

166

Problem

166

Solution

166

Discussion

166

6.15 Displaying Content to Friends

166

Problem

166

Solution

166

Discussion

167

6.16 Displaying/Hiding Content to/from Specific Users

167

Problem

167

Solution

167

Discussion

168

6.17 Displaying Random Content

168

Problem

168

Solution

168

Discussion

169

6.18 Displaying Content to Specific Browsers

169

Problem

169

Solution

169

Discussion

170

6.19 Displaying Your Application’s Name

170

Problem

170

Solution and Discussion

170

6.20 Formatting Relative Time

170

Problem

170

Solution

170

Discussion

171

6.21 Making Content Visible to Some Users in Profile Boxes

171

Problem

171

Solution

172

Discussion

173

6.22 Hiding Private Profile Content

173

Problem

173

Solution

173

Discussion

174

6.23 Hiding Private Photos

174

Problem

174

Solution

174

Discussion

175

6.24 Embedding an iFrame

175

Problem

175

Solution

175

Discussion

176

6.25 Embedding Facebook Photos

176

Problem

176

Solution

176

Discussion

177

6.26 Embedding MP3s

177

Problem

177

Solution

177

Discussion

178

6.27 Embedding Adobe Flash

178

Problem

178

Solution

178

Discussion

180

Enhancing security in your Flash

182

6.28 Embedding Flash Video

182

Problem

182

Solution

183

Discussion

183

6.29 Embedding Microsoft Silverlight

183

Problem

183

Solution

183

Discussion

184

6.30 Wide Versus Narrow Profile Boxes

184

Problem

184

Solution

185

Discussion

185

6.31 Tabling Users

185

Problem

185

Solution

186

Discussion

186

6.32 Page and Box Titles

186

Problem

186

Solution

187

Discussion

188

6.33 Profile Box Subtitles

188

Problem

188

Solution

188

Discussion

189

6.34 Forms the Facebook Way

189

Problem

189

Solution

190

Discussion

192

fb:editor

193

fb:editor-custom

193

fb:editor-text

193

fb:editor-textarea

194

fb:editor-time

194

fb:editor-month

194

fb:editor-date

195

fb:editor-button

195

6.35 Heads Up! Heading Your App Pages

195

Problem

195

Solution

196

Discussion

196

6.36 Dashing Dashboards: Heading Your App Pages

196

Problem

196

Solution

197

Discussion

199

6.37 Tabs Ahoy!

199

Problem

199

Solution

200

Discussion

200

6.38 Media Headers

200

Problem

200

Solution

201

Discussion

201

6.39 Errors, Explanation, and Success: Displaying Messages (Oh My!)

201

Problem

201

Solution

202

Discussion

203

6.40 Discussion Boards Made Simple

203

Problem

203

Solution

203

Discussion

204

6.41 Giving Users a Voice: Wall Posts in Your App

204

Problem

204

Solution

205

Discussion

207

6.42 Adding Profile Boxes and Info Sections

207

Problem

207

Solution

207

Discussion

209

6.43 Prompting for Extended Permissions

209

Problem

209

Solution

210

Discussion

210

6.44 You Can Pick Your Friends

210

Problem

210

Solution

211

Discussion

212

6.45 You Can Pick Your Friends (in Batches)

212

Problem

212

Solution

214

Discussion

215

6.46 Invitations and Requests

215

Problem

215

Solution

216

Discussion

216

Inviting/requesting friends in bulk

218

Inviting/requesting a small number of specific friends

219

Inviting/requesting a single user

219

6.47 Predicting the Future with Type-Ahead Controls

219

Problem

219

Solution

219

Discussion

220

6.48 Using FBML Inside FBJS

220

Problem

220

Solution

221

Discussion

222

6.49 Dialogs That Pop

222

Problem

222

Solution

222

Discussion

224

6.50 Dialogs in Context

224

Problem

224

Solution and Discussion

224

6.51 Dialogs with Ajax

224

Problem

224

Solution

229

6.52 Facebook Share Buttons

229

Problem

229

Solution

230

Discussion

231

6.53 Feed Forms: Publishing Feed Stories from FBML

231

Problem

232

Solution

232

Discussion

233

6.54 Redirecting to a Different URL

233

Problem

233

Solution

233

Discussion

234

6.55 Painless Image Submitting

234

Problem

234

Solution

234

Discussion

234

6.56 Hunting for Robots: CAPTCHA in Your App

234

Problem

234

Solution

235

Discussion

236

6.57 FBML Caching

236

Problem

236

Solution

236

Discussion

237

6.58 Analyzing Traffic with Google Analytics

237

Problem

237

Solution

237

Discussion

239

6.59 Translations

239

Problem

239

Solution

241

Discussion

244

6.60 Valid HTML Tags

244

Problem

244

Solution

245

Discussion

245

6.61 Facebook and CSS: FBSS?

245

Problem

245

Solution

245

Discussion

247

6.62 Beating the CSS, JavaScript, and Image Cache

247

Problem

247

Solution

247

Discussion

251

Chapter 7. Facebook JavaScript (FBJS)

