Posting on a friend’s wall using the graphics API

Question

Posting messages to a friend’s wall, a graphical API. I have extended publish_stream permission of the user who is using the application.

The code works if I want to post sth on my wall.

is there any way to post on the wall or send a message to all friends of a particular user?

please help thanks!

Below is the code, but it does not work.

$friends = $facebook->api('/me/friends'); foreach($friends['data'] as $friend){ $friendsUserId = $friend['id']; echo $friendsUserId . "</br>"; $result = $facebook->api('/$friendsUserId/feed', 'POST', array( message' => 'Test Message' )); print_r($result); } 

Answer 1

Maybe this will be the way to do it .. (Unverified, but I'm using something similar for my application.)

 $friends = $facebook->api('/me/friends'); foreach($friends['data'] as $friend) { $facebook->api('/$friend['id']/feed', 'post', array( 'message' => 'just a test message', 'link' => 'http://site.com', 'name' => 'just a test name', 'caption' => 'just a test caption', 'description' => 'just a test description', )); } 

This is used by the PHP API .

Answer 2

I just checked a little and, with user permissions, I could really post on the walls of the user's friends via php api:

 $facebook->api('/[FRIEND_ID]/feed', 'post', array( 'message' => 'test message', 'link' => 'http://google.com', 'name' => 'test name', 'caption' => 'test caption', 'description' => 'test long description', )); 

Answer 3

The publish_stream permission allows you to publish content on this particular user wall - you cannot publish all your friends on the wall.

Think of it this way: say that you did not allow the application to publish anything on your facebook wall, but only because one of your friends granted access to its wall - it does not automatically give access to the application for publication on the wall of all its friends .

EDIT

Rahul, I tried last night to log in as I did and send a message on the wall of one of my friends through my application, and surprisingly it worked. I had the wrong impression that you could not do this. My apologies.

But I still can't figure it out. Let me explain

  1) I have my real facebook lets call it abc and a test facebook account xyz which I've added as my friend to abc
 2) I login into my app using my abc faceboook account and publish a message on the wall of my friend xyz
 3) Now I login to facebook.com as abc and it shows on my news feed the message that I published on xyz wall.  When I click on xyz profile - the message shows up on his wall too.  So far so good
 4) Now I log out of facebook.com as abc and log back in as xyz.  But now I dont see the message that was posted through the app on the wall of xyz.

I do not know if there is any delay, but I waited 30 minutes, but still it was not there. But it continues to be displayed at login as abc.

Hope you understand what I'm trying to convey here. I used the same piece of code as yours - so you can try the above scripts and see if you have something like that

thanks

Answer 4

The answer to Gubloo is close.

Posting to a friend’s wall is quite possible, but with one caveat, he said that at some point he said that the friend also went through the “Permissions” dialogue. This means that users of your application will be able to send messages to the wall of other users of your application.

I am going to give you the iPhone code because I don’t know php and think you get the gist. Just replace “me” with the UID of what you are trying to send, whether it be a Friend page or profile.

[_facebook requestWithGraphPath:@"/me/feed" andParams:params andHttpMethod:@"POST" andDelegate:self];

I’m really interested to know if this will give the user the opportunity to publish on the wall anyone who uses the application, and not just his friends.

Answer 5

$ friends = $ facebook-> api ('/ me / friends');

 foreach($friends['data'] as $friend) { $facebook->api('/$friend['id']/feed', 'post', array( 'message' => 'just a test message', 'link' => 'sample link.com', 'name' => 'just a test name', 'caption' => 'just a test caption', 'description' => 'just a test description', )); 

} The code works for me tooooo Thanks for the message