In step 1 you learned how to authenticate and select a random friend of yours. In this second part you will learn how to get more information about your friends and how to post the answer on their wall. This is what you will get: and once you hit “Answer and publish” you will post …
Do you know Friend Interview? It’s a Facebook application which asks a random question about a random friend of yours, and publish the result on his wall. I won’t publish a snapshot of such app since it’s full of rubbish and ads, but I am sure you know what I am talking about (and moreover …
While I am preparing a new tutorial about Facebook applications (and a php FB game, maybe HTML5 based), I notice there isn’t any “Hello World” application about Facebook applications using the new Graph API with just some PHP lines. If you don’t know what is the Graph API and don’t want to get an headache …
Horror Profile is a Facebook application I developed a month ago. Now it’s time to release the source code. You will find some useful tips about dynamic image creation with php. If you are absolutely new to Facebook applications, I suggest you to read “Developing a Facebook Application for absolute beginners” posts 1, 2, 3, …
Some days ago I showed you how to create a Flash Facebook application using the AS3 API. Now Yarden Refaeli from Rigel Games is sharing with us his experience in creating a Flash Facebook application using another technique. Let’s read it: « Hello, my name is Yarden Refaeli and I have been flash programmer for …
It’s time to make some considerations on the Facebook application made with the Facebook Actionscript API I blogged some days ago. There was a doubt about putting a secret key in the swf file. Well, you should never give away your secret key, but let me point on two things: 1) You can encrypt your …
It’s time to see how can we build a Flash Facebook application. What we are going to do is a Flash movie to be embedded in a Facebook application, able to interact with the user by publishing notes and stories on the wall. The first thing we need is the official Facebook Actionscript API. This …
You are all invited to try Horror Profile, a Facebook application I made in about an hour. The application takes your name and profile photo, and combines them in a creepy environment to create an horrific photo that you can upload to your album. During next days I’ll release the full tutorial to create an …
Welcome to the 5th step. Let’s make a small recap: Step 1: Creation of the application itself Step 2: Publishing a text on the user’s status Step 3: Publishing text, links and images on the user’s wall Step 4: Inviting friends to use the application Now it’s time to make the application post a notification …
The best way to do some viral marketing through Facebook is using inite forms to allow users to share applications with their friends who might not have otherwise known about them. Since users are invited to use applications by friends, they are (at the moment) likely to view each invite request, providing them an opportunity …