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Facebook applications are written in a server-side language, and hosted on the application developer's own server. They interface with Facebook, so that they appear to users to be part of Facebook itself.

This book shows PHP developers how to quickly get started building powerful Facebook applications, how to work with data stored in Facebook, including photos, and how to handle multimedia and other custom data within Facebook applications.

The book covers how to send notifications and invitations from within an application, update a user's profile, create application control panels for users, and much more.

What you will learn from this book?

Learn Facebook application development through step-by-step examples.

Build data-driven Facebook applications, work with friends lists, photo galleries, multimedia, and more.

Work with Facebook's security model to produce applications that are safe and functional.

Communicate with users through newsfeeds, notifications, invitations, and messages.

Learn the Facebook PHP API, and the various markup languages you'll need to build Facebook applications: Mock Ajax, FBML, FBJS (a variant of JavaScript especially for Facebook), and FQL.