See the finished product in action at FacebookSampleApp.com
Meals with Friends requires a web server addressable from the public Internet running PHP with cURL enabled.
Clone the repository from GitHub into a folder inside your website's document root.
git clone git@github.com:fbsamples/web-mealswithfriends.git mealswithfriends
cd mealswithfriends
Initialize and update the Facebook PHP SDK submodule.
git submodule init
git submodule update
Edit the config.php file with the appropriate values for your application, audience, and server.
- Add information from your Facebook application including your app id, secret, and namespace.
- Set your Facebook locale to display JavaScript SDK strings in a language other than English.
- Specify a base URI, including the trailing slash, representing the URI to this directory's content on your webserver. e.g.
http://example.com/ - Specify a static base URI, including the trailing slash, representing the URI to the sample's static content. e.g.
http://example.com/static/if on the same server orhttp://s.example.com/if you choose to serve static files from a CDN or separate hostname.
The Meals with Friends web application allows a visitor to browse a list of meals and view a detail page with more information about a meal of interest.
The Meals with Friends web application paired with a properly configured Facebook application adds identity and sharing features powered by Facebook:
- Share basic Facebook information with your Facebook application through Facebook Login including his or her name, gender, and Facebook profile photo
- Grant your Facebook application permission to publish new Open Graph actions to his Facebook profile on his behalf
- Publish a new custom Open Graph action associated with your application with support for a personal message, tagged friends, tagged place, and explicit sharing
Meals with Friends uses a few external libraries for demonstration purposes. The choice of these libraries for our example should demonstrate general development patterns but should not limit your development using your own language or libraries of choice.
- Bootstrap CSS for a responsive layout adaptive to both desktop and mobile client widths and general CSS template styling; modal JavaScript to assist with showing and dismissing a modal share dialog. Bootstrap is licensed under the Apache License version 2.0
- jQuery JavaScript for DOM selectors, DOM manipulation, layout computations, event handling and general browser abstraction functions. jQuery is licensed under the MIT license
- JQuery UI autocomplete widget to display search results for Facebook friends and Facebook places. jQuery UI is licensed under the MIT license