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Integrate Social Sign On in your PHP apps using HybridAuth

Integrating social sign-ons in a web application can become a tedious task because you need to take care of different endpoints, credentials and finally manage the oauth dance to get the access token. However, using HybridAuth package, this task can be easy as pie 🙂 Let’s have a look In this example I will show …

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Here comes Postman, the tiny little app that connects Flickr and Facebook Groups together

We were working to develop a new utility web application for last couple of days which will help us, the photographers, to easily share photos from our flickr photostream to multiple Facebook groups that we are subscribed to. There was a reason why we wanted to develop this app in the first place. Every time …

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Massive security flaw in Facebook and why should they fix it immediately before I take your girlfriend out to dinner tonight

Ok, Facebook Groups has a huge security flaw by which any group member  can pretend to be anyone else in that group, and post in the group on behalf of that user. It is FATAL. I’ve reported to Facebook and I hope they should take immediate action for it. I had disclosed it in details …

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building a nice image gallery like pinterest/friendsheet using facebook graph api and LightBulb

Pinterest has gained lots of attention lately and became popular in the photographer’s and designers community from the very beginning. And once something is popular, people copy (and sometime with improvement) their beautiful user interface ideas into their own project. Last week i’ve seen quite a traction when friendsheet was released. They allow you to …

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Story about Blue E, iFramed Web Application, Wastage of 6 hours, Missed Lunch and what not!

Long story short, I was developing a Facebook page application which runs from inside a page tab. Such applications runs inside an iframe on Facebook Fanpage. Everything was going perfectly, until, we started checking it in IE!! The symptoms were simple, PHP Session is not working when user logs in. The application works perfectly in …

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Working with Facebook events using Graph API, JS-SDK and PHP-SDK – part 1

Graph API from Facebook is a very interesting project based on open graph protocol. Facebook is gradually setting Graph API as the standard and deprecating the use of their old REST based APIs. To start working with Graph API doesnt need an extensive knowledge on how Facebook API works but its always good to have …

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Beginning "Application Development on Facebook Platform"

It was a nice evening with more than 100 tech people and I really enjoyed it. As I’ve said over there, you can download the presentation from the following link. It is a zip file containing a powerpoint 2007 slide of today’s session. Download: Developing Application on Facebook Platform Thank you for coming.