This post is of a geeky nature, feel free to skip it if you're not wearing a propeller beanie. - Ed.

Those of you who have tried your hand with the developer side of Google Friend Connect might have seen The Chow Down application, a sample website that demonstrates how Google Friend Connect can be cleanly integrated into a website with an existing login mechanism. Today, we are glad to announce that this sample is now available in two more languages: C# and PHP. Both the samples have been kept as similar to the original Python sample as possible.

The C# version of The Chow Down has been developed as an ASP.NET website and is compatible with the Mono environment. The latest stable release of its source code is available for download. You may also obtain the source code from the repository.

The PHP release is also available for download and its source code can be found in the repository as well. The PHP version uses the OpenSocial PHP client library to connect to Google Friend Connect.

The source code for both samples are freely available for use under the Apache 2 license.

We hope you like these samples and use them as reference to integrate Google Friend Connect with your websites. Feel free to discuss these samples on the developer mailing list.

Posted by Anash P. Oommen, Google Developer Relations