Build a Facebook application with Zend Framework
May 12th, 2009
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You can integrate your application with facebook in two way: with an IFRAME (using XFBML) or with FBML.
You can embed your content in a Facebook page through FBML or use an IFRAME
Facebook will be a proxy between your server and the user’s browser: it will load a page form your own server like a normal browser, parse it, “enhance” it with his components and then embed it in a Facebook page. You will use standard HTML tags plus FBML tags.
Pros:
- You can use almost standard HTML, but with some other tags like:
, - Feature rich: with a simple tag integrate wall, comments, tabs, dashboard and many others components (Complete list of facebook tags)
- The url in the browser follow the navigation
- Faster when you need data from facebook database (groups, friends, etc.)
Cons:
- Slower page load times: restart the facebook chat at every request
- Can’t use standard JavaScript, only FBJS that’s almost equals but your existing scripts and libraries won’t work
- Its losing ground: Facebook is trying to take IFRAME/XFBML on par