Facebook API
June 14, 2007 | In: Programming
I’ve been kind of silent here as I’ve been trying to keep this blog at least somewhat focused on ColdFusion and I’ve been doing development in some different languages as of late (Java, PHP, and Ruby). However, when Facebook released their API for developers, my summer assistant Phil started hacking away at it and we’ve released our first app for Facebook: SwemTools.
It does a couple of things, provides a search interface for both the online catalog and our website, news feeds, hours, and a bit of a neat application based on Swem Signal that was created by Tom MacWright.
We’re still working on the code for the Signals part, but the idea is that on a map of the library, you’d be able to see where your friends are. Right now, you can see a dot where your friends are, but not who they are…but we’re working on a solution for it.
Anyway, if you’re on Facebook, check it out…you can add me as a friend too.
2 Responses to Facebook API
Marc
February 4th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Hi Graham, I wanted to firstly say how impressive your site ise, very kewl!!! I have recently been writing an ap for Facebook, using the only book that makes any sense which is yours…. I have followed the book page by page dilegently taking in your hints and tips, and descided as a first stake that I would write something simular to your games review, accept its focused on books and resources for Life Coaches (which is what I am when not playing with software)
However a couple of things have come up and I still really dont understand AWS full to get what I want to do…
the first thing that keeps coming up and I am unsure how to resolve is: “HTML error while rendering tag “img”: Relative URLs not allowed here” there seems to be a lot of questions out there regarding this and facebook however no real answers, I assume you must have had this working at somestage.
The second question is I want to use AWS to bring the image back of a book cover based upon an ISBN being entered, any ideas how I would modify amazon.php to use the aws?
Look forward to hearing back from you.
Regards Marc
Wayne
February 24th, 2009 at 10:44 am
<p>Marc,</p>
<p>Sorry for the delay…I recently changed jobs and had a second child and have been running behind in almost every facet of my life.</p>
<p>One of the bad things about writing the Facebook API book is that the API was changing weekly while I was writing it. There was very little documentation for the functions at the time, so I had to keep rewriting a lot of the code as the book progressed.</p>
<p>With that said, the best I can do is point you to Tyler Hall’s php-aws project (http://code.google.com/p/php-aws/) which should handle communications with AWS far better than the Amazon wrapper I wrote for the book.</p>
<p>Cheers,<br />
Wayne</p>