Day 1: Token Extender

22.09.2014

This was my first day of training at Vocanic, Singapore. I was introduced to the team. They were a friendly staff some having years of experience working with well reputed firms.

Then I had to get familiar with the company. Vocanic is a part of the groupM which is one of the leading marketing firms in the world. Vocanic handles the social media marketing strategies for the clients of groupM. Social media marketing campaigns are done through social networks such as Facebook, twitter, instagram, tumblr, etc.

I had never tried to develop a Facebook application before and this was a whole new experience for me. To be honest I was excited and willing to start ASAP. The Facebook apps have a lot going on behind the scene at the back end. I was told that they develop their apps using PHP mostly with an object oriented approach.

First day I was given the task to create an access token extender for a Facebook application.

Find more about access tokens here:

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens

I created a form with three inputs where you can enter app id, app secret and access token. When a user submit this form it is sent via a php cURL and the extended token will be displayed back on the page.

First I had to understand the use of a cURL and displaying the result back using Ajax. This assignment moved on to the next day.