Developer Mr Small Potato

As the internet is getting popular, people want to interact with webs more easily. Html Form is the main way for users to interact with server side. It can bring a lot of functionalities to web sites such as searching, data storing and different kinds of calculations. However, page involving user inputs also implies users can do something to your page. The page would not know what data the user would give and unsuitable and unexpected data could bring undesired behaviors to the program, poor program could even crash with inappropriate data. As a result, the idea of input checking and validation is important if user input is involved.

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So after I got a bit familiar with the Fackbook APIs and FBML stuff. I suddenly got an idea to place my gamecard of my Xbox Live account into the facebook profile so that someone I know could see I am a live user and add me to their friend list. To be fair, I also set users to put Wii friend code and PSN Ids in the profile too. But since they got no official gamecard, I can only display the ids given. This app is pretty simple, which only includes a form for user inputs and the profile_setFBML() function, which allows the app to set a FBML into the user profile’s application box. To bad the fb:iframe is not allowed in the profile and so I cant use the official gamercard.xbox.com but borrow pictures from mygamercard.net instead. If you want to show your game tags and game cards to your friends, you can try it out at
MyGameTags

Yeah, so I spent quite some time to read about those facebook FBML and API stuffs (not during office hours!!! lol ) and finally made a simple facebook web application. It’s just a simple game of Rock Paper Scissors. I just completed the parts to make it functional and editional features such as leaderboards will be added at a later time.I do not expect a lot of people would add it but letting my friends to play with is happy enough for me. :)
If you guys wanna try out this app, you can visit Rock Paper Scissors

I will post some simple techniques on developing facebook apps when I have time. =)

So I finally face a challenge.
The Facebook library need the json library, which is only available in PHP 5.2.
But 110mb is running PHP 5.1.6, so I cannot use it at all!

Fortunately, I found out someone did a wrapper class to help someone like me!
http://www.boutell.com/scripts/jsonwrapper.html
It is based on M. Migurski’s PEAR JSON library and is furture compatible as it would not run if PHP 5.2 is being used.

Thank you, now I can proceed.

I have finally found a free web hosting with such good features.
Thanks you, guys of 110mb.com!

The thing I want to do at the moment is to develop a Facebook App. And this place provides all the features that allow me to do it. However, I know nothing about the Facebook Development Framework at all, it seems like I still have a lot to do.

So, Mr./Miss Administrators of 110mb.com, if you guys cannot see me around for a while, please don’t just simply remove this lovely place and go away! As I must be working hardly at somewhere else. If you really want to talk to me, just feel free to send me emails!

Probably I have to start working. Let see if I am capable of making something good, which follows my own will.