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Flash Facebook Cookbook

By : James Ford
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Flash Facebook Cookbook

By: James Ford

Overview of this book

Flash applications are popular and becoming increasingly social. With flash applications for facebook you can tap into a potential audience of half a billion existing users, their connections and affiliations, their uploaded images, posts, comments and more.The Flash Facebook Cookbook is packed with recipes for the Graph API and FQL, used for reading and writing data as well as interacting with Facebook anonymously or on behalf of an authorised Facebook User.The topics covered by the recipes in this Cookbook include working with News feeds, uploading Photos, searching for and plotting Places on a map and much more. The cookbook has recipes ranging from those that work without any authentication with Facebook to those that do, and act on behalf of a user. Packed with recipes that yield practical demonstrations of the Graph API functionality, the Flash Facebook Cookbook is an essential tool for Flash Platform developers.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Flash Facebook Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
10
Checkins and Facebook Places

Chapter 4. Reading and Writing Data with the Graph API

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Building a 'Test Console' for the Graph API

  • Loading a Graph API object from Facebook

  • Loading specific data fields for a Graph API object

  • Loading Graph API connections

  • Loading multiple Graph API objects in a single request

  • Limiting request lengths and paging results

  • Filtering requests to a specific time period

  • Loading a Facebook profile image

  • Using the search capabilities of the Graph API

  • Creating, editing, and deleting Graph API objects