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An Introduction to FBML | 20bits

Started by Jesse Farmer · 7 months ago

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  • megan m

    2 years ago

    Hey thank you very very much! This did help me a lot!
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  • Jesse

    2 years ago

    Glad to be of service. :)

    I tried adding the link to the developer Wiki but it was removed with the note "doesn't say a lot." I think it doesn't say a lot to people who aren't familiar with the Facebook platform. C'est la vie.
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  • Harry

    2 years ago

    I think you covered most thing that the bad official documentation leaves out.

    I think you should talk about the authentication process though rather than linking to another page which was mostly intended for external applications.

    Good job.
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  • Jesse

    2 years ago

    Harry,

    After writing an application from the ground up I totally agree. The authentication process is a big black box of mystery. I'll have something up in a few days
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  • mario romero

    2 years ago

    great article, infinite sessions, and when and how to use them is another mystery to me.
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  • Michael

    2 years ago

    Sorry cause i post this question here, but i did't find an email address where to ask this: you have a page with your projects: http://20bits.com/projects/. can we see any details about them? "behaviour.js revisited" for instance looks interesting to me. thanks
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  • plod

    1 year ago

    umm.. i'm not very good at creating these sorts of things.. does anyone know where i can get them?
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  • Marie

    1 year ago

    Thanks for your post, Jesse! I'm currently attempting to create an application, but my technological knowledge is close to- if not- a flat zero. So I'm going to ask a few dumb questions that you'll probably laugh at, but hopefully answer. :)
    Would it be easier to us FBML or iframe? Also, how do I find/use a hosting website?
    Thanks!
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  • Prasad

    1 year ago

    "If you enter as the callback URL http://mydomain.com/myapp/ then all requests directed to http://facebook.com/myapp will go to http://mydomain.com/myapp"

    The above idea does not seem to hold good. Callback urls seem to independent of the facebook.com/XYZ .....can you please confirm or elaborate on this.]

    Thanks in advance.
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  • Jesse

    1 year ago

    Prasad,

    You're right, although that's not precisely what I said. If you have a callback URL of foo.mysite.com then facebook.com/myapp/ would go to foo.mysite.com.

    They're 100% independent. I shouldn't have used the same URLs because it'd cause exactly that confusion.
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  • Jamie

    1 year ago

    Thanks for this information, it's helped quite a bit. A question re iframes though:

    I've developed an iframe application using asp/vbscript, and am at the point now where the big things left to do are intergrate the "invite friends" section as well as put in the ability to feed info to users' profiles.

    After reading your article I assume this can only be done in fbml? Since all my pages are .asp , would it suffice to use fbml for the invite users/feed sections? I've been looking through the documentation on Facebook and on the net for a number of days but haven't come across anything on developing apps in asp, just php and some asp.net.

    I'm starting to think I'll have to learn php and re-code the entire application :( Any hints?
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  • Jesse

    1 year ago

    Jamie,

    There's a way to use the invite UI with iframe apps. I forget how it works in detail, but it basically sends you off to an external page and then redirects back to your app with the results.

    Look up the fb:request-form tag on the Facebook wiki. It should be documented there.
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  • faree

    1 year ago

    can you guys help me with my application? it just looks like a group that people can add it and thats it! i want it to be visible in the users' profiles, add features to it, etc.
    thanks
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  • Yossi

    1 year ago

    Hey, thanks for the great article. am building an application using the microsoft .net toolkit and managed to build all "dashboard" page. its quite simple to build these pages coz they are actualy running from my server (iframes pages), but when it comes to displaying user data in a box on his profile page i couldnt understant how it works. i understand that only fbml is allowed there but couldnt understand how can i use this fbml to call my server and fetch the user data. do you have any suggestion? Thanks.
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  • Fab

    1 year ago

    Hello,

    I am developing a facebook application on .net technology to do character analysis.Once the survey for this is done, the application result needs to be appeared in the profile page.I tried html iframe,
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  • Priyesh

    1 year ago

    I dont have webserver i.e Didn't parches domain .....in this case how can i Test and run facebook application from local host ...is it possible ???


    Thanks
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  • albert

    9 months ago

    thanks for the information!
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  • dc

    5 months ago

    great doc! many thx
    reply
  • Jake Thompson

    4 months ago

    does anybody know how to upload your fbml to facebook, I have made an app but dont know how to upload it.
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  • developer

    2 months ago

    just read the above article once again.
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  • Sharp Liao

    3 months ago

    nice article
    reply

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