Facebook Markup Language: the Dashboard and Action links

[tags]facebook, fbml, apps, reviewsby.us, symfony, sfFacebookPlatformPlugin, plugins[/tags]

Facebook has the concept of the dashboard:

In case the documentation isn’t clear, these are where the top buttons for your app go.

I created the FBMLHelper to help you write links from symfony to facebook.

The dashboard itself is easy to create:

<fb:dashboard>
</fb:dashboard>

The links are fairly simple, but if you use symfony… we like helpers…

So the FBMLHelper has an fb_action method which is similar to link_to:

Will actually render as:

<a href="http://apps.facebook.com/reviewsbyus/">My Dining</a>

Provided the app_facebook_canvas_url is set to your canvas url (for example, our’s is http://apps.facebook.com/reviewsbyus/).

This helper takes care of routing and rewriting the URL to something that will work within Facebook’s canvas.

… so start writing some apps. This plugin will be developed further and I’ll try to publish tutorials whenever possible.