Hello World or “Hello Philippines” like what we always did in other programming language, this is the best way to start our own facebook application development.

The only requirements here is your facebook application name like what we going to use here “Hello Philippines”.

Setting up new application

Go to http://www.facebook.com/developers/?ref=sb and click Set Up New Application button.

Enter you facebook Application Name and Select Agree to Terms & Condition make sure you take time to read it first. Click on Create Application button.

This is the basic information of your application and other configuration is already set to default.

Here you can get your API Key and Secret Key the important information for your application.

Some important information need to insert.

Basic Settings

Description – Brief information of your application
Icon / Logo – Image of your application
Developer Contact Email – Your email address
Help Url – Help file of your application (located at your domain hosting server)
Privacy Url – Privacy Terms of your application (located at your domain hosting server)
Term & Service Url – Your application Terms & Service (located at your domain hosting server)

Click Save Changes button.

Profile Settings

Tab Name - Tab name of your application from user profile
Tab Url - Tab Url
Leave other as default
Click Save Changes button.

Canvas Settings

Canvas Page Url - base url for you facebook app.
Canvas Callback Url - The url from our application or where we host our facebook application source.
Leave other as default
Click Save Changes button.

Please take note of the following:

Facebook doesn’t host or get the copy of our source code or application we only communicate with facebook server to get user’s information and integrate to our application.

For this sample we going to create a Hello Philippines Application that been hosted in our server at http://www.facebookgarage.ph or sub domain http://www.helloapp.facebookgarage.ph/ (note this is the one we need to insert in Canvas Callback URL field).

After we register our application facebook going to provide us API and SECRET key, and it will automatically create Application Profile or Page that can bee add by user and link to our application.

There are three way that we can access our facebook application by Application Page or Profile, Canvas Callback URL http://www.helloapp.facebookgarage.ph/ or by link http://apps.facebook.com/hellophilippines/

After this we can now start our actual development makes sure you take note for API and Secret key that we need in our application configuration.