As a test I am trying to create the simplest webpage where I can type a short post and have it simultaneously update my twitter account status and my facebook status. I also want to be able to read and display past statuses on this page as well. So basically I am trying to code the simplest example that can push and pull with both twitter and facebook, and eventually not just status updates but all kinds of content from facebook as well. I’ve found some tutorials but they seem to be involving earlier iterations of the frameworks, I obviously would like to use the new facebook open graph api and the newer twitter with oAuth.
My background is in Coldfusion, but it seems (especially with facebook open graph) that PHP might be required to set up what I want, is this true? Also, in order to do this do I have to set up both a facebook application and twitter application, and get the appID’s etc?
I’ve been having a really hard time setting this up and I’m on a bit of a deadline, so if any of you could give me a clear breakdown on what steps I need to go through and sample code to draw off of that would be great.
EDIT::
What I’d really like to do as a test is to make a system that can pull the most recent few posts from all of my social networks. So I would create some kind of base architecture, and then “hook in” my social network accounts to be able to push and pull with my system. This sort of thing might require the ubiquity of PHP anyway, so if there is a good sample PHP project that has the basics of this I’d be interested in seeing that as well.
Thanks!
There’s no requirement you use a particular programming language or platform. Have you looked at RIAForge?
If there’s no off the shelf ColdFusion client, you could do the legwork and develop one yourself. But then again, ColdFusion is Java based, so you just leverage one of the java packages that supports the Open Graph API.
Likewise for twitter, if none of the existing ColdFusion examples suit you, you could always use one of the other libraries.