Category: Facebook

  • Facebook, Photos, and You!

    The Facebook Application API is quite extensive and allows you to get and set many different aspects of a user’s Facebook information.

    Today, we are going to discuss using the Facebook API to create an album, if it doesn’t already exist, and add a photo to that album. (more…)

  • Facebook Development and $_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’]

    If you are new to creating Facebook applications or even if you’re not.  When you go to use $_SERVER[‘HTTP_REFERER’] you might be in for a surprise when this _SERVER variable does not exist!

    Just recently I encountered this problem, when I thought about it for a few seconds it made sense why the variable wasn’t there.  Your server cannot properly track the history because every page request in your Facebook application occurs through a request from a Facebook server, not the user them self. (more…)