Posting to Facebook's friend wall - PHP

Hi,

This post is again a continuation of my previous posts related to Facebook Graph API. This one will sum up all the earlier post with a new functionality of posting to your own or friends wall. In this also I will be using the $facebook->api() to post in wall. Click here to download the entire source code.

My current page looks like:

In the above I have a form for updating my Facebook status. When I click the image of my friends a popup comes up and lets me post to that fiends wall as follows:

Code and explanation:

Facebook login - FConnect Graph API (PHP)

Hi,

In this post I will be discussing about Graph API. The most basic use of it is when you want the users to register in your website via their Facebook profile. The advantage of doing that is, it saves all the email authentication, captcha etc validations. It simply fetches the users existing details from what is there in Facebook for that user. The use of Graph API is imense, which I hope to cover in my future post. In this I will be just concentrating on letting the users register in a website using the Graph API.

First and the most important thing, is to create your own App in Facebook. This is a very straight forward process, You just need to enter the App name, and URL. An App can be considered as the gateway between your website and Facebook's data. Follow this link to create a new App. Once you have set up your website you will be given a App ID and secret key. This will be needed in your code. So preserve this information carefully.

Now coming to the code. First click here to download the code. The main aspect of this code is the facebook.php file. This is the PHP SDK for Facebook Graph.

Explanation:

First you need to initialise the Facebook object by the App ID and secret key which you got in the above steps by:

$facebook = new Facebook(array('appId'  => 'YOUR_API_KEY','secret' => 'YOUR_SECRET_KEY','cookie' => true,));