Karlos94 Posted June 10, 2010 Posted June 10, 2010 Lately there has been a lot of discussing about Facebook due to Spudinski and Haunted Dawg and their future Social Bookmarking modification/plug-in. However there was obviously going to be a slight opposition against this, myself being one of them. However recently on Nettuts+ there has been a tutorial released on how to authenticate users and how to connect to the Facebook API. The tutorial shows how to connect to the Facebook API via the OAuth 2.0 protocol, although the tutorial shows how to about the lazy registration it can be very informative. The tutorial link is: How to Authenticate Users With Facebook Connect. Quote
Djkanna Posted June 10, 2010 Posted June 10, 2010 I read that tutorial a little while ago. It seems interesting but not something I think would be very appealing to this audience to be honest I just cannot see some people here putting in the extra effort to do this :S Quote
Karlos94 Posted June 10, 2010 Author Posted June 10, 2010 Well I do agree with you, but some may however. Personally if they can't put in the extra effort to do this, they aren't appealing to everyone! I hope at least someone has a go, even if they fail it's at least the thought they have tried to implant it. Quote
acter Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 was anyone able to successfully connect their game as a facebook app?? Quote
Karlos94 Posted January 17, 2011 Author Posted January 17, 2011 I don't believe anyone tried because I don't think anyone wanted to take a look at the Facebook API. However, I'll take a look myself and I'll get back to you! Quote
Djkanna Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 There's a script here that allows you to create a Facebook game. I've used the Facebook API (PHP & JS) for a couple of projects I simply put I hated it. Quote
rulerofzu Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 I use Facebook connect on Zu. Works pretty well. I also use the like button and will be using commenting shortly. Quote
Dayo Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 There's a script here that allows you to create a Facebook game. I've used the Facebook API (PHP & JS) for a couple of projects I simply put I hated it. Yea the url is http://www.cddesigns.org/fbga/ ;) i prefer the PHP FBML to to the JS SDK but i spose we all have our likes and dislikes Quote
Karlos94 Posted January 18, 2011 Author Posted January 18, 2011 @acter; I've been looking into Facebook connecting tonight. I'm not going to lie, I hated how the system works. However I am looking at a CodeIgniter library at the moment called A3M (Mushmellow) which looks to be something I am looking for. Maybe looking at the source code will help you do this. @Djkanna; I can simply understand where you are coming from. @rulerofzu; Can you tell us if this has had an effect on your site.. For good or worse? Quote
rulerofzu Posted January 18, 2011 Posted January 18, 2011 Karlos the result has been favourable and it is producing some good results with regards to new signups and positive feedback from existing players. Depending on what you require I found this to be quite helpful. https://github.com/facebook/php-sdk/ Quote
Lilith Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 OK, so someday, I hope to have my game finished enough to integrate facebook. But I do believe that Karlos94 has brought some interesting reads to the table. At least interesting as to what they can do for our games. The dawn of social networking has come and gone, and its time we accept that! It is now in full swing and is defining how our clients and future clients interact. Dont believe me? if you have kids, chk their facebook and myspace, want to know what parties and other social events are happening? give it a look, I realize that some of us might be anti social nerds, but our customers aren't always, social gaming is considered cool by the next generation. Karlos94 thanks for the info to help those of us here, who are / are not socially challenged, and the links to at least try and figure it out. BC I know I plan my weekends after looking at facebook, it would be great to have my friends and their friends and their third degree friends spam my game all over the net. WOOTS for free advertising! Quote
Spudinski Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 One thing I have to mention first, in the first post of the thread: the link given has an somewhat outdated method. Second, I wouldn't suggest going for a tutorial when it comes to the FB platform, it's not designed for games or medium sized applications. Most is simple page tutorials that adds a connect button and displays the session info, and a small array of information from the UID. When you eventually get the tutorial in place, not only will you struggle to have it implemented into your website, but you would have a hell of a time trying to figure out how the API actually works. I'd say you go to the documented page for FB API, and choosing what method you want to use. They have made it harder to get the information you need, with the new page layout but just dig deeper to the source code and look through it. There used to be a list of methods a while back. And a good knowledge of PHP is very much required in my opinion. Plus try to learn about the communication between FB and your client first, it will help. Second, the Javascript SDK and PHP API serves different functions. 'nuff said. Third, @Lilith: If you're creating a new site, implementing the FB connect would be much simpler if done from the start. Trying to figure out what should go where afterwards gives especially me a headache most of the times. ------------------------------------------------------ PS. Me and HD decided to abandon this whole modification for MCCodes due to the lack of interest. Funny. Quote
Spudinski Posted March 22, 2012 Posted March 22, 2012 Whatever troll, @Mr. Troll 'le am leonvictor2012. Anyway... I need to study the new Facebook API's for a work project, if anybody is interested, I can write a tutorial or two for using the different APIs. I haven't used the FB API(JS or PHP) since the now Legacy Javascript API though, but I need to learn about the new APIs anyway. +1? 1 Quote
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