253

7.1 Dealing with Sandbox Renaming

253

Problem

253

Solution

253

Discussion

256

7.2 Losing Your < >s

256

Problem

256

Solution

256

Discussion

256

7.3 Retrieving DOM Elements

256

Problem

256

Solution

257

Discussion

257

7.4 Manipulating DOM Elements

257

Problem

257

Solution

259

7.5 Manipulating CSS Styles

259

Problem

260

Solution

260

Discussion

260

7.6 Manipulating CSS Class Names

260

Problem

260

Solution

261

Discussion

263

7.7 Dynamically Setting Content

263

Problem

263

Solution

263

Discussion

264

7.8 Textbox Selections

264

Problem

264

Solution

265

Discussion

265

7.9 Limiting the Length of Text Fields

265

Problem

266

Solution

266

Discussion

266

7.10 Creating Elements Dynamically

266

Problem

266

Solution

266

Discussion

267

7.11 Adding and Removing Event Listeners

267

Problem

267

Solution

267

Discussion

267

7.12 Retrieving Data via Ajax

267

Problem

267

Solution

269

Discussion

271

7.13 Displaying Pop-Up Dialogs

271

Problem

271

Solution

272

Discussion

273

7.14 Displaying Contextual Dialogs

273

Problem

273

Solution

274

Discussion

274

7.15 Avoiding Heartache When the DOM Changes

274

Problem

274

Solution

275

Discussion

275

7.16 Linking to External FBJS Files

275

Problem

276

Solution

276

Discussion

276

7.17 Use Firebug (No, Seriously)

276

Problem

276

Solution

277

Discussion

278

7.18 Accessing the DOM Behind FBJS

278

Problem

278

Solution and Discussion

279

7.19 Ajax Library: Backface

279

Problem

279

Solution

279

Discussion

281

Chapter 8. Facebook Query Language (FQL)

