title: help starting on setting up facebook application development environment
body: <p>The basic question is, can i make a facbook app using localhost and when its complete then put it on a server. i will be using php.</p>
  
  <p>i wanted to make a facebook app that integrates fully into facebook, pings user every day for input and display results on users requests, and if user wants he/she can publish results, now i have filled the form on facebook. its showing a php page now as sample code, now my question is how will i debug my app while development, now a regular php web site  will be debuged  using apache on localhost. how would that roll out when doing it.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ curl -L http://github.com/facebook/php-sdk/tarball/master | tar xvz
  $ mv facebook-php-sdk-* facebook-php-sdk
  $ cp facebook-php-sdk/examples/example.php index.php
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Appreciate you help</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  // Awesome Facebook Application
  //
  // Name: ********
  //
  
  require_once 'facebook-php-sdk/src/facebook.php';
  
  // Create our Application instance.
  $facebook = new Facebook(array(
  </code></pre>