If you’re unlucky, you may have a few users who like to spoil the fun for all the other users using your application on Facebook or even Facebook-connected apps. Luckily, the Graph API lets you easily ban or unban users from using your application.
Facebook, Facebook Graph API, PHPTracking Facebook Shares on your website or application is a useful way of seeing how popular your articles are with your readers. In order to tracking Shares, you must used the Facebook JavaScript SDK.
Facebook, Facebook Graph API, JavaScript, jQuery, Tracking, TutorialThe Facebook API lets you post status updates (message, links, photos etc) to your timeline via the API. This is handy if you want to have automatic sharing in your application (assuming users have consented to it) to post uploaded photos, links etc.
Facebook, Facebook Graph API, Tutorial
For Halloween, I helped wonga.com reskin an old app they had originally developed with a third-party agency. The app used Adobe Flash as the main user interface, with a PHP / MySQL backend.
Application, Facebook, Wonga.comUse the new Facebook Notifications API to send app notifications to your users, instead of using emails or requests. No additional permissions required.
Facebook, Facebook Graph API, NotificationsAn example of adding Facebook plugins to a YouTube video with some simple styling to make a professional looking page.
Facebook, Facebook Social Plugins, YouTubeFacebook still restrict the “square” image to 50px by 50px. Here is a clever way of generating a new thumbnail image for the user (on the fly) using the Facebook Graph API and the PHP GD2 library.
Facebook, Facebook Graph API, GD2, Image Manipulation
