I will spend some posts to talk about applications on facebook, and what to do to create one.
For sure you know this great social network, but I’m not so sure you know that it is very easy to create and publish applications on it.
You can even use your favourite language to create the application, as the whole application will work through internet.
I have chosen PHP, but you can work in DotNet or one of the many other languages that can produce webpages.
Why did I choose PHP?
Mainly because it is free and because I like the fact that I can develop in the same platform used by Facebook itself.
Now, everybody can download for free the Facebook PHP API.
You will find also a sample application, in order to get started easily.
Before starting developing, you will need to register on the developer application, within Facebook. You will be given a KEY, to use in your code.
Using a mix of API and FBML, the facebook markup language, you will then be able to add easily friends lists and other FB features to your pages.
SQL lovers will soon discover that they can use FQL, the facebook query language, to create queries qnd obtain data.
