All about Facebook Connect Integration Services

What exactly is Facebook Connect?

It is the latest offering by Facebook through which companies will be able to link their websites & applications to the Facebook platform. Facebook Connect allows user to your website via their Facebook accounts, enabling free registration and single click access to your website. So, there is absolutely no need for ling registration processes.

One can also say that it is an application programming interface (API) resource. By integrating with the Facebook Platform, you benefit in the form of targeting a wider audience that too at very less cost. The thing which makes Facebook an amazing platform is that it makes your business reach to millions and millions of potential customers.

Why should one go for Facebook Connect Integration Services?

There are various benefits of these services the prominent ones are mentioned below –

» With the help of Facebook Connect integration, you have the opportunity to boost up your revenue as you can promote you products and services to millions of people present on Facebook.

» Moreover, people having face book accounts can directly access your website without having the need to go through the website registration process. This definitely boosts your web traffic.

» The best part is face book helps in viral marketing. How? Those who are already on your site and invite their friends and relatives. So, your brand gets promoted in the most cost effective manner.

» In case you are worried about security issues, you need not bother as Facebook requires authentic information from the user during registration. From the user point of view, the client will not have any security problems in visiting your website as the Facebook ID is used. This implies that the user privacy will be similar to that of Facebook.

» Facebook connect allows you to get a new user into your website very quickly. A couple of clicks and that’s all!

» With Facebook Connect you have access to huge data such as birthday, hometown, full name, email, phone number, list of friends, profile picture, work history, of the user. Without it, it’s nearly impossible for a new site to get this data.

How to integrate Facebook Connect?

The Facebook platform contains client libraries for both Java script as well as PHP. The Java script library is hosted remotely on their servers, and is primarily used for installing Connect. The PHP library, is obviously on the host, and is used to get user’s ID, make FQL calls, information, and lot more.

The first thing which we need to do is alter the HTML namespaces for rendering FBML, i.e. the Facebook markup language. You can start wither adding or altering the HTML tag to any page that will pertain to Facebook Connect:

After having done this, bring in the Java script API feature loader by adding this just before the closing body tag.

Now, initiate the connection with Facebook by including the following directly after the feature loader include:

Next, we need a way for Facebook to communicate directly with your site; so, we’ll add their cross-domain communication channel file. Take the following code and place it in a new file called xd_receiver.htm.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” >
<body>
<script src=”http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/XdCommReceiver.js”type=”text/javascript”>
</script>
</body>
</html>

After having successfully connected all the components for Facebook Connect, one has to test the installation by trying to render some FBML. For doing this, we will use the FBML login button – the same button we will use to prompt users to connect to your site using Facebook.

For rendering the element, use the following code:

<fb:login-button></fb:login-button>

In case the installation is successful, you will see the below mentioned button.

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We have helped various clients in smoothly and securely connecting their site to facebook. We have the necessary expertise to link any part of your website to Facebook. This makes it easier for your website visitors to immediately log in to their Facebook Page through your website. Our Facebook Connect Developers also provide the unmatched Facebook API live stream services.

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