I want to develop a customized shopping cart. I have tried to install 2 shopping carts on my page.
VendorShop
Payvment E-Commerce
But these aren't serving my purpose. So i am thinking to develop my own. Could you give me a head start?
My most important question is, is App development for Facebook Pages is different or its the same?
A quick start guide?
basically app dev for fb pages is pretty much the same as std fb app.
so, to get started, you can just refer to those community generated tutorials / start guide, or refer to fb docs.
I am sorry that I cannot provide the direct link here (as it seems to me that SO does not like it... I tried to do that before but my answer just get banned and down-graded from moderator). If you want to get community generated tutorials, refer to my profile and you can get the link.
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I've never built a Facebook app. All I've done so far is registering my FB account as a developer in https://developers.facebook.com and I saw there are LOADS of tutorials and docs there so it's a bit overwhelming. So I'm looking for some advice on what to read and what to learn (if needed).
I'd like to build an app that adds a "shop" tab on facebook pages, where the user can list their products and add a price, description, etc for it. There should be a shopping cart where the user can check out and be taken to a payment section where I'll integrate it with https://developers.mercadopago.com to generate a payment ticket the user can use to pay. They allow php, .NET, Node.js, Ruby and Python, but I only know a bit of php, .NET and python, so those would be my options to choose from.
Any advice is welcome :)
Thanks!
Read their PHP "Getting Started" guide. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/php/gettingstarted/4.0.0
The Getting Started guides for all APIs are linked from https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ — I would probably check JS next, but you can go your own way from there.
i'm searching the internet for a good howto concerning facebook developing, but can't find it. I created a facebook developer account, i also created an app (which is in developing mode).
But now i'm stuck...
I want to show the events of (my) facebook (fan) page in my Joomla website. I can find (joomla) modules for the website part, but they all say that i need a facebook app. Unfortunately nobody is explaining how you do this...
My question: what do i need to do in the facebook developer portal to create this functionality?
(if there is a representative example somewhere please refer me to it).
Thanks for the time and effort!
Kind regard,
Mijno
When you integrate your blog or cms with an app that you admin, you don't need special permissions.
So just create a facebook developer account.
Go to Apps & create an new app.
Fill in the fields. This will create a standard app and provides you with an App ID and the App Secret. This should be enough.
My wife is starting her local business, and I would like to develop a booking application that users can use to book appointments with. Is this feasible using the facebook development tools? I tried to overview the documentation at https://developers.facebook.com but I came out with no clear answer.
What is a Facebook app?
In layman terms, it's just a window to your actual app with a bonus that you can use Facebook's social data with it. So, yes! Basically, you can pretty much do anything with it. Plus, if you are looking forward to create an app for a local business, I would recommend taking a look at page tabs from here.
Here is how a Facebook app works:
You create an app on your server.
You give it's url to Facebook (called the canvas url).
You specify the dimensions.
And that's it! Your app is up and running!
I am developing a flash game and I want to integrate it with Facebook. It should be very simple integration. My app only need username and e-mail address. I searched the web not I still don't know how to do it. It seems to me very complicated.
All I want is to connect my app to Facebook through Actionscript SDK, with few simple functions.
Can someone help me with a code to do that...I'll be very thankful guys :-)
Well, it's a general question, but here are a few links that might help steer you in the right direction. The first link has the SWC library and some examples:
Facebook ActionScript API resources:
libraries and examples
API documentation (though fairly sparse)
Adobe page
On their page, Adobe links to a tutorial / walkthrough for building a mobile Facebook app that's pretty helpful, though it expands on a desktop-based article and references it regularly, so that can be a bit confusing, but it does get the job done.
Then you need to understand the Facebook Graph API - basically Facebook passes around objects that contain data pertaining to the user, their friends, etc (and of course, passing around this data is subject to the permissions your app has setup). Facebook provides an online tool (Facebook Graph API Explorer) that let's you explore these objects for your own account.
Pouring over this information, I got my first flash-based mobile app talking to Facebook in a few hours. There you go, ask a generic question, get a big swath of links to read that are only semi-related to your question. =D
To my knowledge it isn't possible to create new apps with the graph api from facebook.
But i have seen several tab makers which are apparently able to generate new apps (one of them is the timeline tab maker from 247GRAD). Is this huge number of apps really manually generated?
I would appreciate it very much if someone could give me a hint, how those apps work.
It is not possible to create an application using Graph API.
What you see in the case of Page Tab Applications is generally one application (or several just to have different application icons/images) displaying different content based on page id (from signed_request) for Page is running on.
Many companies are today oriented to design Facebook apps (or tabs) to be integrated in profiles, groups and fan pages. Well Facebook encourages apps development by making easy to do with Graph API with any programming language like PHP5 at first, jQuery, JavaScript, Java, XML...
And Apps or tab makers as you said are developed to help to generate new apps, I think it would boring for a developer to create an app for form contact everyday for each new customer, so with some magic (sure with any programming language) he'll can generate many apps.
So it's a Facebook app that creates Facebook apps!
You could learn about Facebook Graph API from Facebook Developers Documentation on https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/
And learn this tutorial from Facebook on https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/tutorial/ or from an other web sites (Try always to read new tutorials because Facebook API always changes).
Also you can read books, I advice to read this at first : http://books.google.tn/books?id=MnbpygAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:%22Shashwat+Srivastava%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=c5RoT81ek_fhBNXZgbcJ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA and second, http://books.google.tn/books?id=Ec9OkpsrCf8C&pg=PA131&dq=facebook+graph+api&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tpBoT5uKG-OO4gTb-ajaAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=facebook%20graph%20api&f=false
Don't hesitate to ask.
Best regards,
Ali