In My Mind’s Zen Garden

Creating an application in Facebook:

I’ve been toying with the possibilities of intergrating Rice Bowl Journals with Facebook. I know that many members and friends of members also have accounts at Facebook, so it would make sense to somehow integrate the functionality of facebook with Rice Bowl Journals, or vice versa.

The thoughts of this sound pretty exciting to me now. And though the road might be a bit difficult, I’m just going to take things one step at a time.

First off, I added myself to the Developers App over at Facebook, which was pretty simple, actually. And I was given an API Key along with a Secret code.

Then, I added an application called Rice Bowl Journals, and filled out the necessary info for its profile.

I set up a directory on my server that Facebook can point to to make the connection with the RBJ site.

And created a “Hello World!” index.php file.

Here’s my developer page for Rice Bowl Journals.

And here’s the actual page to the Rice Bowl Journals app page on Facebook over at: http://apps.facebook.com/ricebowl

Pretty nifty!!!

That’s a good start… so now I just have to think up an application that could integrate the two sites together, and code it all in PHP!

Haha…. and now the hard part begins……

But once again, I’m open to any suggestions anyone might have to create this integration between RBJ and Facebook….