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Facebook Graph API Development with Flash
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The Graph is a terrific model for accessing the data in Facebook; it manages to take the huge amount of information on the site and make it easy and simple to access it.
Sometimes, however, we want a little extra control and a little extra power. That's where FQL comes in. It's a programming language designed for searching the Facebook databases – and it doesn't use the Graph.
In this chapter we shall:
Recap the different models of data representation and visualization
Get comfortable with FQL by using it to grab some Facebook data
Learn how to use FQL to do (almost) anything we could do with the Graph
Discover what the Graph is better at than FQL
Find out how to detect which extended permissions have been granted
Look at some advanced FQL features
So let's get on with it...
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