1. RadPHP XE – Creating Facebook applications
José León Serna – Embarcadero Technologies

2. Facebook sucks
• Yes, Facebook sucks!!
• API changes constantly
• Test servers sometimes hang up
• Debugging is very hard

3. 500 million users
•500 million users
•500 million potential
customers

4. Overview
• How Facebook application works

5. Basic application setup
• FBApplication
• Render Method

6. Registering into Facebook
• Application ID and Application Secret
• Canvas Page
• Canvas URL
• Canvas Type
• IFrame Size

7. Database design
• Simple table to store lent stuff
• Setting up the DataModule

8. Requiring the user to be logged
• Use must authorize the application
• We can get the ID of the logged user

9. Developing the Index page
• Title
• DBRepeater
• Operations

10. Adding new stuff
• FBFriendSelector
• Getting the information to store
• Adding the record

11. Deleting stuff
• Executing the action
• Deleting the record

12. Conclusion
• Facebook opens up a lot of possibilities for
applications
• A framework to interact with users
• Social plugins

13. THANK YOU!!
• jose.leon@embarcadero.com
• http://www.joseleon.es
• http://twitter.com/qadram