282

8.1 Playing with FQL

282

Problem

282

Solution

282

Discussion

282

8.2 FQL Query Structure

282

Problem

282

Solution

283

Discussion

284

8.3 Functions and Operators

284

Problem

284

Solution

284

Discussion

285

8.4 Indexed Facebook Tables and Fields

285

Problem

285

Solution

288

8.5 Advanced Relational Database Table Optimization

288

Problem

288

Solution

288

Denormalization

289

Cached counters

289

Precalculated sums

289

Discussion

290

Next steps

290

8.6 Album Table

290

Problem

290

Solution

291

Discussion

291

8.7 Retrieving an Album

291

Problem

291

Solution

291

Discussion

292

8.8 Counting All of a User’s Photos

292

Problem

292

Solution

292

Discussion

292

8.9 Retrieving Five Albums for a User

292

Problem

292

Solution

292

Discussion

293

8.10 Cookie Table

293

Problem

293

Solution

293

Discussion

294

8.11 Retrieving All Cookies for a User

294

Problem

294

Solution

294

Discussion

294

8.12 Retrieving a Specific Cookie

294

Problem

294

Solution

294

Discussion

294

8.13 Retrieving All Cookies for a Specific Path

294

Problem

294

Solution and Discussion

295

8.14 Metrics Table

295

Problem

295

Solution

296

Discussion

296

8.15 Retrieving Yesterday’s Metrics

296

Problem

296

Solution

297

Discussion

297

8.16 Retrieving Metrics for a Date Range

297

Problem

297

Solution

297

Discussion

298

8.17 Alerting Yourself

298

Problem

298

Solution

298

Discussion

299

8.18 Event Table

299

Problem

299

Solution

300

Discussion

300

8.19 Event Member Table

300

Problem

300

Solution

301

Discussion

301

8.20 Retrieving an Event

301

Problem

301

Solution

301

Discussion

301

8.21 Retrieving Events Created by a User

301

Problem

301

Solution

301

Discussion

302

8.22 Retrieving a User’s Events

302

Problem

302

Solution

302

Discussion

302

8.23 Retrieving a User’s Events with a Specific RSVP

302

Problem

302

Solution

302

Discussion

302

8.24 Retrieving Events Two Users Are Attending

302

Problem

302

Solution

303

Discussion

303

8.25 Friend Table

303

Problem

303

Solution

303

Discussion

303

8.26 Friend Request Table

303

Problem

304

Solution

304

Discussion

304

8.27 Retrieving a User’s Friends

304

Problem

304

Solution

304

Discussion

305

8.28 Checking Whether Two Users are Friends

305

Problem

305

Solution

305

Discussion

305

8.29 Retrieving a User’s Pending Friend Requests

305

Problem

305

Solution

305

Discussion

305

8.30 Checking for a Friend Request Between Two Users

305

Problem

305

Solution

306

Discussion

306

8.31 Friend List Table

306

Problem

306

Solution

306

Discussion

306

8.32 Friend List Members Table

306

Problem

306

Solution

307

Discussion

307

8.33 Retrieving a User’s Friend Lists

307

Problem

307

Solution

307

Discussion

307

8.34 Retrieving a Specific Friend List

307

Problem

307

Solution

307

Discussion

308

8.35 Retrieving Friends in Friend Lists

308

Problem

308

Solution

308

Discussion

308

8.36 Retrieving Friends in a Specific Friend List

308

Problem

308

Solution

308

Discussion

308

8.37 Groups Table

308

Problem

308

Solution

309

Discussion

309

8.38 Group Member Table

309

Problem

310

Solution

310

Discussion

310

8.39 Retrieving a Specific Group

310

Problem

310

Solution

310

Discussion

311

8.40 Retrieving a User’s Groups

311

Problem

311

Solution

311

Discussion

311

8.41 Checking Whether Two Users Are in the Same Group

311

Problem

311

Solution

311

Discussion

312

8.42 Listing Table

312

Problem

312

Solution

313

Discussion

313

8.43 Retrieving a Listing

313

Problem

313

Solution

313

Discussion

314

8.44 Retrieving a User’s Listings

314

Problem

314

Solution

314

Discussion

314

8.45 Retrieving a User’s Friends’ Listings

314

Problem

314

Solution

314

Discussion

314

8.46 Retrieving a User’s Listings by Category

314

Problem

314

Solution

315

Discussion

315

8.47 Page Table

315

Problem

315

Solution

317

Discussion

317

8.48 Page Fan Table

317

Problem

317

Solution

318

Discussion

318

8.49 Retrieving a Page

318

Problem

318

Solution

319

Discussion

319

8.50 Retrieving a User’s Pages

319

Problem

319

Solution

319

Discussion

319

8.51 Photo Table

319

Problem

319

Solution

320

Discussion

320

8.52 Photo Tag Table

320

Problem

320

Solution

321

Discussion

321

8.53 Retrieving the 10 Most Recent Photos from a User

321

Problem

321

Solution

321

Discussion

321

8.54 Retrieving All Photos a User Is Tagged In

321

Problem

321

Solution

321

Discussion

322

8.55 User Table

322

Problem

322

Solution

324

Discussion

324

8.56 App Friends

324

Problem

324

Solution

324

Discussion

324

8.57 Birthday Friends

324

Problem

324

Solution

324

Discussion

325

8.58 600 Errors

325

Problem

325

Solution

325

Discussion

326

8.59 Preload FQL

326

Problem

326

Solution and Discussion

327

Chapter 9. Facebook API

327

9.1 What’s an API?

327

Problem

328

Solution

329

Discussion

330

9.2 Getting Started with the Client Library

330

Problem

330

Solution

330

Discussion

330

9.3 RESTing with Facebook

330

Problem

331

Solution

331

Discussion

331

9.4 Storable Data

331

Problem

331

Solution

332

Discussion

332

9.5 Authenticating Users

332

Problem

332

Solution

332

Discussion

336

9.6 Creating a Session Key

336

Problem

336

Solution

336

Discussion

337

9.7 Creating an Infinite Session Key

337

Problem

337

Solution

337

Discussion

339

9.8 Getting a Session (Desktop Only)

339

Problem

339

Solution

339

Discussion

340

