Comments on: Developing a Facebook Application for absolute beginners – step 5

By: Jeff Mullen

Jeff Mullen — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:12:56 +0000

There’s still a step missing! For Part 6, you need to have the application post a count of the number of the user’s friends who actually use the application. This will demonstrate two things that are vital to all but the most trivial of facebook applications:

1) Persistent data (you’re going to have to store that count somewhere)

and

2) An application that responds to successful invites. This is something that even a simple gifting application like iHearts can do, so it shouldn’t be hard to code.

These tutorials are awfully good, but they’d be the next closest thing to perfection if you could just write that one more part!

By: kashif

kashif — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:53:24 +0000

Man this series of tutorials is awesome, i was searching for such tutorials from many months but never found such as yours which is very easy to understand, Thanks for all this information.

By: Jeff Mullen

Jeff Mullen — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:50:19 +0000

I am disappointed in this tutorial. It lacks a demonstration of the one technique that is necessary to build any but the most trivial of applications: storing a value on facebook that is associated with a given user when he interacts with the application and retrieving it again during a subsequent interaction. In part 5, an example would be to maintain a count of the friends who had accepted the invitation, that the user who did the inviting could see any time he or she signed onto the application. This would be trivial to implement, but would show what is necessary to write even the most complex of applications. Alas, it is not included in the tutorial, and the tutorial is thus incomplete.

By: Ankit Chauhan

Ankit Chauhan — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:30:01 +0000

Hi
in my facebook.php, I have not seen notifications_send(). So can you please send me the facebook function call or facebook.php

thanks

By: Arpit

Arpit — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 01:26:24 +0000

Awesome.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:40:29 +0000

Yes, since March 1st notifications_send is no more available:
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Notifications.send

By: Bethy

Bethy — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:45:33 +0000

Very detailed description, a beginner in FA development will make an easy start!

By: David

David — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:40:29 +0000

Looks like this code throws an exception error now.. must be a change to Facebook.. throws it in the code, and in your demo.

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:31:38 +0000

Thanks for a great tutorial.

I have a question regarding updates of the wall. When the index.php is updated with a new message, how can the app refresh/update the wall without having the user visiting the canvas page again?

All permissions have been enabled.

Thx

By: Mohsin

Mohsin — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:04:36 +0000

Hey Emanuele !!!

You simply rock!!!This article was so helpful and so simple and easy to understand that even a novice like me was able to understand and follow it. Anxiously waiting for the “finetuning to give a professional look” and “monetizing” articles.
Thanks :)