[jeansymolanza]

How does one get started? Do you guys think it will be a good idea for the site to have a special section for it?

[gabehabe]

First off, you'd start by posting in the right forum.

Moved to web development.

[Sonic88]

I haven't made any but it is my understanding that you use web programming technology sush as ASP, php etc. and the platform is a wrapper for these to integrate into the facebook site. I think it is something like that.

[mocker]

It's really easy to get started with. There are libraries you can download for several popular languages. For example, if you use php, you just download the facebook php script, edit it to put in your developer key and app information, then include it in your main app.

There are kind of two parts to a facebook app, the main application page/site that people get when they click on the link to your app on their menu. This works the same way as an html frame, the app page is its own website running on your server that facebook will call.

The second part is the component users can put on their profile. To figure out what to load, your script makes a call to the facebook api with the username to update, and the html to put in that box.

So if you have a facebook app that displays an image they select, the user can add your application to their page, go to it in the menu. This will make a request to your apps website, which you could have display a list of images to select. The request will contain the userid of the person requesting, so when they select an image, your app sends a call to the facebook api to update the profile badge for user X to display "<img src=http://yoursite.com/images/ImageY.gif>"

I probably made that sound more complicated than it is. I suggest you just download the api for your language and play around with it.