Links for integrating Flash and Facebook

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Links for integrating Flash and Facebook

Posted by James - 17/06/08 at 05:06:23 pm

Ok, so I’ve been muttering a lot recently about Facebook and Flash. It’s something I’m interested in – because I believe it’s one great way to expose your Flash games to lots of users – but just not something I’ve had time to bring to fruition.

It turns out your basic requirements for integrating Flash and Facebook boil down to this – a server-side solution (asp, .Net, PHP, Ruby etc.) for building webservices, or some form of data service for Flash to work with. Most of the integration actually, will be done with server-side stuff. And then you just need to build a pretty standard Flash application that uses these webservices.

Beyond that fantastically helpful statement, here’s a couple of links to help you on your way;

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About the author: James is a Senior New Media Developer at MMT Digital, and has BA(Hons) in Design for Interactive Media from the University of Gloucestershire. He loves designing and producing all sorts of website and Flash-related things, as well as prattling on about technologies. Day-to-day he works with Flash, Dreamweaver, Director, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and in his spare time he mucks about in Flex and Wordpress. Follow James on Twitter.

June 17, 2008 | In Flash | No Comments