Introduction to Bebo Applications John Maver http www

Introduction to Bebo Applications John Maver http: //www. thoughtlabs. com john@thoughtlabs. com (978) 204 -9239

Overview Parts of a Bebo Application Creating an Application User Management Doorbell Overview The Profile Canvas Page News stories and Invites 2

Parts of a Bebo Application Bebo URL Callback URL Canvas Page Profile Box Invitations News Stories 3

Creating an Application Install the Bebo Developer Application Get a Server Set up your web host Get the Bebo library Create your index. php file 4

Application Settings 5

Sample Index. php require_once "bebo. php"; // Global definitions for your app $app. Visible. Name = "Favorite Birds"; $app. Api. Key = "copy API Key from the developer application page"; $app. Secret = "copy API Secret from the developer application page"; $app. Callback = "http: //myserver. com/favoritebirds "; $app. Bebo. URL = "http: //apps. bebo. com/favoritebirds/"; // Force everyone to add the application. // If they have already added it, then display the page $bebo = new Bebo( $app. Api. Key, $app. Secret ); $user. ID = $bebo->require_add(); // Display the Canvas page display. Page($bebo); // Update the user's profile update. Profile($bebo); // Publish a news story publish. Story($bebo); 6

Advanced User Management All users must add the application to interact Three user states – Just added, Normal user, Removing Using $_REQUEST params to customize Post-Add Handlers change the behavior Handling remove 7

User Management Example // An existing user will have the fb_sig_in_canvas variable set, unless they are removing if (is. Set($_POST) && is. Set($_POST['fb_sig_in_canvas'])) { // Bebo will pass their user id and that they have added the application if ( is. Set($_POST['fb_sig_user']) && $_POST['fb_sig_added'] == 1 ) { $user. ID = $_POST['fb_sig_user']; // If the user has just installed, Bebo will pass installed as a GET parameter if ( is. Set($_GET) && is. Set($_GET['installed']) ) { new. Install($user. ID); } // Normal users will go through here, so display the page $bebo = new Bebo( $app. Api. Key, $app. Secret ); display. Page($bebo); // Update the user's profile update. Profile($bebo); // Publish a news story publish. Story($bebo); } } 8

User Management - continued // If you set up your own post add handler, then you must handle the add request the way you want, // and then redirect back to your Bebo URL. If you don't specify a post add handler, Bebo does this for you. else if ( is. Set($_GET) && is. Set($_GET['installed']) ) { $bebo = new Bebo( $app. Api. Key, $app. Secret ); new. Install($bebo ); $bebo->redirect($app. Bebo. URL); } // If you specify a post remove URL, then Bebo will call it with this POST variable. // After this call, you won't get anything else from this user unless they re-add your application else if ( is. Set($_POST) && is. Set($_POST['fb_sig_uninstall']) ) { $user. ID = $_POST['fb_sig_user']; uninstall. User( $user. ID); } // If the user goes to your callback URL directly, they didn't come in from Bebo, and you will have no information about the user // In most cases, you will just want to force the user to add the application by using require_add. This will force them back through // the existing user path above else { $bebo = new Bebo( $app. Api. Key, $app. Secret ); $bebo->require_add(); } 9

Doorbell Overview - Profile Actions Click to do Mock. Ajax callback Links to friend profiles 10

Doorbell Overview – Canvas Tabs to other Pages Click to do Mock. Ajax callback Navigation Leaderboard 11

Doorbell Overview – Rankings 12

Doorbell Overview – Customize 13

Doorbell Overview – Invite 14

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