How to start facebook app?

Question

Just want to know what is better way to get start developing faccebook app?Any tutorial recommnedation?And which is better to start up -php or rails?

Answer 1

From my experience, there is a much better support focus on PHP than on anything else. That said, there'd be no point learning PHP just to take advantage of the superior support.

Two other general points:

1. The official support community is really awful. The community has no expert voices and the FB staff only interject when their reputation is at stake. Your best friend is Google and your ability to extrapolate from tutorials.
2. The FB style of interaction doesn't really lend itself to an MVC framework. One might still save you time, but I find they get under my feet. If you need convincing on this point, may I refer you to the many cases where JSON responses are required or where FBML needs to be 'set' for the profile.

The Facebook platform isn't a whole lot of fun and your users won't thank you for your work. But it's a massive audience and a very useful learning experience.

Good luck!

Answer 2

Btw, you can also use ASP.NET, in which case here is how to get started:

http://www.stevetrefethen.com/wiki/Facebook%20application%20development%20in%20ASP.NET.ashx

The link includes a VS.NET starter kit which makes it very easy to get started quickly.

Answer 3

Start with their docs: http://developer.facebook.com/get_started.php?tab=tutorial

There are libraries floating around for lots of different languages and frameworks so I say: whatever you're happiest with is where you should start.