I want to update the status of a FAN-PAGE by PHP with the help of the Facebook graph api. google says: doesn't work.
Now I want to update my own user status by PHP. My main problem is how to login my own user to the graph api (with PHP), without using a browser and without funny PHP workarounds.
In both cases you need to get publish_stream
permission http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/permissions
This can be done with FB.login()
More information: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication
After that you can just update status with graph api post: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/post
my main problem is how to login my own
user to the graph api (with php),
without using a browser and without
funny php workarounds.
There's no way for you to act on behalf of a user (even your own user) without interacting with him through a browser at least once to get the offline_access
.
How to get the offline_access
permission and how to use it from there onward is explained in this answer.
EDIT:
Please read the comments! thanks @zerkms!
You need several things to update your facebook profile or a page's feed: a facebook application (client_id, client_secret), profile_id, and access_token (publish_stream, manage_pages, offline_access permissions)
You need offline_access because if not, then the access token will expire. If you've read that you don't need offline_access if you already have publish_stream specified, they just meant that you don't need it always.
To publish a post is easy:
$data = array(
'access_token' => $access_token,
'message' => 'status message',
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://graph.facebook.com/{$profile_id}/feed");
Now how to get the profile_id and access_token, you can use my app post panda, or make your own script. I'll include it here:
# arvin castro
# http://codecri.me/
# January 16, 2011
$client_id = ''; # application id
$client_secret = ''; # application secret
$callbackURL = 'http://'; # the URL of this script
$extendedPermissions = 'publish_stream,manage_pages,offline_access';
session_name('facebookoauth');
session_start();
if(isset($_GET['logout']) and $_SESSION['loggedin']) {
$_SESSION = array();
session_destroy();
}
if(isset($_GET['signin'])) {
# STEP 1: Redirect user to Facebook, to grant permission for our application
$url = 'https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/authorize?' . xhttp::toQueryString(array(
'client_id' => $client_id,
'redirect_uri' => $callbackURL,
'scope' => $extendedPermissions,
));
header("Location: $url", 303);
die();
}
if(isset($_GET['code'])) {
# STEP 2: Exchange the code that we have for an access token
$data = array();
$data['get'] = array(
'client_id' => $client_id,
'client_secret' => $client_secret,
'code' => $_GET['code'],
'redirect_uri' => $callbackURL,
);
$response = xhttp::fetch('https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token', $data);
if($response['successful']) {
$var = xhttp::toQueryArray($response['body']);
$_SESSION['access_token'] = $var['access_token'];
$_SESSION['loggedin'] = true;
} else {
print_r($response['body']);
}
}
if($_SESSION['loggedin']) {
// Get Profile ID
$data = array();
$data['get'] = array(
'access_token' => $_SESSION['access_token'],
'fields' => 'id,name,accounts',
);
$response = xhttp::fetch('https://graph.facebook.com/me', $data);
echo '<pre>';
print_r(json_decode($response['body'], true));
echo '</pre>';
} else {
echo '<a href="?signin">Sign in with Facebook</a>';
}
?>
I'm using my cURL wrapper class, xhttp