Chapter 10
Understanding the Essentials — Basic API Calls Every Developer Should Know
In This Chapter
- Working with objects and accessing their data
- Publishing to Facebook and deleting objects with Facebook Graph API
- Understanding FQL to simplify API requests
Facebook Platform is a constantly evolving set of APIs, so covering everything you can do is a shot in the dark. By the time you read this book, you might find many more APIs and opportunities to integrate with Facebook. Facebook may have completely redone its API. Heck, just in the process of writing this book, Facebook removed its entire, original FBML (Facebook Markup Language, not to be confused with XFBML, which still, and will continue to exist) with not many guidelines on what would replace it. Such is the life of a social API developer!
Whatever you do, always make sure that you're checking the Facebook Developer docs to ensure that you're getting updated on anything I may miss. As Perl programmers are all too familiar with, “There's more than one way to do it.” In this chapter, I cover just a few things that you can do with Facebook Platform and Graph API.
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