The Facebook juggernaut is an interesting environment for
application developers. It is well documented for the most part
and supports all the popular development languages. So I created
a quick app to help promote MySQL certification and gave it the
name MySQLQuiz.
The first step in app development is at the bottom of every
Facebook page. That is where you will find the 'Developers' link.
The documentation here is very good and you will be be able to
quickly obtain the application's API Key and the applications
'secret'. Each app is going to have unique values for
these.
The examples I will give are in PHP and using the supplied PHP
library. I was able to get all this running on a test
server.
The bare bones was
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<?php
require_once 'facebook.php';
$appapikey = "yourappapikeyhere";
$appsecret = "yourappsecrethere";
$facebook = new Facebook($appapikey, …