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Facebook Graph API Development with Flash

By : Michael James Williams
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Facebook Graph API Development with Flash

By: Michael James Williams

Overview of this book

The Facebook platform provides you with an ideal solution for building rich, social experiences on the web to develop an effective user experience application. Combined with Flash which effectively enables social interactions, you can create a fully functional application on Facebook. If you've been waiting to get started with your own applications and games on Facebook, with this book you don't have to wait any longer.This book takes you through everything you need to know to integrate your AS3 apps and games with Facebook accompanied by illustrative screenshots and short quizzes.It presents you with in depth coverage of the key underlying concepts such as creating a basic application that runs inside Facebook and exploring the Graph API which greatly simplifies how developers can retrieve data. This book also covers topics on security, permissions and authentication features on Facebook.This beginner's guide starts off by teaching you about retrieving simple public data and then rapidly working your way up to authenticating users, building powerful searches across the entire database, and uploading photos and other content. Throughout the book, you'll learn by building two fundamental components: an RIA Facebook interface and an AS3 SDK that you can drop into any project to add Facebook integration. This easy-to-understand guide has everything written as AS3-only projects with publicly available components, so you can follow along whether you use Flash Pro, Flex, or MXMLC – as long as you know AS3! This hands-on tutorial will present you with a whole new perspective of the three core aspects of Facebook – searching, retrieving, and updating the data .This practical book focuses on how to set up an application on Facebook and how to deal with different contexts like AIR.By the end of this book, you will be confident enough to set up your own application and create social interactions for users to share on Facebook.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Facebook Graph API Development with Flash Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Publishing other kinds of Graph Object


All the types of Graph Object that can be created can be created with the same basic steps as a Wall Post:

  • Use POST HTTP request method

  • Set parameters with a URLVariables object

  • Make sure that you have an access token and the required permissions

The Graph List Renderer's Publish button always creates a window with inputs that are appropriate to the Graph List being rendered, and this in turn always passes its values to the publish() function of CustomGraphContainerController, inside a PublishObject instance, so you can experiment with the different types.

The PublishObject also includes the type of connection to which the user is attempting to publish, in a property called connectionType. You can use this to decide which parameters to pass to the Graph, and also to construct the Graph URL to POST these parameters to.

An up-to-date list of the properties of each Graph Object that can be set when publishing them can be found through the documentation, available...