Interview on 7php.com
Over the holidays I was e-mailed by Khayrattee Wasseem, who runs 7php.com. Check out his blog, as well as my interview!
Yesterday, Ed Finkler (aka Funkatron), posted a blog called ‘The MicroPHP Manifesto,’ in which he describes why he thinks people need to get back to basics and look at small, concise libraries. He likened the current trend of PHP turning into Java to rock n’ roll drum sets. He compared the massive drum sets of prog rock bands like Rush (representing massive frameworks) to the simple ones of bands like Black Flag (micro frameworks). Many people seem to be focusing on this analogy instead of what Ed was trying to get at.
Building Facebook Apps – The PHP SDK
If you’ve been keeping up with the latest series of posts on building Facebook applications, you know that we’ve added our application into Facebook, and then we built a basic application using Javascript. This does pretty good when we can control everything client-side, but what happens when we need to do something on the server?
Facebook (currently) gives us four different SDKs: Javascript, iOS, Android, and PHP. Today we’re going to dig into the PHP SDK and build a basic server-side application.
In our first part of these tutorials, we added our application to Facebook. The reason that we do this is so that Facebook will allow our application to not only be useable on their platform, but to allow our application to use data stored in Facebook. Before we dive into server-side development, let’s take a look at the client-side platform – the JavaScript SDK.
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Facebook apps are a part of society now. From fancy flash games to simple polls, almost everyone uses them. There will come a time in your development career where you will have to build something that interacts with Facebook. I’m on my second one this week, and a third one starting next week.
Facebook has tried to foster a developer community through SDKs and development wikis, but much of this information is spread out. Over the next few posts, I’ll take a look at building a basic Facebook app from end-to-end in an attempt to gather many of the answers I’ve found over the last week.
First we need to tell Facebook about our application…
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