On the SocialDevelopers.net blog there's a new tutorial posted that helps Zend Framework developers connect their applications to Facebook. This article is the first in a series and talks about one of the simplest integration methods - the iframe.

We are proud to present our first ever tutorial, aimed at helping Zend Framework developers to integrate their iframe applications into Facebook using the new(ish) OAuth for Canvas authentication mechanism. This is the first part in a three part series aimed at building a fully working Facebook Iframe application using the Zend Framework.

The tutorial is posted in a downloadable PDF to you can take it anywhere your code goes for easier reference.

If you're looking for a stripped down, bare-bones look at how to get started with interfacing your PHP script with Facebook, take a look at this quick guide from Emran Hasan.

The new Facebook API has already spread over the application developers and if you're like me, you've already got your hands dirty to see how this new thing works. If you have tried to follow the documentation to authorize/get session in your canvas application, it is likely you have already hit roadblocks. Well, I am no savior but I have glued together a few clues and got it working for myself.

He walks you through the three simple steps: getting the new API, setting ip a correct configuration file and creating a sample "main page" for your application that echoes out a "Hello World" sort of message to each visitor.

As mentioned by the Zend Developer Zone, there's a new tutorial over on the AnyExample.com website that shows how to get up and working with a PHP+Ajax connection in no time flat. The goal? To handle a file upload asynchronously from the user.

This article contains example application (trivial file-sharing service, like rapidshare, megaupload or yousendit) which uses embedded frames (IFRAME) to upload file. While file is uploaded to hidden frame, user can still access web-page and fill "file description" field.

They talk briefly about the PHP functions that will be used in the tutorial and the concept of using IFRAMEs to handle the content coming in (without reloading the page). The rest of the article is a code dump showing the pieces of (procedural) code to get the job done. There's some commenting, but if you're a new coder to PHP, you might want to check out the main PHP site for some more information on the functions used.