Integration of website with a facebook connect or a facebook api

Question

Is the integration of website with a Facebook connect a difficult task? The website is the place where the users can buy deals posted by the site owner/admin. Please let me know on what task is involved in that and how difficult it is for a programmer. How long will it take for an average programmer?

Answer 1

I think it's a bit difficult, yes, but it's not impossible. It shoud be about 2-5 days to study, understand, make tests and make it works (it also depends on how much you know of the facebook platfrm):

Here is a tuorial I wrote:

http://www.barattalo.it/facebook-connect-tutorial/

it explains how to give the facebook login and how to post on users' wall.

Answer 2

There are multiple good tutorials available. I would say an average programmer (with some familiarity in JavaScript) would be able to do this fairly easily.

• Facebook Connect Wiki
• How to quickly add Facebook Connect

I have integrated Facebook Connect into 2 sites and the time it took varied from 3 days to 2 weeks. The time requirement depends on the size of the application you are integrating. It only took me 3 days to integrate Facebook Connect into a new site which did not have any existing users.

Answer 3

Hi,

I have recently blogged a couple of articles when I was learning facebook connect;

http://www.lordyz.co.uk/tag/facebook-connect/

Hope you find them useful. Please leave comments and follow me on twitter (chrislord) if you do.

Cheers

Chris

Answer 4

Putting in a Facebook connect or login button can be pretty easy now since there are some copy-and-paste solutions out there. If you're looking for a copy/paste solution that does some pretty simple members-only page protection, you can try this Facebook Login tool. It's free and gives some basic analytics, I think.