For those who want to exercise their creativity and receive a true one to one response from users, I suggest you to write a Facebook application. (If you have the idea)
- The Requirements:
- 1. Idea
- 2. Knowledge of programming, every IT graduate must have the knowledge otherwise he / she has cheated in the exams
- 3. Know the Facebook rules
- 4. Facebook Installed on your host or an Accelerated Facebook hosting
- 5. Good friends who add your application and their friends and so on
- 6. ....
Problems I faced at the beginning
- 1. I didn't know what does this means
- "require_once '/home/-----/facebook/facebook-platform/client/facebook.php';"
- I thought this file is on Facebook server and after hours of struggle, I found out that I have to have facebook api on my host.
- 2. I couldn't make it work on my own host so I used an accelerated facebook host
- 3. I'm a VB.net programmer and the resources for facebook .net application development were few.
4. So I chose php, since I have learned C languages at college, it was little easy little tough to write php applications.
What amazed me in Facebook
- 1. Facebook animation
- 2. <fb swf> tag, <fb:request-form tag and all other FBML tags
- 3. The most amazing developer site, API and FBML Test consol, Wiki pages, ...
- 4. And finally how it shows the uid list. It gets uid, loads the photo, checks your network
This tutorial really helped understand what's going on
http://www.howtoforge.com/rss_facebook_app_php_p5
and the accelerated facebook host is a good startup option
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