Facebook Open Platform (fbOpen) is a snapshot of the infrastructure that runs Facebook Platform. It includes the API infrastructure, the FQL parser, the FBML parser, and FBJS, as well as implementations of many common methods and tags. We’ve included samples and some dummy data to help you get started fast. Facebook Open Platform also has extensibility points built in so you can add your own functionality, such as your own FBML tags, API methods, and so forth.

We hope this release is a starting point to help you more easily debug and optimize your applications, build tools that will help other developers and strengthen the ecosystem as a whole, and generally understand Facebook Platform more deeply.

If you find a bug, please submit it to the Facebook Open Platform product category at http://bugs.developers.facebook.com/. We encourage you to give us feedback and to share your thoughts with other developers in the Facebook Platform Developer Forum at http://forum.developers.facebook.com/. Other open source projects that already exist for Facebook Platform are listed at http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Open_source_projects.

What’s Included
The fb-open-platform.tar.gz archive contains the tools necessary to implement Facebook Open Platform — including the API, FBML (Facebook Markup Language), FBJS (Facebook JavaScript) and FQL (Facebook Query Language) — in your own environment. The archive contains the following files and top-level directories:
• A README file.
• An html directory, which contains the framework for the Facebook Open Platform API REST server, an XML schema, and the PHP client libraries for Facebook Open Platform. There are also sample files, for a canvas page and a demonstration of sample FBML tags and API calls in the html/fbopentest directory.
• A lib directory with all the core Facebook Open Platform PHP libraries for the API, FBML, FBJS, and FQL.
• An fbopen_data_dump file, which contains dummy data so you can test using data in a sample database.
• libfbml-1.2.0.tar.gz , which contains the essential libraries for parsing and rendering FBML

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