How to Do Everything

The first book to show how to create apps for the hottest social networking site

This hands-on guide teaches you how to build applications that run on the most popular social networking site among college students, professionals and business users. Written in the popular, easy-tofollow How to Do Everything format, this book is designed to enable even those with minimal technical skills to create Facebook Platform applications.

With coverage of all the technologies involved, including Facebook Platform API, FBML, FQL, MySQL, and REST, How to Do Everything: Facebook Applications provides a single source of structured guidance that is far easier to understand than the disparate tutorials available on the Web. You will learn how integrate Facebook applications with websites and databases, and use your applications to sell a product or market a business, non-profit organization, or political cause. A pre-built, customizable Facebook application will be available for download.