Facebook tab & app development portal and FAQs

Recently, we are developing Facebook tab & App.

I would like to share some basic documents and concepts with you;

We hope to help you understand some basic concepts, resources, and preliminary development of Facebook.

Facebook has become an important corporate promotion platform, activity and advertising platform, as well as a wide range of applications and games.
 

 

Facebook tab & app development

• What is Tab
  • Https://developers.facebook.com/docs/appsonfacebook/pagetabs/
  • Maximum width is 520px.
  • Tab can add to a page.
• What is page
  • This is a page sample http://www.facebook.com/Microsoft
  • How can I create a page for testing? Http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php
  • Publish status of page
    • In the top of page, it is not published if you see following information (you shocould have admin permission)

• • • Only page admin can assess page if it is not published
• What is Facebook app
  • Http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/canvas/
  • For developer, check this out for more information http://developers.facebook.com/docs/appsonfacebook/tutorial/
  • Maximum width is 760px
• Pre-condition (before development)
  • You are developer in Facebook website
  • You are administrator of this tab Application
  • You are admin of page (if you want to add a tab to a page)
  • Usually, all Facebook tab & page shocould support both HTTP & https
  • You have your own website to deploy tab & page application
• Create a new tab or application
  • Open https://developers.facebook.com/apps
  • Click create new app in the right side

• • Following 3 tabs are important (Configure site URL to local path, let we can debug in our local environment)

• • Site URL is the root path of your website (all rest of URL shocould start with value of site URL)
  • Rest 4 URLs are entry point of tab & App
  • Facebook will call these entry point via http post with signed_request Information
    • Http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/signed_request/
    • Signed_reuqest include some important information
    • Does user like this page or application
  • User's assecctoken
  • Configuration of sandbox
    • Settings-> advanced
    • Enable sandbox Mode means that only admin can access this tab & App

 

FAQ:

• Authorization
  • Oauth 2.0
• Basic
  • Recommend all page in your website include Facebook script and initialization code
• Recommend we have individual page to handle entry point
• Plugins
  • Http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
  • Use FB. event. subscribe to monitor event (ie: User Login)
  • Http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/FB.Event.subscribe/
  • IFRAME cannot fire event (Please use xfbml)
  • Use JavaScript to call FB. UI to fire plugins
• How can we know if user likes our page or not?
  • Get information from signed_request
• How can we remove scroll bar in tab & page
  • Style in Body element: overflow: hidden
  • Call FB. Canvas. setsize
  • Http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/FB.Canvas.setSize/
• How can we grab information from Facebook (Graph API & fql)
  • We can get public information from Facebook API
  • We have to get accesstoken if we want to access private information
  • We can get accesstoken signed_request
  • We can get accesstoken from any login page
    • From FB. login in Javascript
    • From login. php
  • After we get accesstoken
  • Http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/
  • If we don't get enough permission from user, we may not grab Information
• Library
  • . Net http://facebooksdk.codeplex.com/
  • Javascript http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/
  • PHP https://github.com/facebook/php-sdk

 

I hope these Facebook-related materials will help you develop a general concept for Facebook,