Drupal for Facebook (fb)
What is Drupal for facebook?
Drupal for facebook is a module that allows you to create an application for the facebook social networking site from content living in your drupal site.
Warnings
This is an early development release of Drupal for Facebook. Expect things to change. Also, note that even if you are running PHP5, Drupal for Facebook uses the PHP4 facebook client API by default, because of problem with uncaught exceptions. (Most likely PHP5 will become the default when Drupal for Facebook is ported to Drupal 6.x.) If you experience problems, please check the Common Issues section
Topics Covered
Additional Resources
Drupal for Facebook project page: http://www.drupal.org/project/fb
Demos
- BADCamp Demo App
Example of an app that would allow a user to create their own blog that posts to their profile page. See the screencast to see it setup. - Drupal for Facebook App - The latest development updates, and a working example of the latest code.
Screencasts
- BADCamp Screencasts - Part 1 and 2 - Part 1 demos the app, while part 2 goes into the setup
Videos
- Drupal for Facebook Presentation at DrupalCon 2007 - Dave Cohen talks about what a facebook app is, what drupal for facebook is, and what the future of this project might be.
General Facebook Application Resources
- FB Developers wiki - very useful
- FBML code testing console check your FBML output to make sure your everything is kosher, will be great for creating a new FBML theme
- FB Developer Resources - download the client library (get php4), Development guides, Anatomy of a facebook app.
- The simplexml4 package on Sourceforge - Required by Drupal for facebook and not included in the Facebook Client.
Please contribute
If you would like to contribute to this documentation, you just need to be added to the documentation list. (easy step) or you can post suggestions and issues to the issues queue.