Friendster Developers Platform

fbOpen Getting Started Guide

This step-by-step guide describes how to create an app with the Facebook compatible fbOpen platform. You will need a web site to host your server side app.

Supported features

Friendster supports FBML, FQL and FBJS as detailed in this section.

FBML Tags:

API Calls:

These APIs can be accessed at the endpoint http://api.friendster.com/v2/restserver.php.

The feed API is coming soon, the feed.publishUserAction and feed.registerTemplateBundle calls currently return success with no data so that you do not need to remove these calls from your application.

FQL Tables:

FBJS:

FBJS DOM Objects, Events, AJAX and Dialogs are supported.

Creating and Registering your fbOpen app

You can create and register a simple PHP app using FBML by following these steps:

1. Include in your code the Facebook API library from here .
2. Go to www.friendster.com/developer and click on the 'Get API Key' link.
3. Enter the app name and the Callback URL to your server side app as shown here, then choose 'Use FBML'.


4. After you click on the 'Save' button you should see your app listed on Manage Apps.
5. Update your app with the Api Key and Secret listed there. You can then run it by clicking on 'Test App'.

Submitting your App to the App Directory

Once your app is fully tested, you can click on 'Submit to app directory' to make it visible to all Friendster users. The following information must be valid:

Sample Code
To run this sample app just substitute your api key and secret and make this file accessible through the Callback URL.

	<?php
	
	require_once 'friendster.php';
	
	$appapikey = '<ENTER YOUR API KEY HERE>';
	$appsecret = '<ENTER YOUR SECRET KEY HERE>';
	$friendster = new Friendster($appapikey, $appsecret);
	$user_id = $friendster ->require_login();
	
	// Greet the currently logged-in user!
	echo "<p>Hello, <fb:name uid=\"$user_id\" useyou=\"false\" />!</p>";
	
	// Print out at most 25 of the logged-in user's friends,
	// using the friends.get API method
	echo "<p>Friends:";
	$friends = $friendster ->api_client->friends_get();
	$friends = array_slice($friends, 0, 25);
	foreach ($friends as $friend) {
	  echo "
	$friend";
	}
	echo "</p>";
	

Integration points within the Friendster website

The following are the current integration points within the Friendster website: