Wow, that was easy! Thank you Magpie RSS (formerly on Sourceforge) for such a great and easy to use php rss parser. It worked on the first try, as promised.
So now I’ve got an application that will publish to my profile the contents of the recent purchases rss feed. Next step: Automate the feed retrieval.
Bummer, ran into my first problem.
Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘FacebookRestClientException’ with message ‘Incorrect signature’ in /home/.pax/dlifson/socialstartups.com/f8/recentpurchases/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php:378 Stack trace: #0 /home/.pax/dlifson/socialstartups.com/f8/recentpurchases/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php(79): FacebookRestClient->call_method(’facebook.auth.g…’, Array) #1 /home/.pax/dlifson/socialstartups.com/f8/recentpurchases/facebook.php(84): FacebookRestClient->auth_getSession(’4aed0976c07b034…’) #2 /home/.pax/dlifson/socialstartups.com/f8/recentpurchases/facebook.php(75): Facebook->do_get_session(’4aed0976c07b034…’) #3 /home/.pax/dlifson/socialstartups.com/f8/recentpurchases/facebook.php(51): Facebook->validate_fb_params() #4 /home/.pax/dlifson/socialstartups.com/f8/recentpurchases/appinclude.php(6): Facebook->__construct(’200172bb47a151b…’, NULL) #5 /home/.pax/dlifson/socialstartups.com/f8/recentpurchases/index.php(2): require_once(’/home/.pax/dlif…’) #6 {main} thrown in /home/.pax/dlifson/socialstartups.com/f8/recentpurchases/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 378
Got as far as step 15 on http://tperry256.dreamhost.com/f8/tutorial/, lost it at step 16.
Phew. So I’m back. My laptop hard drive died and I lost the password to this admin account, so I’ve been unable to post. But never fear, I finally discovered the “Lost your password?” link and guessed the right username/email combination.
Since it’s memorial day weekend, I’ll be playing around with the coolest thing to hit Tech since… jeez, I dunno, maybe AJAX - Facebook Platform! I’ll be twittering and blogging about my experiences as I figure out what I’m doing. First tip: This looks to be a great tutorial, running through it now. God bless wikis (found via F8 documentation wiki).