9.9 Creating an Auth Token (Desktop Only)

340

Problem

340

Solution

340

Discussion

340

9.10 Making Calls (Desktop Only)

340

Problem

340

Solution

340

Discussion

341

9.11 Logging Out

341

Problem

341

Solution and Discussion

341

9.12 Getting Allocations

341

Problem

342

Solution

342

Discussion

342

9.13 Getting Metrics

342

Problem

342

Solution

342

Discussion

344

FQL equivalent

344

9.14 Getting and Setting Application Properties

344

Problem

344

Solution

344

Discussion

346

9.15 Getting an App’s 4-1-1

346

Problem

346

Solution

347

Discussion

348

9.16 Batching Calls

348

Problem

348

Solution

348

Discussion

349

Return by reference

350

9.17 Getting and Setting Cookies

350

Problem

350

Solution

350

Discussion

351

FQL equivalent

351

9.18 Getting Events

351

Problem

351

Solution

352

Discussion

352

FQL Equivalent

352

9.19 Getting Event Members

352

Problem

352

Solution

352

Discussion

353

FQL equivalent

353

9.20 Refreshing FBML Caches

353

Problem

353

Solution

353

Discussion

354

9.21 Getting a (Ref) Handle on FBML

354

Problem

354

Solution

354

Discussion

354

9.22 Three Story Sizes: Working with Template Bundles

354

Problem

354

Solution

355

Discussion

356

Feed story example: Causes

356

About tokens

357

Getting all of your templates

358

Getting a template bundle

358

Deactivating a template bundle

358

9.23 Publishing News and Mini-Feed Stories

358

Problem

358

Solution

359

Discussion

359

9.24 Story Aggregation

359

Problem

360

Solution

360

Discussion

361

9.25 Setting Info Sections

361

Problem

361

Solution

362

Discussion

362

Getting Info sections

363

Adding options

363

Getting Options

363

9.26 FQL Queries

363

Problem

363

Solution and Discussion

363

9.27 Friends?

363

Problem

364

Solution

364

Discussion

364

FQL equivalent

365

9.28 Get Friends

365

Problem

365

Solution

365

Discussion

365

FQL equivalent

365

9.29 Get Friends Who Use My App

365

Problem

365

Solution

366

Discussion

366

FQL equivalent

366

9.30 Get Friend Lists

366

Problem

366

Solution

366

Discussion

366

FQL equivalent

367

9.31 Get Groups

367

Problem

367

Solution

367

Discussion

367

FQL equivalent

367

9.32 Get Group Members

367

Problem

367

Solution

368

Description

368

FQL equivalent

368

9.33 Creating/Modifying Marketplace Listings

368

Problem

368

Solution

368

Discussion

369

9.34 Get Marketplace Listings

369

Problem

369

Solution

370

Discussion

370

FQL equivalent

370

9.35 Get Marketplace Categories and Subcategories

370

Problem

370

Solution

370

Discussion

371

9.36 Deleting Marketplace Listings

371

Problem

371

Solution

371

Discussion

371

9.37 Searching the Marketplace

371

Problem

371

Solution

371

Discussion

372

9.38 Sending Notifications

372

Problem

372

Solution

373

Discussion

373

Sending to friends

374

Monitoring allocations

374

9.39 Get Notifications

374

Problem

374

Solution

374

Discussion

374

9.40 Get Pages

374

Problem

375

Solution

375

Discussion

375

FQL equivalent

375

9.41 Checking Page Properties

375

Problem

375

Solution

376

Discussion

376

9.42 Create a Photo Album

376

Problem

376

Solution

376

Discussion

377

9.43 Get Photo Albums

377

Problem

377

Solution

377

Discussion

378

9.44 Get Photos

378

Problem

378

Solution

378

Discussion

379

FQL equivalent

379

9.45 Uploading a Photo

379

Problem

379

Solution

379

Discussion

380

9.46 Adding Tags to Photos

380

Problem

380

Solution

380

Discussion

380

9.47 Getting and Setting Profile FBML

380

Problem

381

Solution

381

Discussion

383

9.48 Get a User’s Info

383

Problem

383

Solution

383

Discussion

383

FQL equivalent

383

9.49 Get Logged-In User

383

Problem

383

Solution

383

Discussion

384

9.50 Has a User Added My App?

384

Problem

384

Solution

384

Discussion

384

9.51 Setting Status

384

Problem

384

Solution

384

Discussion

385

9.52 Extended Permissions

385

Problem

385

Solution

386

Discussion

386

9.53 Checking Extended Permissions

386

Problem

386

Solution

386

Discussion

387

9.54 Storing Data with the Data Store API

387

Problem

387

Solution

390

Discussion

390

9.55 Granting Permissions to Other Applications Via the Permissions API

390

Problem

391

Solution

391

Discussion

392

9.56 Post-Remove (Uninstall) URL

392

Problem

392

Solution

392

Discussion

393

9.57 Adding Missing PHP Client Library Methods

393

Problem

393

Solution

395

Discussion

395

9.58 Error Codes

395

Problem

395

Solution

396

Discussion

397

Chapter 10. Marketing Your App

397

10.1 Attracting Users Through Facebook Ads

397

Problem

397

Solution

398

Discussion

401

10.2 Monetize, Measure, and Market with SocialMedia

401

Problem

401

Solution

401

Discussion

403

10.3 Social Network Advertising with Cubics

403

Problem

403

Solution

403

Discussion

404

10.4 Other Ad Networks

404

Problem

404

Solution

404

Discussion

404

10.5 Spreading Your App via Google AdWords

404

Problem

404

Solution

405

Discussion

405

10.6 Measuring Your Success

405

Problem

405

Solution

405

Discussion

405

Virality

406

Engagement

406

How to measure

407

10.7 Work the Integration Points

407

Problem

407

Solution

407

Discussion

407

10.8 Continuous Improvement Through A/B Testing

407

Problem

407

Solution

408

Discussion

408

10.9 The Great Apps Program

408

Problem

408

Solution

408

Discussion

409

10.10 Application Verification Program

409

Problem

409

Solution

409

Discussion

411

Index

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