Facebook Development
HOW FACEBOOK APPS CAN KEEP YOUR CREDIT SCORING INNARD?
Jul 5th
It is happening now as more and more social beewiggs are tightening their grips on Facebook, they are more and more beaming with high social and business proposition. But within it also lies their affectionate pot boiler social affections that unfortunately are not safe bets for them. They can be vulnerable to the apathetic attitude of the loan providers. As reports says that your activities on social media can have a dampening impact on your credit rating which may make it difficult for you to get a student loan, bond, credit card or any other kind of credit. Isn’t it scary?
Credit scores are bit of cagey, and the method of calculating these three digit number that creates an influence on the mortgage rate, auto loans and even your job prospects are more of profit trade secret. But a plan in Germany to involve Facebook for finding credit scores is an indication in itself that any activity of yours on social media will soon be vulnerable to these mysterious formulas.
Previously Germany’s biggest credit agency, SCHUFA, had plans to involve social networking sites to find out individual’s credit scores. As per SCHUFA, this was supposed to be legalized under German law. But fortunately for Facebook users SCHUFA received much of waited oppositions and they decided to revert back from their decision. No doubt SCHUFA will not have now access to the people’s data on Fac ......
Facebook Open Graph Built in Follow Action For More to Peep into other apps without visits
Jun 28th
Among the much glorified Facebook endorsements, the one to open yet another hypothesis is yet another tool for developers- Open Graph built in Follow action. This tool allows people to pursue the stories they post within their apps through their news feed, timeline and notifications.
The functioning of this software is simple, suppose a user would like to follow a particular restaurant critic who wishes to post he can simply click the “follow button”. If a user follows someone in this manner, he will have a notification indicating that he has successfully followed them and an action will be ultimately shown in the activity box.
Whatever content a person publishes within an app will be shown and displayed on the follower’s news feed even if they are not Facebook friends.
People will have a control on who sees and what is published through the privacy settings of the app.
It is also said that Facebook will never allow custom to follow the actions. Apps which are making use of these actions should shift towards the built in follow feature within a specified period of ninety days.
This built in “follow” action allows users to have updates about the app activity of other users within a Facebook News Feed instead of visiting the apps to know more. For instance, a person might pursue a doctor in his medical app or want to follow his favorite celebrity. Gett ......
Importance of GD Graphics Library in PHP development.
Jun 11th
As a PHP developer, we are all aware of the fact that there are many in-build libraries, functions and constants yet the best among all is the GD Graphics Library. It is a most crucial component as all the requisite tasks in PHP development is possible with the help of GD Graphics Library like converting text into image and resizing of image into any size etc. In addition, we can also create custom image as well as an image in .jpeg, .gif, .png formats respectively
Inspite of all these features in php still there is no library or GD function that can create an animated GIF image from the multiple images.
This post is a short-code as a tip on how the way animated gif image from multiple gif images can be created. You just need to pass an array of image name and time interval for this purpose which will create a gif animated image.
Below are the steps for the same.
1) GIFEncoder.class.php – (Main library class)
2) Index.php – (Return output).
3) Frame – (Directory name that contains images)
GIFEncoder.class.php
Class GIFEncoder {
var $GIF = "GIF89a"; /* GIF header 6 bytes */
var $VER = "GIFEncoder V2.06"; /* Encoder version */
var $BUF = Array ( );
var $LOP = 0;
var $DIS = 2;
var $COL = -1;
var $IMG = -1;
var $ERR = Array (
'ERR00' =>"Does not supported function for only one image!",
'ERR01' =>"Source is not a GIF image ......
Now You Can Show Your Friends Where You Are, Where You were and Where You have been on Your Facebook Indeed
May 8th
In its lineage of lucrative moves, Facebook is yet again planning to make your posts more invigorating with the location strategy with past, present and future tenses. It means users now can share where they are currently present, where were they in the past and where they are going to be in the future? Isn’t it interesting?
The location based strategy is a new way to remain connected and feel connected where ever you are and where ever you have been. When it comes to present, Facebook is very well clear, users can declare where they are now and for the past, Timeline can allow users to place the previous date of whatever it may be on their posts or can also add their old pictures on the map. This all means that Facebook is now going to gather more information on the users’ whereabouts too including where the user had been many years back.
And now with the recent updates, users can tag location to show where exactly they would be in the future. There are also many Open Graph applications that can also allow users to create their list for any plan in the future and even places they would like to visit.
Glan ......
Action Links Again For Facebook Developers to Ingest Users in Facebook Felicity
May 4th
Wanna! Increase your introspective moments of your business days on Facebook? If yes, then this Facebook is all for you to allow you to have more engagement with their newsfeed, Timeline or Ticker. This pushes the growth possibility for each story. For instance, Foursquare added “save this place” link for analyzing the stories and also inducing users to include location when any friends’ activity is seen. As soon a user click on an action link, a story is shared on her Timeline.
Facebook had introduced these action links in 2008 too when developers were taking multiple deeds even for a single story on an app, which could then be linked with a particular location for user to take an action. In fact in 2009 too company created action links as the only way developers could incorporate calls to action within feed stories’. This process was initiated to retain structure and also prevent developers for placing spam messages within the body of a story or in images. Later, Facebook restricted it for allowing for only one action link in each story and finally removed it.
And now action links are playing mosty crucial role for any Open Graph story to take place and developers can have any link for any action on their apps.
These active links are more exciting and lucrative for users as this can allow them ......
Changes in Facebook All of Us should Recognize
Mar 15th
New in Facebook is feasibility for facebook application developers to assist page administration to add their Page Tab apps on their pages. This link can be found in the menu on App Pages linked with Page Tab apps.
If you are a developer at a Tab app, you have the ability to allow your Page Administration to incorporate your app from your App page or through a dialog which can be incorporated on your app or a website. Also have been updated is a Platform App Case Studies section on the developer’s site ensuring you to check out the implementation feature.
In the whole process there is also disparaging of the capability to claim domains with their ID Page. The option for seeking domains lies with an App ID or User ID and prevalent domains that have been claimed too will keep on continuously going for prolonged period. After having domains, owners will have the capability to look into every aspect of the website and also run Domain Sponsored Stories.
Facebook can also make the Python and C # SDK repositories on GitHub private. This storage area is deprecated and might now operate as expected because of changes in auth system.
Earlier, there was also no feasibility for start and end time in events as there was no provision for its support too. Events ought to have start and end time which was par ......
Real Time Updates API for Subscription To Data Changes
Feb 4th
One of the major concerns facing Facebook developers is how they can keep information of pages or users updated with the help of their apps. However, Facebook announced that there are certain practices that surely can bring improvement in the performance of your created apps exclusively on your Facebook.
Generally developers query the Graph API every time the user signs into the apps to gain information and update their records. This creates certain problems and can impact the performance level of the users. Instead it is very important that Real time Updates API are used which have been designed particularly for this purpose and which would permit developers to register themselves for bringing in changes in data on Facebook.
Instead of polling servers, app has the capability to cache data and attain its share of updates whenever there are any changes found in data. As for instance, many apps depend on the location of a user to get and display particular information. This makes it most pertinent that this particular data stays up-to date towards the backend of the app.
These real-time updates permit you to have your subscription on your location field of the user object whenever there is any change in the field. Facebook then can create an HTTP Post request to a callback URL which you have mentioned with the changes.
Subscription of the updates can be made for t ......