Facebook Programming: FBML - Discussion Board

Facebook Application Programming Step by step tutorial - part 20. To add a discussion board on the application, you can use the element fb:board. You also can customize the various attributes. Examples like the following:

<fb:board xid="yummie_board" canpost="true" candelete="true" canmark="false" cancreatetopic="true" numtopics="5" returnurl="http://apps.facebook.com/yummietester/discuss.php">
  <fb:title>Discuss About This Application</fb:title>
</fb:board>

Easy way to create discussion board

Here is an explanation attributes the element fb:board:

• xid is most needed parameters. Every board discussion you always have a unique ID value. ID can only contain alphanumeric characters, underscore (_) and hyphen.
• canpost is a parameter to determine whether a user can post a message or not.
• candelete is a parameter to determine whether the user can delete the message or not.
• canmark is feature to mark whether the message is relevant or not.
• cancreatetopic is a parameter to determine whether the user can create a topic.
• numtopics is the number of topics that appear on a page.
• ReturnUrl to determine what the URL displayed when a back link is clicked. The default is the current page.

You can use fb:title element in the fb:board (or fb:comments) to determine the title of the discussion board. So easy, right? You do not bother to write the much code. Content of the message boards has appeared on your application page.

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